Quotes About Enlightenment

When a person's mind is blind, all senses are useless not alone eyes.

He that knew all that learning ever writ, Knew only this - that he knew nothing yet.

True set you free.

If we drink from the fountain of wisdom, We thirst for its waters e'ermore.

Lo que necesitamos —dijo Koehn— es sabiduría, porque la información... no es igual al conocimiento, y el conocimiento no es igual al entendimiento, y el entendimiento no es igual a la sabiduría...

Educated men are as much superior to uneducated men as the living are to the dead.

The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.

Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.

The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living differ from the dead.

Fear is the lengthened shadow of ignorance.

I do believe that humans are destined to be released for a more ennobling life

In Acharya's words, "The moment you realize the Self, you know that you are the Self, you are not the body. You know that you are the infinite Truth. That recognition, that realization is sannyasa.

The goal of the last phase of life is to drink from the chalice of life's deepest secrets. But to be able to do that requires study and work on philosophical and theological matters, which happens in the years of vanaprastha. You can't just show up and expect to be enlightened; that would be like showing up to the Olympics without ever having trained as an athlete.

The only solution to this problem is to shed my attachments and redefine my desires. To do so is my path to enlightenment—and my second curve.

I will not be afraid because I understand ... And understanding is happiness.

It is a puzzling thing. The truth knocks on the door and you say, 'Go away, I'm looking for the truth,' and so it goes away. Puzzling.

Quality is the Buddha.

Let me put it this way: There is nothing in Islam that is fundamentally against the quest for knowledge.

If I can bring some light to bear on problems like that, I feel that people will be enlightened not only on the question but also on a way of approaching such questions.

An apt quotation is like a lamp which flings its light over the whole sentence.

In the Muslim world, I had seen that men with white complexions were more genuinely brotherly than anyone else had ever been. That... was the start of a radical alteration in my whole outlook about 'white men.'

There is no doubt that religion had already waned under the onslaught of the Enlightenment, but it was Freud who provided the radically new understanding of human nature that made any religious explanation of the whats and whys of our personhood seem naive.

If I had a dozen lives, one of them would involve really getting off the rails in India, heavy into meditation.

Correcting it, I don't know; just shedding the light of day on it is a first major step, being one of the earliest generations not to just accept the words.