Quotes About Enlightenment

being of the knower, there is a corresponding

Aldous Huxley

Truth! Truth! Truth! crieth the Lord of the Abyss of Hallucinations

40. My adepts stand upright; their head above the heavens, their feet below the hells. 41. But since one is naturally attracted to the Angel, another to the Demon, let the first strengthen the lower link, the last attach more firmly to the higher.

Awake from dream, the truth is known: awake from waking. The truth is: The Unknown

If Osiris, Christ, and Mahomet were mad, then indeed is madness the key to the door of the Temple.

Must not understanding lie open unto wisdom as the pyramids lie open to the stars? (6:2)

the definition of the Great Work itself, the aim of the Yogi [is] to consummate the marriage of all that he is with all that he is not, and ultimately to realise, insofar as the marriage is consummated, that what he is and what he is not are identical

Y así transcurría el tiempo, en aquellos días finales de un Siglo de las Luces que parecía haber durado más de trescientos años, por las tantas y tantas cosas que en él habían acontecido.

One of the most despicable religious fallacies is that suffering is ennobling, that it is a step on the path to some kind of enlightenment or salvation.

Lo capì d'improvviso, con la velocità fulminante con cui si comprendono alle volte, molto tempo dopo, cose che sono sotto gli occhi da sempre, solo a saperle guardare.

There may be no book on the mothers of poets, or artists in general, but it might one day be written and would be, I think, an enlightening read.

Learning is not the accumulation of knowledge, but rather, one thing only: understanding

Lauren calls this one Revelation.

Mercury Dawn Walker stepped out of the green mist that floated around her body. She was perfecting the art of walking from dimension to dimension

And thou who thinkest to seek for me, know thy seeking and yearning shall avail thee not, unless thou know this mystery: that if that which thou seekest thou findest not within thee, thou wilt never find it without thee

Es su derecho de nacimiento tener una vida poderosa, pacifica y significativa. Aunque pasar por momentos dolorosos y obstaculos es una manera de lograr la madurez espiritual, no es la unica. Usted verdaderamente puede lograr la iluminacion con una vida pacifica, porque usted ya esta iluminado ahora mismo.

Todos estamos en el camino del descubrimiento de que somos uno con Dios. Cuando entendamos esto por completo, estaremos en el estado de ascension.

I'd take the awe of understanding over the awe of ignorance any day.

The purpose of consciousness—any consciousness—was to achieve infinite comprehension.

There is one other possibility to explain the oddity of the Enlightenment thinkers ending up so prominently in the firing line of our era. And that is this: The European Enlightenments were the greatest leap forward for the concept of objective truth. The project that Hume and others worked away on was to ground an understanding of the world in verifiable fact. Miracles and other phenomena that had been a normal part of the world of ideas before their era suddenly lost all their footholds.

The mandalas were meant to be objects of contemplation, aids to meditation, their proportions magically balanced to purify and calm the mind. To stare at a mandala was to experience, if only briefly, the nothingness that is at the heart of enlightenment.

This is why so much of the discussion about "modernity" and "postmodernity" is just pretentious. What we call Enlightenment modernity was just the period when our public authorities fell into unbelief. Postmodernity is when they discovered that unbelief is a slippery place, and they fell into it deeper.