Quotes About Enlightenment

Jonahtan Seagull discovered that boredom and fear and anger are the reasons that a gull's life is so short,and with these gone from his thought,he lived a long life indeed.

Jonathan Seagull discovered that boredom and fear and anger are the reasons that a gull's life is so short, and with these gone from his thought, he lived a long fine life indeed.

Tienes idea de cuántas vidas debimos cruzar antes de que lográramos la primera idea de que hay más en la vida que comer, luchar o alcanzar poder en la Bandada? ¡Mil vidas, Juan, diez mil! Y luego cien vidas más hasta que empezáramos a aprender que hay algo llamado perfección, y otras cien para comprender que la meta de la vida es encontrar esa perfección y reflejarla.

Peki bundan sonra ne olacak? Nereye gidiyoruz? Cennet diye bir yer yok mu? -Hay?r Jonathan öyle bir yer yok. O ne bir yer, ne de bir zaman. Cennet, kendinde kusursuzluÄŸu bulmakt?r.

Do you have any idea how many lives we must have gone through before we even got the first idea that there is more to life than eating, or fighting, or power in the Flock? A thousand lives, Jon, ten thousand!… We choose our next world through what we learn in this one…

To fly as fast as thought, to anywhere that is," he said, "you must begin by knowing that you have already arrived." The trick, according to Chiang, was for Jonathan to stop seeing himself as trapped inside a limited body that had a forty-two-inch wingspan and performance that could be plotted on a chart. The trick was to know that his true nature lived, as perfect as an unwritten number, everywhere at once across space and time.

The only difference, the very only one, is that they have begun to understand what they really are and have begun to practice it.

Do you have any idea how many lives we must have gone through before we even got the first idea that there is more to life than eating, or fighting, or power in the Flock?

No, Jonathan, there is no such place. Heaven is not a place, and it is not a time. Heaven is being perfect.

There was a lot I didn't understand about messiahs.

Gözlerinle gördüklerine inanma. D?? görünüÅŸtür onlar yaln?zca, s?n?rl?d?r. Kavray???nla bak, öÄŸrendiklerinin bilincine var ve böylece uçman?n yolunu bulacaks?n.

Cuanto más nos iluminamos, menos se puede esperar que nadie, en ninguna parte, viva a nuestra altura

The less you know about the game, and the less you remember you're a player, the more senseless living becomes.

Dar, Fletcher, nu asta iubeÅŸti la ei! Nu iubeÅŸti ura ÅŸi r?utatea. Trebuie s? te str?duieÅŸti s? vezi adev?ratul pesc?ruÅŸ, partea bun? din fiecare. Trebuie s?-i ajuÅ£i ÅŸi pe ei s? o vad? în ei înÅŸiÅŸi. Asta înÅ£eleg eu prin dragoste. E grozav când înÅ£elegi asta.

Remember, Jonathan, heaven isn't a place or a time, because place and time are so very meaningless.

Chiang spoke slowly and watched the younger gull ever so carefully. "To fly as fast as thought, to anywhere that is," he said, "you must begin by knowing that you have already arrived.

Escucha!—gritó a través del espacio que nos separaba—. ¿Este mundo? ¿Y todo lo que hay en él? ¡Ilusiones, Richard! ¡Todo en él son ilusiones! ¿Lo entiendes?

Tienes idea de cuántas vidas debimos cruzar antes de que lográramos la primera idea de que hay más en la vida que comer, luchar o alcanzar poder en la Bandada? ¡Mil vidas, Juan, diez mil! Y luego cien vidas más hasta que empezamos a aprender que hay algo llamado perfección, y otras cien para comprender que la meta de la vida es encontrar esa perfección y reflejarla.

No creas lo que tus ojos te dicen. Sólo muestran limitaciones. Mira con tu entendimiento, descubre lo que ya sabes, y hallarás la manera de volar.

Jeff Brown explores the phenomenon in depth in his film Karmageddon: "After my childhood, I needed the kinds of spirituality that would keep me from allowing the pain to surface…. I was confusing self-avoidance with enlightenment."9

Intelligent life on a planet comes of age when it first works out the reason for its own existence.

Uno de los verdaderamente nefastos efectos de la religión es que nos inculca como virtud el estar satisfechos con el desconocimiento.

Compared with the Old Testament's psychotic delinquent, the deist God of the eighteenth-century Enlightenment is an altogether grander being:

The priests of the different religious sects…dread the advance of science as witches do the approach of daylight, and scowl on the fatal harbinger announcing the subdivision of the duperies on which they live.