Quotes About Enlightenment

By listening to your higher self, or Atman, you can return to the truth that's already inside of you and in the process change not only yourself, but the entire world, through positivity and love.

Ignorance is not bliss. Ignorance is brutal. The brutality of ignorance is such that it will make you dead while alive.

Therefore, be ye lamps unto yourselves, be ye a refuge to yourselves. Hold fast to the truth as a lamp; hold fast as a refuge to the truth. Look not for refuge to anyone besides yourselves.

There are few earthly things more beautiful than a university a place where those who hate ignorance may strive to know, where those who perceive truth may strive to make others see.

We spend our lives fighting to get people very slightly more stupid than ourselves to accept truths that the great men have always known.

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

Truth is that which, when fully realized, sets you free from all bondage and all seeking.

I expose slavery in this country, because to expose it is to kill it. Slavery is one of those monsters of darkness to whom the light of truth is death.

After much seeking for truth and knowledge the profoundness of reality came to me with a clarity never before known.

All paths do not lead to truth. There is no path to truth, it must come to you.

This phantom world gave you false signs But you turned from the illusion and journeyed to the land of truth.

They whom truth and wisdom lead, can gather honey from a weed.

Truth is a torch, but a terrific one; therefore we all try to reach it with closed eyes, lest we should be scorched.

It would be difficult to dispel ignorance unless there is freedom to pursue the truth unfettered by fear.

Geometry draws the soul towards truth.

The Truth is realized in an instant; the Act is practiced step by step.

True religion is the realization of truth.

Ultimate serenity is the coming to rest of all ways of taking things, the repose of named things; no truth has been taught by a Buddha for anyone, anywhere.

The truth is a snare: you cannot have it, without being caught. You cannot have the truth in such a way that you catch it, but only in such a way that it catches you.

I seek a deeper truth, but I don't think I have to go to a building designated for worship to find it.

Reality is what trips you up when you walk around with your eyes closed.

Enlightenment is freedom, the thought of enlightenment is prison. The truth exists in the moment. If we´re anywhere else, seeking something outside of the moment, we´re in prison.

To secure one's freedom the Christian must experience God's light which is God's truth.

The seeker of God is the real lover of vidya, unchangeable truth; all else is avidya, relative knowledge.