Quotes About Enlightenment

After a while, he is learning, even total darkness is not quite darkness.

What light shines at night! He never knew. Light will blind him.

A light emerges, a light not kindled

Firelit rooms lined with books - these are the places in which important things happen.

'Psychedelic' means mind-expanding.

In the past, great communicators were great orators, but great communicators today sound conversational, and interrupting is common in conversation. And public discourse is now more about entertainment than enlightenment.

I believe that politicians have a public trust to further debates about important issues. I firmly believe that every public debate holds the prospect of enlightenment.

I continually get more information about a subject after the book has been published.

If a book isn't teaching me something, pulling something out of me, then it will be dull for me and the reader.

I think ignorance is not bliss at all. It just makes me want to punch somebody.

If your mind is pure, all buddha-lands are pure.

It's about really having a God connection: a connection with the divine behind the world and flowing forth out of that in a positive way with love and moving toward making a contribution that pushes forth the evolution of the world.

A rooster crows only when it sees the light. Put him in the dark and he'll never crow. I have seen the light and I'm crowing.

I don't want to be part of ideas which are regressive and put us on the back foot.

It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.

Education is freedom.

We need education across the board on all fronts.

I think that books are fundamentally educational.

'The Magic Flute,' I think, is fundamentally asking what is it to change people's consciousness.

Une tête bien faite et une tête bien pleine (kepala yang baik adalah kepala yang penuh dengan ilmu pengetahuan

I felt that I was hearing the answer to a question that I hadn't known enough to ask.

Open my eyes to see the wonderful truths in your instructions. . . . Keep me from lying to myself. . . . Help me abandon my shameful ways. . . . I believe in your commands; now teach me good judgment and knowledge.

There are many degrees of sight and many degrees of blindness. What senses do we lack that we cannot see another world all around us?

The more I find out, the more I realize that I don't know what's going on. How fortunate that you have discovered the way of wisdom, Leto said.