Quotes About Enlightenment

If you practice a little jnana yoga in your daily life, it will help you tremendously.

Enter into the plane of mental development. Start to increase your personal power level. Your life will become quite wonderful and very happy. You move beyond delusion.

The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds.

The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth.

the archbishop endeavored to prevail on Mr. Wishart to recant; but he was too firmly fixed in his religious principles and too much enlightened with the truth of the Gospel, to be in the least moved.

May God us keep From simple vision and Newton's sleep. —William Blake[xxvii]

28.12 But where shall wisdom be found?....

The evangelical commitment is to take the text at face value while resisting our culture's post-Enlightenment inclination toward skepticism. God must remain free to act in our world in improbable ways. The evangelical task is to assess accurately, with literary and theological sensitivity, what the face value of the text is, even if the result departs from traditional assessments.

Reading's the means by which the lowest man can lift himself from a state of ignorance.

The improvement of understanding is for two ends: first, our own increase of knowledge secondly, to enable us to deliver that knowledge to others.

It is one thing to show a man that he is in an error, and another to put him in possession of truth.

The light which enlightens us bathes the whole of creation but it enters us through a narrow aperture

St John of the Cross,

In a seven-tone scale the eighth note is the octave, twice the pitch of the first note, and so signals the movement to a new level. This may be why, in religious symbolism, the eighth step is often associated with spiritual evolution or salvation.

There are few earthly things more beautiful than a university ... a place where those who hate ignorance may strive to know, where those who perceive truth may strive to make others see.

We are aware of yoga only as a technique to gain physical strength, flexibility, or increased health. And indeed these are potent side effects of the practice. But that is what they are: side effects. To focus on these largely insignificant manifestations is to miss the point entirely.

only then did I wake out of the book.

The minds of some human beings are as moles, grubbing in the earth for worms. They have no eyes to see God's sky with the stars in it.

I said I was looking for the temple of the saints, in order to find myself. He told me I didn't need the temple, he would show me all I needed to know. Here is what it takes, he said, and he set his burden on the ground and stood straight. "But what do I do when I go home? I asked. Simple, he said. When you go home you do this—and he put the burden back on his shoulder.

The more one understands the world...the harder it is to obtain Buddhahood." Dakpo to Shan

The path to knowledge follows many strange turnings.

Once you absorb the maths, it's all perfectly clear.

I felt as if I had been navigating a vast space by touch alone, groping in the darkness, and suddenly I could see.

Even given my limited knowledge of the vast span of Terran history, terrible crimes seemed terribly commonplace and didn't usually lead to enlightenment.