Quotes About Enlightenment

"I do not want to get material life, do not want the sense-life, but something higher." That is renunciation. Then, by the power of meditation, undo the mischief that has been done.

To go from mortal to Buddha, you have to put an end to karma, nurture your awareness, and accept what life brings.

Figuring out our gifts in life is part of our journey to becoming enlightened human beings.

If you have the courage to touch life for the first time, you will never know what hit you. Everything man has thought, felt and experienced is gone, and nothing is put in its place.

The sweetest path of life leads through the avenues of learning, and whoever can open up the way for another, ought, so far, to be esteemed a benefactor to mankind.

One of the strongest feelings you can get in life--one of the most rewarding feelings--is the feeling of an "Aha, I finally understand."

The Buddhists say that wisdom may be attained by reaching the three marks. The first is an understanding of the absence of self. The second is an understanding of the impermanence of all things. The third is an understanding of the unsatisfactory nature of ordinary experience.

The Buddhists say there are 121 states of consciousness. Of these, only three involve misery or suffering.

Sri Ramakrishna said, Do not seek illumination unless you seek it as a man whose hair is on fire seeks a pond.

A visitor asked the old monks at Mount Athos what they did all day and was told: We have died and we are in love with everything.

The Buddhists say there are 121 states of consciousness. Of these, only three involve misery or suffering. Most of us spend our time moving back and forth between these three.

The way of the sacred,

It is impossible to make people understand their ignorance, for it requires knowledge to perceive it and, therefore, he that can perceive it hath it not.

Ignorance is the world's most curable affliction.

The words of Plato in the third book of the Republic are as follows: " Truth, said Socrates, is to be specially cultivated.

A religious awakening which does not awaken the sleeper to love has roused him in vain.

Once you've read too many trashy best-sellers, you begin to look for something with substance, something that attempts to define the universe.

To work problems out for yourself, to find you own way out of ignorance, to know the pleasure of knowing - these things improve the quality of life. Unfashionable, even impractical, but true.

The capacity to see and—equally so—blindness are not divisible. The critical faculty of the human mind is one: To believe one can be seeing internally but blind as far as the outside world is concerned is like saying that the light of a candle gives light only in one direction and not in all. The light of the candle is reason's capacity for critical, penetrating, uncovering thought.

Žinojimas išlaisvina žmog?, bet padaro j? nelaiming?.

La Ciencia es la Luz, (..) Trae ilustración y conocimiento a la gente que antes vivía en la oscuridad. Para que las colecciones de arte, las curiosidades y las casas de fieras pudieran llegar a ser útil, y no solo diversión.

The healthy person, the true individual, the self-realized soul, the real man, is the one who has transcended himself.

For centuries man lived in the belief that truth was slim and elusive and that once he found it the troubles of mankind would be over. And here we are in the closing decades of the 20th century, choking on truth.

the Master's warning that we should not practice anything except self-detaching immersion.