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Quotes About Enlightenment

Knowledge is the eldest daughter of wisdom.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
An ounce of wisdom is worth more than a pound of knowledge.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Three kinds of people achieve illumination: those who learn, those who teach, and those who do both continuously.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Knowledge is the path, understanding is the way, wisdom is the highway, and enlightenment is the destination.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
The ignorant learn from none, the simple learn from some, the intelligent learn from many, but the enlightened learn from all.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Helping yourself is common sense, helping others is virtue, helping yourself and others is enlightenment.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
If you think you're enlightened go spend a week with your family.
~ Ram Dass
Egotism is such a terrible disease, in the love of duality, they do their deeds.
~ Guru Gobind Singh
Meditate like Christ...He lost himself in love.
~ Neem Karoli Baba
I tried to make sense of the Four Books, until love arrived, and it all became a single syllable.
~ Yunus Emre
Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.
~ Arthur Rimbaud
Only those who overflow with love will build the happy and enlightened world of the future.
~ Fethullah Gulen
In this world Hate never yet dispelled hate. Only love dispels hate. This is the law, Ancient and inexhaustible.
~ Gautama Buddha
The thing we tell of can never be found be seeking, yet only seekers find it.
~ Bayazid Bastami
Love, consciousness, and creativity are the highest refinements of the cosmic evolutionary force.
~ Alex Grey
One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.
~ Carl Jung
Reading books everyone died, none became any wise. One who reads the word of Love, only becomes wise.
~ Kabir
There is a field beyond all notions of right and wrong. Come, meet me there.
~ Rumi
Do not be small minded. Do not pray for gourds and pumpkins from God, when you should be asking for pure love and pure knowledge to dawn within every heart.
~ Ramakrishna
"What is love?"; "The total absence of fear," said the Master; "What is it we fear?"; "Love," said the Master.
~ Anthony de Mello
Sit with those who love Allah, for that enlightens the mind.
~ Umar
Spirituality means to put your evolutionary process on fast-forward.
~ Jaggi Vasudev
No one lights a lamp in order to hide it behind the door: the purpose of light is to create more light, to open people's eyes, to reveal the marvels around.
~ Paulo Coelho
Love is a fleeting emotion, to reach true nirvana one must know themselves and forsake love, for it breeds contempt
~ Gautama Buddha