Quotes About Enlightenment

Spiritual bypassing often adopts a rationale based on using absolute truth to deny or disparage relative truth.

An enlightened society is one where the culture encourages time for self-awareness, belonging, and connection. An enlightened society would actually foster cultural and social relationships to help commuters find their way home. It

Lord, give me wisdom, not knowledge. Or rather the knowledge that leads to wisdom and true happiness and not the kind that leads to power.

Write about what you don't know about what you know.

Pourquoi ne pas profiter des contrepoisons de la civilisation, les bons livres.

Pravé umÄ›ní", kÃ…â"¢i?el Mistr, "je bezú?elné, bezcílné!

penetrating into the spirit of the Great Doctrine.

It is generally admitted that Dhyana Buddhism, which was born in India and, after undergoing profound changes, reached full development in China, to be finally adopted by Japan, where it is cultivated as a living tradition to this day, has disclosed unsuspected ways of existence which it is of the utmost importance for us to understand.

But he who has it, said the Master with a subtle smile, would do well to have it as though he did not have it.

Drinking from the beautiful chalice of knowledge is better than adorning oneself with gold and rare gems.

It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question.

It is often said that the more spiritual a person becomes, the more unassuming they are. Eventually, they vanish entirely.

Money is the wise man's religion

Wisdom-loving" translates philosophos. (If I dared, I'd translate it "wannabe-wise" as opposed to sophos, "having smarts," skillful.)

Buddhism needs its fucking Nietzsche --

The main object of religion is not to get a man into heaven, but to get heaven into him.

Religion can never reform mankind because religion is slavery.

Of all the religions, I am most partial to Buddhism.

You've got to protect the system of secular faith in the Constitution and the Bill of Rights and Enlightenment values. That way, you can protect all religions.

If you are kept in ignorance of the true way and permit yourself to rely upon and be guided by the opinion of imperfect man, you can never gain the riches that will bring you peace and lasting happiness.

The United States is truly remarkable, a nation founded on a set of Enlightenment ideals so beautifully expressed by the Declaration of Independence and codified in the U.S. Constitution. We should feel good about our ideals, even when we don't quite manage to live up to them.

To remove ignorance is an important branch of benevolence.

If we remove ourselves from the world, we are pretending that we can follow our own individual enlightenment and let the rest of the world go to hell, so to speak.

One of the Age of Enlightenment's most hypnotic images is Ledoux's rendering of his neoclassical theater of 1775 - 1784 in Besancon, surreally reflected in the colossal eye of an unidentified cosmic being.