Quotes About Enlightenment

We should feel the same pity for minds that do not eat as for stomachs. If there be anything sadder than a body perishing for want of bread, it is a mind dying of hunger for lack of light."77

The story of 'Mirror Mirror' is in many ways a story about evolution. It's about the evolution of a child into an adult. It's about the evolution of those dwarves into something a little less rock-like, a little more humanoid. It's about the evolution of history, too, from the darkness of the Middle Ages into the light of the Age of Reason.

It would be exciting to take part in what we now call the Enlightenment at the end of the 18th century, but with modern dentistry.

Modernity, the child of the Enlightenment, failed when it became apparent that the good society cannot be achieved by unaided reason.

Many people are in the dark when it comes to money, and I'm going to turn on the lights.

Delusion means mortality. And awareness means Buddhahood.

Mortals liberate Buddhas and Buddhas liberate mortals.

Education is the most important thing you can have.

The way people see Africa is mostly dark.

In the last stage of civilization, Poetry, Religion, and Philosophy will be one.

The only sin in the world is ignorance.

Google this by Thoreau and see if you can find it among the many many posterized quotes. No. We want doctrines and schemes. The wisest man preaches no doctrines; he has no scheme; he sees no rafter, not even a cobweb, against the heavens. It is clear sky. If I ever see more clearly at one time than at another, the medium through which I see is clearer.

I had learned at last to not project my darkness onto those around me;

They replied that it was "difficult to make contact because such people did not have time to meditate and attain the serenity to elevate their minds." An undisclosed geographical factor was also said to be involved. "She was told

Gaisma ir p?r?k s?p?ga t?dam, kas v?las palikt tums?.

Life is about learning; when you stop learning, you die.

Our great human adventure is the evolution of consciousness. We are in this life to enlarge the soul, liberate the spirit, and light up the brain.

We approach the divine by enlarging our souls and lighting up our brains.

If the earth needs night as well as day, wouldn't it follow that the soul requires endarkenment to balance enlightenment?

When it comes to coolness, nothing the human race has ever invented is more cool than a book.

Kudra had awakened him from a long sleep. No, that was false, he hadn't been asleep at Samye, he had been in a state of heightened awareness, but there is a sense in which awareness can be as stagnating as sloth.

Enlightened and endarkened. The ultimate.

I'd like to think that had I known the truth, I might have been a kinder, more loving person. If only we knew the Truth, mightn't we all?

Who knows what causes the human brain to split its britches. It would seem that the brain hangs so many curtains between itself and the true universe that eventually light can no longer reach it, and it molds and rots and festers in the dark.