Quotes About Enlightenment

Modern psychology has pointed to the need of educating people to use a much larger portion of the mind. Transcendental meditation fulfills this need. And it can be taught very easily.

The process of my transformation came to a head with my discovery of St. Francis of Assisi during a pilgrimage I went on with a scout troop from my school.

All wrong-doing arises because of mind. If mind is transformed can wrong-doing remain?

The greatest hypocrisy on the planet right now is for those who defend capitalism to not be in favor of radical transparency, for all of us to know who owns everything. And that is my militant, radical, moderate, pro-capitalist, pro-Enlightenment, ferocious stand.

The spiritual path is very, very easy for a man of determination, patience, endurance, self-sacrifice, dispassion and a strong will.

A knowledge more secret than the Svara Yoga, a wealth more useful than Svara Yoga, have never been found.

So I have an extravagant God with extravagant language to make me an extravagant person-in wisdom. To this end, we pray that God will show us now why we really need the word of wisdom and how we may be in a place in which we will surely know it is of God.

And in knowing that you know nothing, that makes you the smartest of all.

Man must rise above earth to the top of the atmosphere and beyond, for only then will he fully understand the world in which he lives.

My belief is that to have no wants is divine.

There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.

Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.

The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.

The greatest blessing granted to mankind come by way of madness, which is a divine gift.

The highest realms of thought are impossible to reach without first attaining an understanding of compassion.

To know thyself is the beginning of wisdom.

True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, & the world around us.

Conocerse a uno mismo, ese es el principio fundamental de la verdadera sabiduría Humana.

Knowledge will make you be free.

He who knows not and knows not that he knows not is an incorrigible fool.

I only know one thing, and that is I know nothing

I only know, I know nothing

Man must rise above the Earth—to the top of the atmosphere and beyond—for only thus will he fully understand the world in which he lives.

Sometimes you have to lose your mind before you come to your senses.