Quotes About Enlightenment

Life is learning process. We must keep learning.

To be without supernatural infusion of divine love and light is to have lost the glory

Love is the path that guides the men to the fields of infinite LIGHT!

Letting go facilitates the evolution of the soul.

He'd explode and in a flash you'd see something anew, and you were never the same again.

The more a consciousness is awakened, the more it transcends its own historicity...

el iniciado, el que ha conocido los misterios, es el que sabe.

To remain "awake," to be fully conscious, means: to be present to the world of the spirit.

Finish your journey and you will know.

To comprehend yourself truly, which is also to comprehend the world truly, you needn't look any farther than at what abounds with life around you – the blossoming meadow, the untrodden woodlands. Without this as mankind's overriding objective, I don't foresee an age of actual enlightenment ever arriving.

There is a specific dimension of the uncanny that emerges with modernity… in premodern societies the dimension of the uncanny was largely covered (and veiled) by the area of the sacred and untouchable… With the triumph of the Enlightenment, this privileged and excluded (the exclusion that founded society) was no more. That is to say that the uncanny became unplaceable; it became uncanny in the strict sense.

Sufis tell of two paths to transcendence:

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

Whoever will be cured of ignorance, let him confess it.

Eduquer, c'est allumer un feu

Even when you have been somewhat enlightened by what you have read, you are called upon to continue the serach for significance.

All books will become light in proportion as you find light in them.

Enlightenment is achieved only when, in addition to knowing what an author says, you know what he means and why he says it.

Getting more information is learning, and so is coming to understand what you did not understand before. But there is an important difference between these two kinds of learning.

The possession of the truth is the highest goal of the human mind.

If you are reading a book that can increase your understanding, it stands to reason that not all of its words will be completely intelligible to you. If you proceed as if they were all ordinary words, all on the same level of general intelligibility as the words of a newspaper article, you will make no headway toward interpretation of the book. You might just as well be reading a newspaper, for the book cannot enlighten you if you do not try to understand it.

4. WHAT OF IT? If the book has given you information, you must ask about its significance. Why does the author think it is important to know these things? Is it important to you to know them? And if the book has not only informed you, but also enlightened you, it is necessary to seek further enlightenment by asking what else follows, what is further implied or suggested

Being informed is prerequisite to being enlightened.

La historia está llena de sabios que no se han conocido nunca a sí mismos