Quotes About Enlightenment

What is dark within me, illumine.

Contemplation places us in a purity and radiance which is far above our understanding.

Without a spiritual wakefulness to divine purposes and connections in all things, we will not know things for what they truly are.

We do not know ourselves aright, Until we have the Father's light. We think we know ourselves and groan, Until we know as we are known

Though blue sky and the road's yellow dust and the green of the nearing oasis were all snuffed out, he (newly converted Saul) did not miss them. Light suffused his blinded eyes, his mind.

If we are not informed we will become deformed

To furnish the means of acquiring knowledge is ... the greatest benefit that can be conferred upon mankind. It prolongs life itself and enlarges the sphere of existence.

The second fundamental error of Buddha consists in his placing human excellence in meditation rather than in action. The hero with him is always a saint, never a king.

There is always need of persons not only to discover new truths, and point out when what were once truths are true no longer, but also to commence new practices, and set the example of more enlightened conduct, and better taste and sense in human life.

There have been, and may be again, great individual thinkers, in a general atmosphere of mental slavery.

Knowledge once gained casts a light beyond its own immediate boundaries.

If you have to ask that question, you wouldn't understand the answer.

The human race is at war. Our biggest enemy, pure and simple, is ignorance.

Forget about enlightenment. Sit down wherever you are And listen to the wind singing in your veins. Feel the love, the longing, and the fear in your bones. Open your heart to who you are, right now, Not who you would like to be. Not the saint you're striving to become. But the being right here before you, inside you, around you. All of you is holy. You're already more and less Than whatever you can know. Breathe out, touch in, let go.

We are not just humans learning to become buddhas, but also buddhas waking up in human form, learning to become fully human.

As our island of knowledge grows, so does the shore of our ignorance.

Unfortunately, this original Christian vision of universal equality and freedom was soon obscured by Christians themselves. What happened, to cut a long story short, is that Christians almost from the beginning lacked the spiritual enlightenment and will of character to break with the existing social systems. Instead of reaffirming people's new freedom in Christ, they gradually fell back into an acceptance of the pagan world views of their own culture.

Between the brutality that would sacrifice a single innocent life to a fear without a name, and the enlightenment that would sacrifice thousands of lives to a fear that we have named, I have found little to choose.

Don't you sometimes wish that you had been born into the Age of Reason, instead of into the Age of the Ostensible Reason?

Knowledge is simply a kind of fuel; it needs the motor of understanding to convert it into power.

I was in yoga the other day. I was in full lotus position. My chakras were all aligned. My mind is cleared of all clatter and I'm looking out of my third eye and everything that I'm supposed to be doing. It's amazing what comes up, when you sit in that silence. "Mama keeps whites bright like the sunlight, Mama's got the magic of Clorox 2."

Before men can be truly wise, they must realize their dependence upon God, and be filled with His wisdom.

We can receive of heaven's light only as we are willing to be emptied of self.

The effort to grasp the great truths of revelation imparts freshness and vigor to all the faculties. It expands the mind, sharpens the perceptions, and ripens the judgment. The study of the Bible will ennoble every thought, feeling, and aspiration as no other study can. It gives stability of purpose, patience, courage, and fortitude; it refines the character, and sanctifies the soul.