Quotes About Enlightenment

A person who does not read is no better than one cannot read.

Actually, it isn't a secret at all. It was first promulgated by some of the earliest wise men, and it appears again and again throughout the Bible. But very few people have learned it or understand it. That's why it's strange, and why for some equally strange reason it virtually remains a secret.

We all walk in the dark and each of us must learn to turn on his or her own light.

Enlightened persons to not allow the sultry urges of the sub-conscious mind to influence the thoughts of their soul. -They condemn selfish urges as irresponsible. And do not regard their sense of responsibility as morbid. Rather they feel that it is a sign of a spiritually healthy mind.

Death is a stripping away of all that is not you. The secret of life is to "die before you die" --- and find that there is no death.

Being spiritual has nothing to do with what you believe and everything to do with your state of consciousness.

They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night. In their gray visions they obtain glimpses of eternity; and thrill; in waking; to find they have been upon the verge of the great secret.

How much longer are we going to think it necessary to be American before (or in contradistinction to) being cultivated, being enlightened, being humane, and having the same intellectual discipline as other civilized countries?

I saw and heard, and knew at last The How and Why of all things, past, and present, and forevermore.

into the darkness they go, the wise & the lovely

Into the darkness they go, the wise and the lovely.

In three months Ron read more than he had in his entire previous life. He felt his mind widen, his perceptions become more acute, for each book was a prism refracting the infinitely varied truths of experience. Some were telescopes; some microscopes.

Try not to seek after the true Only cease to cherish opinions. (172)

Buddhist tradition, in fact, distinguishes two classes of people, the "common worldlings" and the "saints" (arya), who occupy two distinct planes of existence, respectively known as the "worldly" and the "supramudane." The saints alone are truly alive, while the worldlings just vegetate along in a sort of dull and aimless bewilderment. Not content with being born in the normal way, the saints have undergone a spiritual rebirth, which is technically known as "winning the path.

In the century of Kepler, Galileo, Descartes, Pascal, and Newton," one historian wrote, "the most versatile genius of all was Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz.

In the most general sense of progressive thought, the Enlightenment has always aimed at liberating men from fear and establishing their sovereignty. Yet the fully enlightened earth radiates disaster triumphant.

Avoid what is evil; do what is good; purify the mind—this is the teaching of the Awakened One [Buddha].

Immediately there fell from his eyes as it had been scales.

To whom hath the root of wisdom been revealed?

I go for refuge to the Buddha.I go for refuge to the Doctrine.I go for refuge to the Order [of monks].

The wise still seek Him.

Wisdom exalteth her children, and layeth hold of them that seek her.He that loveth her loveth life.

He discovereth deep things out of darkness, and bringeth out to light the shadow of death.

Before you can break out of prison, you must first realize you're locked up.