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Quotes About Enlightenment

Every truth we see is one to give to the world, not to keep to ourselves alone.
~ Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Truth reforms as well as informs.
~ William Jenkyn
Make an island of yourself, make yourself your refuge; there is no other refuge. Make truth your island, make truth your refuge; there is no other refuge.
~ Gautama Buddha
Dharma is one and one only. Ahimsa means moksha, and moksha is the realization of Truth.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
The practice of Sufism is the intention to move toward truth by means of love and devotion.
~ Javad Nurbakhsh
All truth, in the long run, is only common sense clarified.
~ Thomas Huxley
Bigotry dwarfs the soul by shutting out the truth.
~ Edwin Hubbell Chapin
Your truth should be so pure that if lifts a person's soul to the heights.
~ Harbhajan Singh Yogi
See the truth, and you will see me.
~ Gautama Buddha
The only "definitive truth" for Buddhism is the absolute negation of any one truth as the Definitive Truth.
~ Dalai Lama
Truth is a pathless land.
~ Jiddu Krishnamurti
Truth breaks you down so it can rebuild you according to its specifications in Heaven.
~ Vernon Howard
There is neither creation nor destruction, neither destiny nor free will, neither path nor achievement. This is the final truth.
~ Ramana Maharshi
The truth can be spoken only by someone who is already at home in it; not by someone who still lives in untruthfulness, and does no more than reach out towards it from within untruthfulness.
~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
We call first truths those we discover after all the others.
~ Albert Camus
The truth dazzles gradually, or else the world would be blind.
~ Emily Dickinson
The advent of truth, like the dawn of day, agitates the elements, while it disperses the gloom.
~ Elias Lyman Magoon
Fact creates norms, and truth illumination.
~ Werner Herzog
It would be a better world if everyone in it knew all the truth about everything.
~ Andy Rooney
Purity is developed through caring. You need to care about light and the matters of light, truth, religion and spirituality.
~ Frederick Lenz
An enlightened person does not ignore things and does not stick to things, not even to the truth.
~ Shunryu Suzuki
The truth is that you already are what you are seeking. You are looking for God with his eyes. I suggest you ask, "What's ultimately behind this set of eyes?" Turn around to see what is looking.
~ Adyashanti
Therefore, do not eat meat which will cause terror among people, because it hinders the truth of emancipation; not to eat meat? this is the mark of the wise.
~ Gautama Buddha
Till the false is seen as the false, truth is not.
~ Jiddu Krishnamurti