Quotes About Enlightenment

I've always thought that when they say ignorance is bliss, the converse to that is that knowledge is hell. The more you know, the bleaker things can get.

To fly as fast as thought, you must begin by knowing that you have already arrived.

To realize that you are not your thoughts is when you begin to awaken spiritually.

My favorite book in life is 'A Wrinkle In Time,' which I read before high school. It was my first introduction into the meeting of science and spirit and the universe and big thoughts and all of those interesting New Age-y concepts. It made everything make sense to me and opened up my mind.

Longing for Heaven won't help you to make the most of this lifetime, the one you have now. Especially if you're interested in Spiritual Enlightenment, don't treat this precious human life like some pathetic kind of consolation prize.

Wise people have always taken a passionate interest in how they spend their time. What's an essential skill now, for Seeking Enlightenment in the Age of Awakening? Do 20 Daily Minutes of Technique Time, neither more nor less.

What some folks might call, "Feeling relaxed and mellow" is NOT Spiritual Enlightenment.

Every experience of spiritual awakening strengthens our sense of self. As we continue to evolve spiritually, and especially once we cross the threshold of Enlightenment, each of us spontaneously lives with a sense of self that is constant, dependable, and true.

What accounts for the appeal of energy talk? Perhaps trying to prove how much you know about the spiritual nature of life. Ironically, a person who's really in Enlightenment has absolutely nothing to prove.

Amazing Earth School can be a world of illusions or a world of reality. Which will it be for you? The answer depends on your discernment, and then how you use your freedom of choice. Definitely you can give yourself a chance to pursue — and attain — Spiritual Enlightenment.

SOPHISTICATED about consciousness and energy? If you're seeking Enlightenment now, protect yourself by developing a more sophisticated kind of discernment about that.

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He quoted Saint Jerome's praise that learned men were like stars in the heavens, and the prophet Daniel's that they shine like the sun. "All evil is born from ignorance," he wrote. "Yet writers have illuminated the world, chasing away the darkness, especially those authors from ancient times."35

The time has come to realize that supersensible knowledge has now to arise from the materialistic grave.

This is like the joke where the guy climbs the mountain and asks the guru, 'What is the secret of life?,' and the guru says, 'All is One,' and the guys says, 'Are you kidding?,' and the guru says, 'You mean it isn't?

There is no sin greater than ignorance.

There is no sin so great as ignorance. Remember this.

You go from village to village on your horse asking everyone, "Has anyone seen my horse?"

In each moment the fire rages, it will burn away a hundred veils. And carry you a thousand steps toward your goal.

Ignorance is God's prison. Knowing is God's palace.

Knock, And He'll open the door Vanish, And He'll make you shine like the sun Fall, And He'll raise you to the heavens Become nothing, And He'll turn you into everything.

You sit here for days saying, This is strange business. You're the strange business. You have the energy of the sun in you, but you keep knotting it up at the base of your spine. You're some weird kind of gold that wants to stay melted in the furnace, so you won't have to become coins.

A secret freedom opens through a crevice you can barely see.