Quotes About Enlightenment

I am not looking for a thing ; I am searching for a spiritual experience .

On commence par savoir, ensuite on comprend, enfin seulement vient la Connaissance.

a single instant of total presence was worth the reading of all the texts, all the poets, all the philosophers.

There is neither transcendence nor purification.

Can that be called perfect knowledge . . . If one is not released while enjoying the pleasures of sense? 2 sings Saraha, one of the Buddhist masters who lived sometime between the second and seventh centuries.

In short, to empty the mind means 'to polish the mirror', thereby permitting clear reflections of external phenomena and spontaneous insights into the true nature of reality.

Once one has experienced emptiness, he is not likely to fall back to egoic thinking, unless he has an impulse to ignorance.

La ciencia nos ofrece una nueva visión del mundo que ha liberado el espíritu humano, o al menos tiene el potencial de hacerlo. Lo más importante de la ciencia es la ciencia misma, es decir, la forma de proceder que nos ha acercado a un profundo entendimiento de cómo es el mundo.

Spiritual masters claim that the insights obtained from the 'original mind' in deep meditation cannot be conveyed in terms of rational thought and language, which are products of an entirely different, much narrower mode of consciousness. Only through persistent personal practice may one come to experience the awareness of 'original mind' and tap the vast trove of primordial wisdom and spiritual insight it holds.

La pasarela de personajes que desfilaron durante estos agitados años es fascinante: Voltaire, el escritor que revolucionó las mentes; Jean-Jacques Rousseau, el suizo que habló de un nuevo pacto social; Montesquieu, el barón que defendía la separación de los poderes y la de los negros109; Georges-Jacques

Boswell spent much of the evening lamenting his country's dreadful politics. Isherwood listened attentively. Inwardly, however, he wondered why it was that enlightened Americans always found it necessary to bash their country whenever they set foot in the mother ship. "I'm

I don't doubt that at the dawn of martial arts, the main goal was to beat up one's opponents in the most effective way possible. But then, indirectly, the alchemy of martial arts began to strike some chords deep within the spirit of many individuals, transforming living war-machines into poets, artists, and philosophers.

nothing good will ever come from people who are more familiar with the dust of the library than with the light of the sun.

the reading of many books brings wisdom, and the reading of one brings ignorance armed with rage and hatred.

Let nothing keep you separate from the truth. The soul, illumined from within, longs to be known for what it is.

Consider your origins: you were not made to live as brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge.

He felt like somebody had taken the lid off life and let him see the works.

Après l'âge des légendes vient l'âge des ténèbres. Comme un fÅ"tus qui évolue. Puis vient l'âge de la sagesse – bien que certains mondes ne parviennent jamais à sortir de l'âge des ténèbres.

There are at least four essential elements composing the foundation of the enlightenment process: purification, concentration, effort, and mastery.

The process of purification is based on the idea that our essential nature is already pure, and enlightenment is the inborn condition of life.

Enlightenment does not end with an attainment; it is a continuous unfolding.

They fed him a diet made up entirely of knowledge.

Revelation also comes in receiving greater understanding of the endowment as one seeks to comprehend its meaning.

Nicholas Turgenev in his Russia and the Russians in 1847 eloquently restated the classical enlightened arguments for constitutional monarchy; but this was the voice of an old man writing in Paris.