Quotes About Enlightenment

A God-intoxicated man. [Ger., Gott-trunkener Mensch.]

The man who prays ceases to be a fool

Heavens! what thick darkness pervades the minds of men. [Lat., Pro superi! quantum mortalia pectora caecae, Noctis habent.]

In my vision, the thing that man needs first and foremost is a meditative consciousness.

For Zen, man is the goal; man is the end unto himself. God is not something above humanity, God is something hidden within humanity. Man is carrying God in himself as a potentiality.

To me a man of meditation is bound to be immensely loving.

Who speaks reason to his fellow man bestows it upon them.

But let a man know that there are things to be known, of which he is ignorant, and it is so much carved out of his domain of universal knowledge.

Man's best candle is his understanding.

It is in knowledge that man has found his greatness and his happiness.

The belief in a Divine education, open to each man and to all men, takes up into itself all that is true in the end proposed by culture, supplements, and perfects it.

A man may live long, and die at last in ignorance of many truths, which his mind was capable of knowing, and that with certainty.

Love is ultimate, the highest health, because love makes one whole. When you love a master by and by you completely forgot about love.

Money is the wise man's religion.

My favorite cause is the enlightenment of others. I think that is the best place to put money. You get the highest yield in terms of karma on your money.

What does spirituality, money and happiness have in common? Everything.

For millions of years you have slept. This morning, will you not wake?

Ignorance is the mother of all evils.

Mother lode of learning.

Nothing that results in human progress is achieved with unanimous consent. Those that are enlightened before the others are condemned to pursue that light in spite of the others.

Attachment is the strongest block to realization.

I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.

All the powers in the universe are already ours. It is we who have put our hands before our eyes and cry that it is dark.

Inspiration springs more readily from knowledge than from ignorance.