Quotes About Enlightenment

This (Knowledge of Akram Vignan) is the 'real' thing and it is the absolute truth and the absolute truth is always functional (gives results).

Someone burns your beloved scripture in front of you, yet you are not bothered even the slightest bit. That's when you know, you have achieved divinity.

I want to know the truth to set it free.

Truth hides behind the curtain of illusion. We often get lost in illusion and forget to find the truth.

On a supra human level, yeah, I got That Which Is. Yet on a simple human level, rare are times when either my left or my right foot is not in some kind of shit.

Fools follow foolishly their imaginary lookalikes as god. Such silly follies exist not. Seek 'What Is'. And is not.

No book dropped from "up there". If it did, you say, then something is screwed up somewhere between your neck, and the top of your head.

Come on, let your silly egotistical self be gone! And then only THAT WHICH IS will be shown.

It's been said that only the educated are free, but I contend. Only those who are educated with TRUTH can be inherently free. Otherwise, you are simply indoctrinated with error.

You shall know the truth and the truth shall set you free.

Truth is an acquired taste.

I believe that ignorance is the root of all evil.And that no one knows the truth.

Sometimes playing stupid opens your eyes to the truth.

At the end of every short story the reader should feel as if a cloud has been lifted from the face of the moon.

The truth was, there was nothing in the law that I objected to more than the death penalty. It was not that I had ever had a client executed or even tried such a case. It was simply a belief in the idea that an enlightened society did not kill its own.

It was simply a belief in the idea that an enlightened society did not kill its own.

I want a news service that tells me what no one knows but is true nonetheless.

All that matters is not remote from where the Buddha sits.

Corny as it sounds, I believe that unless we try to familiarize ourselves with the best that human beings have thought and accomplished, we doom ourselves to be little more than mindless consumer-wraiths, docile sheep waiting to be shorn by corporation or government, sad and confused dwellers on the threshold of a palace we never enter.

Your arrows do not carry,' observed the Master, 'because they do not reach far enough spiritually.' Eugen Herrigel Zen and the Art of Archery

When you know as much as we do, nothing matters.

For Bulgakov, however, the greatest underlying source of unease, amounting at times to despair, was something less tangible though very real to him, since it occurs as an ever-present refrain throughout these stories. This was the sense of being a lone soldier of reason and enlightenment pitted against the vast, dark, ocean-like mass of peasant ignorance and superstition... [in] the fearsome, pre-literate, mediaeval world of the peasantry

Who can free himself from achievementAnd from fame,Descend and be lostAmid the masses of men?He will flow like the Tao, unseen.Such is the perfect man: His boat is empty.

There is no darkness but ignorance. – Shakespeare