Quotes About Enlightenment

We're all damned, she said, "but some of us have taken off our blindfolds and see that there's nothing to see. It's a kind of salvation.

And she said such strange things! To her own mother she had said—without warning "Woman! do you ever look inside? Do you ever look inside and see what you are not? God!" she had cried sinking down again and staring at her plate, "Malebranche was right: we are not our own light. We are not our own light!

You found out more when you left where you lived. He had found out already this morning that he had been made by a carpenter named Jesus Christ. Before he had thought it had been a doctor named Sladewall ....

All things make sense; you just have to fathom how they make sense.

Learning is finding out what you already know.

The fire which enlightens is the same fire which consumes.

Being able to take control of my life again, take control of what I'm eating and my fitness is enlightening and empowering.

I think the most harmful belief passed on to me - not always directly - was the belief that whatever I did as a Negro, however much we Negroes achieved, despite the presence of some enlightened whites, white society as a whole enjoyed being racists in the secret core of their being and would never, ever give that up.

There are three classes of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.

He who walks in the eightfold noble path with unswerving determination is sure to reach Nirvana.

He who gives away shall have real gain. He who subdues himself shall be free; he shall cease to be a slave of passions. The righteous man casts off evil, and by rooting out lust, bitterness, and illusion do we reach Nirvana.

Arithmetic! Algebra! Geometry! Grandiose trinity! Luminous triangle! Whoever has not known you is without sense!

Whoever knows that the mind is a fiction and devoid of anything real knows that his own mind neither exists nor doesn't exist.

Whoever realizes that the six senses aren't real, that the five aggregates are fictions, that no such things can be located anywhere in the body, understands the language of Buddhas.

Beyond a certain point, the whole universe becomes a continuous process of initiation.

There is no teacher, living or past, who can give us the actual understanding of Truth. A teacher can only put our feet upon the path and point the way. That is all. It is wholly dependent on the individual to make his way to Truth.

Why would anyone walk through life satisfied with the light from the candle of their own understanding when, by reaching out to our Heavenly Father, they could experience the bright sun of spiritual knowledge that would expand their minds with wisdom and fill their souls with joy?

Often pagans, with their eyes wide open, do not see very clearly.

Culture is the widening of the mind and of the spirit.

If we were to compile a list of the ways in which the United States has made both itself and the wider world a better place, then at or very near the top would be its commitment to universal education.

Religions have always stressed that compassion is not only central to religious life, it is the key to enlightenment and it the true test of spirituality. But there have always have been those who'd rather put easier goals, like doctrine conformity, in place.

Once upon a time, not so very long ago, men thought that the earth was flat, and that where earth and heaven met, the world ended. Yet when they finally set sail for that tremendous place, they sailed right through it, and found themselves back again where they had started from. It taught them only that the earth was round. It might have taught them more.

Spiritual experiences are described as 'selfless,' 'timeless,' 'placeless,' 'thing-less' and 'higher,' ... they are nonverbal and so difficult to talk about — and, if talked about, confuse the listeners and sometimes even put them off.

This landmark book shines new light on things we thought we understood. —Charles Swencionis