Quotes About Enlightenment

Anything that gives us new knowledge gives us an opportunity to be more rational.

Rational thought will always trump medieval dogma.

The Christian image of God is that of a rational being who believes in human progress.

Dad was a difference maker. He reached out to people. He took them by the awe and wonder we feel over the most important questions we can think to imagine. He pulled them away from blind faith, away from pseudoscience, toward a deeper, richer understanding of the universe.

I really love idiot, enlightened characters - these characters who fail to engage with the drama of their immediate circumstances; they fail to be reactive and enrolled by drama as it happens around them.

Educate yourself: Read up on current events and books.

Through reading the scriptures, we can gain the assurance of the Spirit that that which we read has come of God for the enlightenment, blessing, and joy of his children.

The real meaning of enlightenment is to gaze with undimmed eyes on all darkness.

Knowledge is the real power.

All bad qualities centre round the ego. When the ego is gone, Realisation results by itself. There are neither good nor bad qualities in the Self. The Self is free from all qualities. Qualities pertain to the mind only.

Education broadens our horizons and enables us to confront realities we'd never before anticipated.

There's a powerful appeal in the 'I didn't know that' effect. I love it when people say, 'Gosh, I didn't know that.'

In the East, the guru never calls himself a guru.

there is hope. That's the marvelous thing about being human. We can change our future. We need not be enslaved by the experiences of the past. We can learn to love even when we have not received love.

That's the marvelous thing about being human. We can change our future. We need not be enslaved by experiences of the past. We can learn to love even when we have not received love.

There is a way of living in the world that is not here, although it seems to be. You do not change appearance, though you smile more frequently. Your forehead is serene; your eyes are quiet.

I need to bring my illusions to the truth instead of giving truth to my illusions.

You save the world by concentrating on your own forgiveness lessons.

When men see Han-shan They all say he's crazy And not much to look at - Dressed in rags and hides. They don't get what I say And I don't talk their language. All I can say to those I meet: Try and make it to Cold Mountain.

Spring-water in the green creek is clear Moonlight on Cold Mountain is white Silent knowledge—the spirit is enlightened of itself Contemplate the void: this world exceeds stillness.

WE SHALL SEE WHO KNOWS HOW TO BE

Non-knowing is not a form of ignorance but a difficult transcendence of knowledge.

Wait. So what am I supposed to do now? You know, Jin, I would have saved myself from five hundred years' imprisonment beneath a mountain of rock had I only realized how good it is to be a monkey. (222-223)

To find your true identity within the will of Tze Yo Tzuh...that is the highest of all freedoms.