Quotes About Enlightenment

Nothing infuriates people more than their own lack of spiritual insight.

Nanak dukhiya sab sansar.

So, Christian Wiccans have agreed to adapt to the basic principles of early Christianity: 1) honoring the Holy Trinity, 2) baptism, 3) communion, 4) strive to seek truth and love, and 5) to continue to read and study all forms of scriptures that each individual finds enlightening and as a guide to their Higher Selves.

The old ones say that a man can have knowledge without wisdom but he cannot have wisdom without knowledge.

Indeed the roots of the climate crisis date back to core civilizational myths on which post-Enlightenment Western culture is founded—myths about humanity's duty to dominate a natural world that is believed to be at once limitless and entirely controllable.

There is, it must be stressed, something uniquely twisted about this particular path to enlightenment. They say that Americans learn where foreign countries are by bombing them. Now it seems we are all learning about nature's circulatory systems by poisoning them.

I turned back and tried again, and once more I was sure that I was understanding, and all of it made perfect sense - better than perfect sense, even; it had the feeling of truth, of something that I'd always known and just hadn't ever put into words, or of explaining clearly and plainly something I'd never understood.

What did these people know that the rest of us did not know?

What did these people know that the rest of us did not yet know?

We had now left the Enlightenment and entered the world of "belief matrices.

ASK any wise man what he most desires and he will, more than likely, say more wisdom.

It is not unreasonable to look forward to a time when we shall see without eyes, hear without ears and talk without tongues.

Upon learning to see a man becomes everything by becoming nothing. He

This cures everything except stupidity, which is an epidemic on the rise.

Trying to educate a bigot is like shining light into the pupil of an eye—it constricts.

Meeting the "self" activates the transformation of human consciousness

The Mind, once enlightened, cannot again become dark." THOMAS PAINE, Common Sense

As the Buddha taught, the cause of suffering is attachment; the end of attachment will mean the end of suffering.

Those who are in a spiritual crisis, however, have a feeling that something is trying to wake up inside them. They just don't know how to see it.

There are those who know and those who don't know. And for every ten thousand who don't know there's only one who knows. That's the miracle of all time--the fact that these millions know so much but don't know this.

And I have been fortunate to escape what has been called "that form of snobbery which can accept the Literature of Entertainment in the Past, but only the Literature of Enlightenment in the Present.

What are you, Zen Master Fang?

Books are the ever burning lamps of accumulated wisdom.

All generous minds have a horror of what are commonly called 'Facts'. They are the brute beasts of the intellectual domain.