Quotes About Enlightenment

knowledge is power.

Oh, it must be wonderful to be educated. What does it feel like?' 'It's like having an operation,' said Treece. 'You don't know you've had it until long after it's over.

Religious enthusiasm among students is now an embarrassment; belief in the authority of the Bible and the deity of Jesus Christ is treated as naivety to be enlightened rather than life to be nourished. Scholars in the arts, letters, and sciences who show signs of Christian devotion are likely to be shrugged off as simplistic and eccentric.

Ignorance of each other is what has made unity impossible in the past. Therefore we need enlightenment. We need more light about each other. Light creates understanding, understanding creates love, love creates patience, and patience creates unity. Once we have more knowledge (light) about each other, we will stop condemning each other and a United front will be brought about.

Rise above the limited conditions of pleasure and pain, success and failure, happiness and sorrow, that all the countless unenlightened beings in creation are slaves to.

If you seek enlightenment, then career is a very important idea on your agenda. Approach your career from this standpoint and you will have a very different career. You will be successful.

If you have been touched by the success fairy, people think you know why. People think success breeds enlightenment and you are duty-bound to spread around like manure. Fertilize those young minds!

When you develop yourself, you grow humanity.

True freedom comes from continuous self-development.

Enlightenment is not a rocket science, it is the pure awareness of something deep within you that is ageless, formless and undefinable.

Transcendence and transformation of consciousness will create a new reality for humanity—not our economic success.

Constantly seek knowledge and increase your knowledge base- that will take you to the next level.

Clarity enables Empowerment

Higher thoughts lead to a higher life.

In sorrow and suffering, go straight to God with confidence, and you will be strengthened, enlightened and instructed.

Imparting education not only enlightens the receiver, but also broadens the giver - the teachers, the parents, the friends.

A good teacher teaches people how to see, not what to see.

In this very breath that we take now lies the secret that all great teachers try to tell us.

Teachers must be celebrated for moving civilization from ignorance to enlightenment, from apathy to responsibility.

I regard Heart-Master Adi Da as one of the greatest teachers in the Western world today.

You can't buy enlightenment, but you can hire a mirror so you can watch it happen.

If you sit with an enlightened teacher and silent your mind as they go into nirvana, suchness, the pure power of their aura will bring you on a journey into the world of perfection.

More important than finding the teacher is finding and following the truth of the teaching.

You are not given the light by anyone—not even by a spiritual teacher. You are that light.