Quotes About Enlightenment

As I remember it, the fog-like substance that clouded my brain finally vanished as if blown away by the wind.

The idea of rebirth is also reflected in biographies of the Buddha. The Buddha experiences a variety of previous births, during which he practices his religious discipline and appears as a perfected being. The J?takas , tales of the Buddha's former lives, relate how he amasses great numbers of virtues. In some of them, he is shown as having been born previously as a monkey or a deer.

A buddha's mission is to rescue living beings trapped in the worlds of transmigration. A buddha appears in the world as a result of his aspiration toward enlightenment in former existences and his accumulation of various kinds of practice in a single world system (or, some say, in a trichiliocosm, described in chapter 4). ??kyamuni, th Buddha who appeared in India, was one such buddha.

That man's gaga," said Roger when they were out of hearing. "He's so far gone he's coming back.

Is there light in Gorias?

God appears and God is light, to those poor souls who dwell in night, but does a human form display, to those who dwell in

Beatus homo qui invenit sapientiam,

Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.

We are so accustomed to classifying judgments, arguments and deeds in terms of morality that we forget how relatively new the notion was in the culture of the Enlightenment.

Metaforen är ett av tankens väsentligaste verktyg. Den belyser vad som annars skulle ligga helt i mörker. Men denna belysning blir ibland så klar att den bländar istället för avslöjar.

And the knowledge that humanity was not alone in the universe would be as relevant to most as the knowledge that protons were built of quarks.

Sometimes I attract roles that are necessary either for personal growth or enlightenment.

All phenomena are empty.

The new world economic order is not an exercise in philanthropy, but in enlightened self-interest for everyone concerned.

If you see a philosopher determining all things by means of right reason, him you shall reverence: he is a heavenly being and not of this earth.

While confronting the problems of the present, I often find myself thinking back to the world of books as it was experienced by the Founding Fathers and the philosophers of the Enlightenment.

The really explicit phrase is doors of perception.

We still need to feed the public, both physically and intellectually.

I found that there were things that God could reveal to me that I could never get myself physically.

Seeing the bigger picture opens your eyes to what is the truth.

The more enlightened our houses are, the more their walls ooze ghosts.

There is an army of the informed wanting to be more informed.

What gunpowder did for war the printing press has done for the mind.

People can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned.