Quotes About Enlightenment

When was it I realised that, on this truly dark & solitary path we all walk, the only way we can light is our own? Although I was raised with love, I was always lonely. Someday without fail, everyone will disappear, scattered into the blackness of time. I've always lived with that knowledge rooted in my being.

Meditation is cultivating the potential to transcend your limited self, limited beliefs and limited existence. It is stepping into the exciting territory of limitlessness.

No one and nothing outside of you can give you salvation, or free you from the misery. You have to light your own lamp. You have to know the miniature universe that you yourself are.

those of us who wish to draw near to God should not be surprised when our vision goes cloudy, for this is a sign that we are approaching the opaque splendor of God. If we decide to keep going beyond the point where our eyes or minds are any help to us, we may finally arrive at the pinnacle of the spiritual journey toward God, which exists in complete and dazzling darkness.

The great wisdom traditions of the world all recognize that the main impediment to living a life of meaning is being self-absorbed.

Seek not to follow in the footsteps of the men of old; rather, seek what they sought.1 —Gautama Buddha

The greater your integrity, the more the many gates of knowledge and the real truths of existence will be revealed.

The cure for sorrow is to learn something.

Books are carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. They are engines of change, windows of the world, lighthouses erected in the sea of time.

Man himself was the formulator of the impossible Christian ideal and tried to uphold it, if not live by it, for more than a millennium. Therefore it must represent a need, something more fundamental than Gibbon's 18th century enlightenment allowed for, or his elegant ironies could dispose of.

the two lights of the world.

Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature is dumb, science is crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. They are engines of change, windows on the world, lighthouses erected in the sea of time.

Is there not A tongue in every star that talks with man, And wooes him to be wise?

If you knew the meaning of light you would yourself be a light in a dark place.

Great doubt: great awakening. Little doubt: little awakening. No doubt: no awakening. —Zen mantra

In the cold light of day, what seemed like a moderately ridiculous notion has become... surprisingly... possible.

I'll come to you with gifts of knowledge, wisdom and truth.

The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.

The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.

The first step towards true enlightenment is to lighten up on yourself.

These classes, according to the degree of enlightenment at which they have arrived, may propose to themselves two very different ends, when they thus attempt the attainment of their political rights; either they may wish to put an end to lawful plunder, or they may desire to take part in it.

The realization of ignorance is the first act of knowing.

Realization that is beyond characteristic or designation is marvelous!

But deluded people don't realize that their own mind is the Buddha. They keep searching outside.