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Quotes About Enlightenment

The idea that reincarnation means all beings eventually reach enlightenment is not true. Life does not have a fixed purpose. It just is.
~ Frederick Lenz
You must live the life of a saint. You have no choice because to do anything else is to enter into the human kingdom, which is a land of unfulfilled opportunity.
~ Frederick Lenz
Inner life is Divine.
~ Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
The Enlightened one has told you in never-to-be-forgotten words that this little span of life is but a passing shadow, a fleeting thing.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
This watchfulness, this witnessing is the ultimate secret of creating a religious life, of creating a life of transcendence, a life of spirituality, of enlightenment, of buddhahood.
~ Rajneesh
Intelligent life on a planet comes of age when it first works out the reason for its own existence.
~ Richard Dawkins
The goal of life is god realisation.
~ Sivananda
Ignorance is death, knowledge is life. Life is of very little value, if it is a life in the dark, groping through ignorance and misery.
~ Swami Vivekananda
There is no time of life past learning something.
~ Ambrose
The group of stupid people collectively treats or makes an intelligent amongst them look like duffer and a fool living in a big network of enlightened minds even starts behaving sensibly in life.
~ Anuj
The most important thing about translucent people is that their life has been deeply transformed by an awakening.
~ Arjuna Ardagh
There is one great and universal wish of mankind expressed in all religions, in all art and philosophy, and in all human life: the wish to pass beyond himself as he now is.
~ Beatrice M. Hinkle
Thomas Jefferson wrote that "If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.
~ Edward L. Glaeser
The most dangerous worldview is the worldview of those who have not viewed the world.
~ Edward O. Wilson
Like the sunlight and the firelight that guided our birth, we need a unified humanities and science to construct a full and honest picture of what we truly are and what we can become.
~ Edward O. Wilson
Peace without knowledge of the cause of that peace is still ignorance.
~ Edward Weiss
If any teach NIRVÂNA is to cease, Say unto such they lie. If any teach NIRVÂNA is to live, Say unto such they err.
~ Edwin Arnold
No problem can be solved at the same level of consciousness that created it." This
~ Edwin Harkness Spina
Bigotry dwarfs the soul by shutting out the truth.
~ Edwin Hubbel Chapin
A notion and recognition of human equality indeed enlighten humanity significantly, which builds and strengthens a bridge of justice, rights, respect, and harmony in society; otherwise, distinctive perception and injustice prevail.
~ Ehsan Sehgal
Be sure I meet not others for the business or affairs, but for gaining knowledge that builds authentic insight and foresight; indeed, it is that fragrances and enlightens the character and life.
~ Ehsan Sehgal
Coming out from Yourself is a glorious victory of victories and enlightening knowledge.
~ Ehsan Sehgal
Education delivers nothing if you do not educate yourself.
~ Ehsan Sehgal
Everyone learns every day as its capability on every step.
~ Ehsan Sehgal