Quotes About Enlightenment

Here we are in darkness," Tayven said, "And for us, if we did not know better, this light would be all that existed. But we do know better. We know that outside the cave the world is bathed in light.

This is the way of things, she thought. We seek answers and enlightenment, and expect to find it in others, but essentially, it is down to us.

The purpose of teachers should be to add to the sum of human knowers rather than the sum of human knowledge.

It's after the end of the world. Don't you know that yet?

I have a potent degree of love that is so unwise in one world that it is wisdom in another.

Those who are thirsty for wisdom Will ever move toward the source of the wisdom That quenches their thirst.

Life is not earning but learning.

When I enter a Library ... I still have a reassuring sense that it is going to tell me all I need to know.

Sober up, and you see and hear everything you'd been able to avoid hearing before.

Emancipation came to the colored race in America as a war measure. It was an act of military necessity. Manifestly it would have come without war, in the slower process of humanitarian reform and social enlightenment.

Libertarian socialism is properly to be regarded as the inheritor of the liberal ideals of the Enlightenment.

What is it precisely, that feeling of 'returning' from a poem? Something is lighter, softer, larger - then it fades, but never completely.

Understanding is the solution to every problem.

We learn that all life is scarce yet abundant. Profane yet sacred. Loving yet hateful. Enlightened yet obscured. Isolated yet collective. That life is somehow derived from love.

He would wake up knowing that as long as he was capable of having such beautiful dreams, a part of him must still be good.

To love her was a liberal education.

Generally, I love being part of a project that imparts a positive message, is somehow educational or enlightening, helps to bridge differences, or inspires viewers in some way.

They would need to be already wise, in order to love wisdom.

Enlightenment is the Goal - Love is the Game - Taking steps are the rules! - Allan Rufus

Two things are needed to raise awareness: education and love. And these go hand in hand because we can be taught to love.

Being liked or not, having company or not, being understood or not, being acknowledged or not are not issues of concern on the spiritual path.

Sufism expresses what I have found to be Real.

Free is a man who has no desires.

The fragrance of meditation is enlightenment.