Quotes About Enlightenment

Therefore understanding that rests in what it does not understand is the finest.

Jos haluaa näyttää oikeaksi sen, minkä ne kieltävät, tai vääräksi sen, minkä ne myöntävät, ei ole parempaa keinoa kuin käyttää järjen valoa.

Quand on a compris ce que sont le commencement, la noblesse, l'intelligence, la transformation, l'infiini, la foi et la sérénité, alors on a atteint la connaissance suprême.

Little understanding cannot come up to great understanding; the short-lived cannot come up to the long-lived.

Knowledge is knowing a basket, wisdom is not putting water into it.

A writer's thoughts can act as an Aladdin's lamp, which can enlighten and open the mind of a reader, by showing opportunities and beauties of life.

Education is a process of unlearning and learning.

Reading is a beautiful prayer for knowledge.

Schooling gives you knowledge, but education makes you wise.

True education kindles the student's mind but teaching fills the mind with information.

You're looking for the light, forgetting you have an astonishing light, inside you, which can enlighten the whole world.

You will be transformed by what you read.

I was very afraid at the beginning, until Master told me that pain isn't the truth; it's what you have to get through in order to find the truth.

There is no holy life. There is no war between good and evil. There is no sin and no redemption. None of these things matter to the real you. But they all matter hugely to the false you, the one who believes in the separate self. You have tried to take your separate self, with all its loneliness and anxiety and pride, to the door of enlightenment. But it will never go through, because it is a ghost.

The secrets of alchemy exist to transform mortals from a state of suffering and ignorance to a state of enlightenment and bliss.

The direction of life is from duality to unity.

The way of peace is a soul journey. . . . If you can live from the level of your soul, you are doing something very special. The important thing is how much consciousness you add to the whole of human existence, for that is how eternity expresses itself, like a lamp shining through the window of eternity.

The possibility of stepping into a higher plane is quite real for everyone. It requires no force or effort or sacrifice. It involves little more than changing our ideas about what is normal.

Without transcendence, life has no beauty.

You can also transcend the seeds of your karma by becoming independent of it. The way to do this is to keep experiencing the Self, your spirit, by going into silent meditation and coming out again. This is like washing a dirty piece of cloth in a stream of water. Each time you wash it, you take away a few stains, and it gets a little cleaner.

Suffering contains a hidden spiritual message. It exists until the message is heard.

Everyone was asleep, totally unconscious about their true nature.

Mature spirituality requires sobriety of awareness.

The mystery of Buddha's cure is this: What you seek you already are.