Quotes About Enlightenment

Get to know who you are not, because when you know your ego the Truth of who you are will also become clear.

Understanding do not come by being religious

Wisdom is the byproduct of lifelong experience and education.

Knowledge is beautiful but wisdom is magnificent.

Through many tribulations, we begin to search for the truth.

The truth shall your soul free.

If you want to travel the Way of Buddhas and Zen masters, then expect nothing, seek nothing, and grasp nothing.

When you demand nothing of the world, nor of God, when you want nothing, seek nothing, expect nothing, then the supreme state will come to you uninvited and unexpected.

When the ancient Masters said, "If you want to be given everything, give everything up," they weren't using empty phrases. Only in being lived by the Tao can you be truly yourself.

Chanting just hits you and you want to be a part of it. That's the point of this whole thing. That's what cuts through all the 'stuff'. You get lit up. You don't have to know what it means.

My belief is that to have no wants is divine.

Knowing others is intelligent. Knowing yourself is enlightened. Tzu chih che ming Conquering others takes force. Conquering yourself is true strength.

A man may be theologically knowing and spiritually ignorant.

Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche, The Myth of Freedom and the Way of Meditation. Shambhala: Boston, 1976

Stephen Mitchell. Tao te Ching. Harper Perennial: New York, 1991

Struggle," says Swami Kripalu, "changes an ordinary human into a spiritually awake person.

For a period of time after this discovery, Gandhi walked many miles each day, repeating the mantra to himself until it began to coordinate itself with the movement of his body and breath. The practice not only calmed him, but brought him into periods of bliss and rapture—and, as he said, "opened the doorway to God." Rama, Rama, Rama. Eventually, the mantra developed a life of its own within him. The mantra began to chant itself, arising spontaneously whenever he needed it.

Abandon all supports," says Krishna to Arjuna in one of his great final teachings. "Cast off your dependency on everything external, Arjuna, and rely on the Self alone." We work first because we have to work. Then because we want to work. Then because we love to work. Then the work simply does us. Difficult at the beginning. Inevitable at the end.

The Enlightenment taught that observation unrecorded was knowledge lost.

The Frankfurt School was profoundly mistaken in thinking that the Enlightenment—or, better, its scientific rationality—should be interpreted as triumphant or in isolation from the theory and practice of its rivals. Enlightenment thinking has always been on the defensive. That remains the case.

And as he quite rightly went on to say . . . For man has closed himself up, till he sees thro' narrow chinks of his cavern.

Scientists have become the bearers of the torch of discovery in our quest for knowledge.

La tradición angloamericana se vio a sí misma como un paladín del proyecto de la Ilustración. Se alió con la ciencia, con el rigor, con la razón y con la objetividad, y rechazó con desprecio los extravíos especulativos de Hegel y los enredos de Kierkegaard. Estaba profundamente impregnada por la ciencia y la veía como la alternativa a la ahora desacreditada filosofía religiosa y especulativa.

Haber institucionalizado la confianza en el poder de la razón es el logro más sobresaliente de la Ilustración.