Quotes About Enlightenment

the British Empire now stood at the very apex of modern civilization, and that it was the special burden of this empire to spread its enlightenment—whether through commerce, the Bible, the gun, or some combination of all three—to the world's less fortunate cultures and races.

Enlightenment is man's exit from his self-incurred immaturity. Immaturity is the inability to make use of one's intellect without the direction of another…. 'Sapere aude! (Dare to know!)' … 'Have the courage to make use of your own intellect!' is hence the motto of enlightenment" (Kant 1784/2006, 17).

Oh." The boy winced. "Oh!" "Oh-ho-ho!" Chains reached out and slapped the boy on the shoulder. "Enlightenment! When it comes, it comes like a brick to the head, doesn't it?

I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened in order that you may know the hope to which he has called you. (Eph. 1:18 NIV)

I am a moment illuminating eternity....I am affirmation...I am ecstasy.

Disease an never be conquered, can never be quelled by emotion's willful screaming or faith's symbolic prayer. It can only be conquered by the energy of humanity and the cunning in the mind of man. In the patience of a Curie, in the enlightenment of a Faraday, a Rutherford, a Pasteur, a Nightingale, and all other apostles of light and cleanliness, rather than of a woebegone godliness, we shall find final deliverance from plague, pestilence, and famine.

A real enlightened teacher is intense and they could care less what you think about anything at any time since you are lost in illusions.

The first time I took LSD, it just blew everything away. I had such an incredible feeling of well-being.

The Enlightenment view of mankind is a complete myth. It leads us into thinking we're sane and rational creatures most of the time, and we're not.

I didn't really understand that Vipassana is a relatively new form of Buddhism that was based on the storage of pain. So the idea is that every time you don't scream, that's your Buddhist side.

I desire to see the time when education, and by its means, morality, sobriety, enterprise and industry shall become much more general than at present.

I froze in time! And I thought, "My God... I'm free!"

We are living in enchanted time. With our spirits right.

I didn't find Jesus. He's been there the whole time.

We may experience a realization of our true Self the first time we meditate, but most often the process of awakening is gradual.

The atmosphere of our time is fast being cleared of the fumes and deadly gases that arose during the carboniferous age of theology.

Delusion will vanish as the light becomes more and more effulgent, load after load of ignorance will vanish, and then will come a time when all else has disappeared and the sun alone shines.

My mom lived on an ashram on the early eighties. She turned me on to kundalini yoga and chanting and Transcendental Meditation. That was the first time I ever knew real peace.

At one time I thought that if I could really understand renunciation and bodhichitta from the depths of my heart, then, for this lifetime that would be enough.

No country and no people can be free and ignorant at the same time.

Ignorance, according to the Buddha, is our basic difficulty. Psychedelics and the process of aging make that clear to me all the time.

So, little by little, time brings out each several thing into view, and reason raises it up into the shores of light.

Choosing not to read is like closing an open door to paradise

Did you think you had educated the superstition out of those people?' 'I certainly did think it.' 'Well, then, you may unthink it.