Quotes About Enlightenment

The Conference of the Birds,

God had already made me realise that His mercy does not grow weary of waiting for some souls and that He enlightens them only slowly. So I took good care not to anticipate Him.

There is no barrier so strong as that of ignorance.

I am moonlighting for the Buddha.

The Kingdom of Heaven is not a place, but a state of mind.

Transforming the human experience of aging into spiritual enlightenment in the service of peace on Earth.

Philosophers] are like a traveler passing through a field at night who in a momentary lightning flash sees far and wide, but the sight vanishes so swiftly that he is plunged again into the darkness of night before he can take even a step-let alone be directed on the way by its help.

For as the aged, or those whose sight is defective, when any books however fair, is set before them, though they perceive that there is something written are scarcely able to make out two consecutive words, but, when aided by glasses, begin to read distinctly, so Scripture, gathering together the impressions of Deity, which, till then, lay confused in our minds, dissipates the darkness, and shows us the true God clearly.

Having once adopted us and enlightened our minds by his Word, he keeps the torch of the Word blazing before our eyes, that we may in faith keep our minds upon the judgment and punishment of evil which the impious confidently ignore.

Men will not turn to Christ for light until they know this world as darkness and themselves so profoundly blind. Let

What makes us happy makes us wise

George MacDonald, Andrew Jackson Davis, Swedenborg.

The things that make us happy," he said, "make us wise.

The Enlightenment dared us to think, but there will always be a religion and a God for those who wouldn't dare.

Secular intellectuals, poor things, cannot win for losing. Even as contemporary philosophers move more and more beyond the modernist, critical, and reductionist habits of thought that grew up in the old Enlightenment, which was keyed to the old new science, the new technologies have simply created the opportunity for a new religious imagination.

Do not intend to make a buddha.…

The zazen I speak of is not learning meditation.

We've come into this life fully equipped as a buddha, an awakened being, and we'll go out fully equipped as a buddha, realized or not.

Zen is a special transmission outside the scriptures, no reliance on words and letters, a direct pointing to the human mind, the realization of Buddhahood.

transcendence of both unenlightenment

you begin to realize that The Mountains and Rivers Sutra is not a sutra about mountains and rivers, but rather that the mountains and rivers are themselves the sutra.

Fundamentally, Zen is a way of seeing clearly who we are and what our life is, and a way of living based on that clear vision.

An educated person is the person who has the power to go on and get more education.

knowledge is the most powerful thing on earth, harvest it and use it wisely