Quotes About Enlightenment

why not seek to learn more than to earn?

human's life is a struggle between ignorance and illumination.

Padre rico continuó explicando que la vida humana era una batalla entre la ignorancia y la iluminación.

One must travel all the way to the center. To know and hate evil is one path to knowing good.

You know the truth, now. You know that reason alone is not enough. You must ask for grace . .

Si por una emoción muy fuerte se llegan a encender todos los cerillos que llevamos en nuestro interior de un solo golpe, se produce un resplandor tan fuerte que ilumina más allá de lo que podemos ver normalmente y entonces ante nuestros ojos aparece un túnel esplendoroso que nos muestra el camino que olvidamos al momento de nacer y que nos llama a reencontrar nuestro perdido origen divino. El alma desea reintegrarse al lugar de donde proviene, dejando al cuerpo inerte»

The loneliness is the mother of wisdom.

Set foot on the campus and it changes you forever. It's... He paused like he was searching for the right word, something I'd never seen him do before. It's Nerdvana! he finally declared.

Light had dawned in the utter darkness.

Om mane padme om

Humility! The last trap that awaits the ego in search of absolute truth.

Be - don't try to become. Being is enlightenment, becoming is ignorance.

Good and bad, happy and sad, all thoughts vanish into emptiness like the imprint of a bird in the sky.

note the similarities with buddhism a buddhist who has achieved nirvana is not sad primarily because it does not know the concept of sad [...]

Suffering, if it does not diminish love, will transport us to the furthest shore.

It was like a new world opened to me, the world of science, which I was at last permitted to know in all liberty.

It is not good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge.

Soon the day will come when science will win victory over error, justice a victory over injustice, and human love a victory over human hatred and ignorance.

Madness, and then illumination.

This is one of the great social functions of science - to free people from superstition

Our true mentor in life is science.

Science is the process that takes us from confusion to understanding.

If one were not animated with the desire to discover laws, they would escape the most enlightened attention.

Politics and Religion are obsolete. The time has come for Science and Spirituality.