Quotes About Enlightenment

Delusion (moha) means mental darkness: the thick coat of insensitivity which blocks out clear understanding.

Who is like the wise man? Who knows the explanation of things? Wisdom brightens a man's face and changes its hard appearance

I'm always trying to find brain food and indulge in knowledge that's gonna be useful.

Watching television is like taking black spray paint to your third eye.

This is the material, by the way, that has kept me virtually anonymous in America for the past 15 years. Gee, I wonder why we're hated the world over? Look at these fat Americans in the front row - 'Why doesn't he just hit fruit with a hammer?' Folks, I could have done that, walked around being a millionaire and franchising myself but no, I had to have this weird thing about trying to illuminate the collective unconscious and help humanity. Fucking moron.

What are you reading for?

Lift me up out of this illusion, Lord. Heal my perception, so that I may know only reality.

We are a nation that is unenlightened because of religion. I do believe that. I think religion stops people from thinking. I think it justified crazies.

The Tao that is seen Is not the true Tao, until You bring fresh toner.

The willingness to grow is the essence of all spiritual development.

I know with all my heart and soul that God lives. I believe He will enlighten our lives with His love for each of us if we strive to be worthy of that love, in the holy name of Jesus Christ, amen.

Jesus said, 'The Kingdom of Heaven is within you.' I think if he lived nowadays, instead of 'kingdom,' he would have said, 'dimension.' And 'heaven' refers to a sense of vastness or spaciousness.

If God dropped acid, would he see people?

I always love to look at something that I couldn't make, because I feel it's enlightening. It means you are not invincible: you can respect something and look up to it and go, 'Wow!' It's a skill that I don't have, but I can understand the merit of it.

Blinding ignorance does mislead us. O! Wretched mortals, open your eyes!

He that knew all that learning ever writ, Knew only this - that he knew nothing yet.

When a man becomes a writer, I think he takes on a sacred obligation to produce beauty and enlightenment and comfort at top speed.

A writer's job is to give the reader a larger vision of the world.

Against the mutability of dream, the natural laws advocated by our bewigged Enlightenment forebears are powerless. Newton, for instance, insists on gravity and other prohibitions of the physical world, from which (while we are awake) we are never free. But we can fly in dreams.

You ask me whether the Orient is up to what I imagined it to be. Yes, it is; and more than that, it extends far beyond the narrow idea I had of it. I have found, clearly delineated, everything that was hazy in my mind. Facts have taken the place of suppositions - so excellently so that it is often as though I were suddenly coming upon old forgotten dreams.

Here is true immorality: ignorance and stupidity; the devil is nothing but this.

lo que nos demuestra, de paso, que los sacerdotes han estado siempre sumidos en una ignorancia ignominiosa, en la que se esfuerzan por hundir con ellos a los pueblos.

My God is the God of Socrates, of Franklin, of Voltaire, of Beranger! My credo is the credo of Rousseau!

univers venait tout à coup de s'élargir. Elle était le point lumineux où l'ensemble des choses convergeait