Quotes About Enlightenment

enlightenment was merely the truth at the correct time.

The wisest man takes the shortest path to peace with himself.

For it is said, one may ask of the Elderlings, but what they answer may not be the question you ask, but the one you should have asked.

I once read that people who study others are wise but those who study themselves are enlightened".

It's very simple -- I got smacked up the side of the head and all your bullshit fell out and some sense seeped in.

Within our own way, we all know the answers to the questions that we seek … it is quite simple. We have the knowledge before we come here to our earthly existence. We have been given the way forward and the answers that we need; we just have to look deep within ourselves and know that they are there. Similar to reading hidden messages that are encrypted, we have only to uncover the meaning of the code to unlock a vast amount of knowledge and information. Ben

Meditation is the key that opens the door to all the knowledge and understanding in life—certainly to our current lives and also to the many other lives we have led before. What

A burrito is a delicious food item that breaks down all social barriers and leads to temporary spiritual enlightenment.

Ignorance is bliss was bull. Melody had been ignorant her whole life, and things were far from blissful. It was time to give knowledge is power a try.

For the odd thing about wisdom is the more you use it the more it grows; and the more you share, the more you gain. You'd be amazed how few understand that.

Fear dims when you learn things

Fear dims when you learn things -Alys

It may be true that every enlightened sage is insane, but it does not necessarily follow that every insane person is an enlightened sage!

Perhaps a creature of so much ingenuity and deep memory is almost bound to grow alienated from his world, his fellows, and the objects around him. He suffers from a nostalgia for which there is no remedy upon earth except as it is to be found in the enlightenment of the spirit--some ability to have a perceptive rather than an exploitive relationship with his fellow creatures.

Suddenly a knowledge came upon me.

Candide by Voltaire

I am one who lives to learn.

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Upon walking into Eva's kitchen, something profound happened to Delphine. She experienced a fabulous expansion of being. Light-headed, she felt a swooping sensation and then a quiet, as though she'd settled like a bird.

Most folks stay in the dark and then complain they can't see nothing.

It's ever been the way of the man of science or philosophy. Most folks stay in the dark and then complain they can't see nothing.

Understanding requires a release from understanding.

He drew from under the table a sheet of strangely scented yellow-Chinese paper, the brushes, and slab of India ink. In cleanest, severest outline he had traced the Great Wheel with its six spokes, whose centre is the conjoined Hog, Snake, and Dove (Ignorance, Anger, and Lust), and whose compartments are all the heavens and hells, and all the chances of human life.

There is no sin as great as ignorance. Remember this.