Quotes About Enlightenment

You must form the habit of living in the fourth dimension, "The World of the Wondrous." It is the world where you do not judge by appearances. You have trained your inner eye to see through failure into success, to see through sickness into health, to see through limitation into plenty. I will give to you the land which your inner eye sees. "I will give to you the land which thou seeth.

How long should one remain in the dark?", asks Author Florence Scovel Shinn. "Until one can see in the dark", she cleverly answers.

Know the Truth and the Truth gives you a sense of freedom, soon then comes the actual freedom on the external.

A well cultivated mind is made up of all the minds of preceding ages; it is only the one single mind educated by all previous time.

I say to my congregants, "If you believe in God, the best thing you can do for yourself is to suspend your belief for a while, because undoubtedly your God is too small and you must grow beyond that God. On the other hand, if you don't believe in God, your very disbelief is a stumbling block. Kick it away and place your faith in somehting more ennobling than disbelief. Take a flier. Expand your purview. Take a leap of faith.

While mankind tends toward evil, the legislators yearn for good; while mankind advances toward darkness, the legislators aspire for enlightenment; while mankind is drawn toward vice, the legislators are attracted toward virtue. Since they have decided that this is the true state of affairs, they then demand the use of force in order to substitute their own inclinations for those of the human race.

As soon as the injured classes have recovered their political rights, their first thought is not to abolish plunder (this would suppose them to possess enlightenment, which they cannot have), but to organize against the other classes, and to their own detriment, a system of reprisals—as if it was necessary, before the reign of justice arrives, that all should undergo a cruel retribution—some for their iniquity and some for their ignorance.

According to their degree of enlightenment, these plundered classes may propose one of two entirely different purposes when they attempt to attain political power: Either they may wish to stop lawful plunder, or they may wish to share in it. Woe to the nation when this latter purpose prevails

Ignorance est mère de tous les maux.

In the search for understanding and awakening we are drawn to those teachings that convey the deepest wisdom with the greatest beauty.

The Holy Spirit illuminates the minds of people, makes us yearn for God, and takes spiritual truth and makes it understandable to us.

Reading the Bible has a purifying effect upon the heart and mind. As you read, the Holy Spirit will enlighten the passages for you.

If you are ignorant of God's Word, you will always be ignorant of God's will.

In your own mind-darkened, will-paralyzed, conscience-dulled soul, God can make the light penetrate and turn the darkness of your own life into day, if you will let Him.

It is far better to know God's truth than to be ignorant of it.

Arrogance is a great obstruction to wisdom.

Thus, the standard library will serve as both a tool and as a teacher.

I'm no fucking Buddhist, but this is enlightmentment

Any man who is attached to the senses and to the things of this world, is one who lives in ignorance and is being consumed by the snakes which represent his own passions.

The true insight after all is love. It clarifies the intellect, and opens the eyes to much that was obscure.

Reason is the slow and torturous method by which those who do not know the truth discover it.

Those who do not hate their own selfishness and regard themselves as more important than the rest of the world are blind because the truth lies elsewhere

When you smoke the herb, it reveals you to yourself.

Light up the darkness.