Quotes About Enlightenment

As we become spiritually enlightened and technologically advanced, the role of sex and gender can only diminish. Sex will be a thing of dark ages

You British plundered half the world for your own profit. Let's not pass it off as the Age of Enlightenment.

I personally believe in progress. I think one of the most debilitating and harming things you can do to a child is to keep them in the dark.

If on the one side we do not harbor the illusion that the entire proletariat must be enlightened before it can be called into battle, so on the other we do not doubt that as much enlightenment as possible must be produced with oral and printed agitation.

The more you learn, if you learn it properly, the more clear you become and the more you know.

I don't think that our Founders would believe that America could long prosper if the people were not readers.

Wisdom lies in clarity.

When you bring consciousness to anything, things begin to shift.

I have left behind illusion,' I said to myself. 'Henceforth I live in a world of three dimensions - with the aid of my five senses.' I have since learned that there is no such world, but then, as the car turned out of sight of the house, I thought it took no finding, but lay all about me at the end of the avenue.

there something you know and

Tú lee todo lo que puedas. Reúne cultura. Cuanta más, mejor. Para que no caigas al agujero en el que están cayendo muchos en este país.

Today I suddenly experienced an absurd but quite valid sensation. I realized, in an intimate lightning flash, that I am no one. No one, absolutely no one.

I never had anyone I could call "Master". No Christ died for me. No Buddha showed me the right path. In the depths of my dreams no Apollo or Athena appeared to me to enlighten my soul

O homem não difere do animal senão em saber que o não é. É a primeira luz, que não é mais que treva visível. É o começo, porque ver a treva é ter a luz dela. É o fim, porque é o saber, pela vista, que se nasceu cego. Assim o animal se torna homem pela ignorância que nele nasce

We all live far away and anonymous; disguised, we suffer as unknowns. For some, however, this distance between oneself and one's self is never revealed; for others it is occasionally enlightened, to their horror or grief, by a flash without limits; but for still others this is the painful daily reality of life.

Today, suddenly, I reached an absurd but unerring conclusion. In a moment of enlightenment, I realized that I'm nobody, absolutely nobody.

O que é certo é que entre um homem vulgar e um macaco há menos diferença que entre um homem vulgar e um homem realmente culto.

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Wise is the one who does not seek.

Flashes of awareness that we live an illusion – that, and no more, is what distinguishes the greatest of men.

A grain of knowledge with the dawning of the day is a breakfast of the mind.

It does not take much to make us realize what fools we are, but the little it takes is long in coming.

Some of us have taken off our blindfolds and see that there's nothing to see. It's a kind of salvation.

Vi är allesammans fördömda, sa hon, men somliga av oss har tagit av oss ögonbindlarna och sett att inget finns att se. Det är en slags frälsning.