Quotes About Enlightenment

The sleep of reason produces monsters

El sueno de la razon produce monstuos

El Sueno de la razon produce monstrous. (The sleep of reason breeds monsters)

El sueño de la razón produce monstruos

Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire

Philosopher A lover of wisdom, which is to say, Truth.

And in that moment, I felt my own ignorance spread suddenly out behind me like a pair of wings, and every single thing I didn't know was a feather on those wings. I could feel them tugging at the air, restless to be airborne.

To be conscious and enlightened, Spirit must fill our bodies. Trance Dancing is an invitation to Spirit to embody us. When Spirit accepts, we dance from the inside out.

Luckily for the people she helped, my mother was gloriously inconsistent. She lived according to the more enlightened parts of the Bible and ignored the rest. For instance, no matter what she claimed the Bible taught about homosexuality, Mom acted as if being born gay was just another way to be human. She provided refuge, love and compassion to many gay

that held no tradition too sacred to question. Jesus was the first of the Enlightenment philosophers. In John 8: 4-7 speaking like some sort of first century Voltaire, Jesus questioned the laws and traditions of his day. "And the scribes and Pharisees brought unto him a woman taken in adultery; and

God as preached and lived by Jesus, the Enlightenment writers put human non-exclusionary justice ahead of the law. This rational philosophy did not condemn according to a set of rules but demanded moral consistency and compassion from those who would judge. Enlightenment thinkers jettisoned the ugly, exclusionary and magical parts of the religion that grew up bearing Christ's name. Their goal was what Ellul called on the Church to do in Jesus and Marx:

I want the world to recognize with me the open door of every consciousness

As a man, I undertake to risk annihilation so that two or three truths can cast their essential light on the world.

We must elevate the people, expand their minds, equip them, differentiate them, and humanize them.

In every combat unit and in every village, legions of political commissioners are at work enlightening the people on issues which have become stumbling blocks of incomprehension

It is of course quite a different matter when a seeker, no longer satisfied with materialism or dogma and yearning for spiritual nourishment, asks an initiate for advice and enlightenment. In such an instance the initiate is duty bound to enlighten the seeker in accordance with his perceptive faculties. The magician should spare neither time nor effort to communicate his spiritual treasures to the seeker and lead him towards the light.

Genius unrefined resembles a flash of lightning, but wisdom is like the sun.

1. "Knowledge is an attribute (sifah) through which ignorance, doubt, or conjecturing is removed from him who is alive."129

Jetzt kommt die Pointe aller Pointen, die mir der Herr im Schlaf verliehen hat.

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.

To understand everything is to forgive everything.

Satori (enlightenment) is described as nothing seeing itself as such.

The true Self or Buddha-nature is precisely this nothingness or emptiness (sunyata).

It takes place on a dimension higher than that of science (or scientism) or common sense.