Quotes About Enlightenment

Enlightenment and tolerance, it would seem, have little to do with being lettered or unlettered. His

Perhaps moksha lies in not thinking about the afterlife.

Voltaire, the French philosopher and writer of the Enlightenment era who lived for many years just a few miles away from where I am writing this book, once said: "Doubt is an uncomfortable condition, but certainty is a ridiculous one."74

Where there are humans, You'll find flies, And Buddhas.

EDUCATION IS THE PREMISE OF PROGRESS

Bilgi güçtür, bilgi özgürle?tirir.

Truth is a pathless land.

Man's task is…to become conscious of the contents that press upward from the unconscious. Neither should he persist in his unconsciousness nor remain identical with the unconscious elements of his being, thus evading his destiny, which is to create more and more consciousness. As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.

People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own souls. One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious. The latter procedure, however, is disagreeable and therefore not popular.

In the morning it rises from the nocturnal sea of unconsciousness and looks upon the wide, bright world which lies before it in an expanse that steadily widens as it climbs higher in the firmament. In this extension of its field of action caused by its own rising, the sun will discover its own significance; it will see the attainment of the greatest possible height, and the widest possible dissemination of its blessings, as its goal.

One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light," he said, "but by making the darkness conscious. The latter procedure, however, is disagreeable and therefore not popular.

modern people…are ignorant of what they really are. We have simply forgotten what a human being really is, so we have men like Nietzsche and Freud and Adler, who tell us what we are, quite mercilessly. We have to discover our shadow. Otherwise we are driven into a world war in order to see what beasts we are.

People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own souls. One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.

The library is the temple of learning and learning has liberated more people than all the wars in history.

We are all in the depths of a cave, chained by our ignorance, by our prejudices, and our weak senses reveal to us only shadows. If we try to see further, we are confused; we are unaccustomed. But we try. This is science. Scientific

Science is about reading the world from a gradually widening point of view.

Perhaps it is we who have not yet learned to look at it from just the right point of view, one that would reveal its hidden simplicity.

It's a moment of enlightenment. A momentous simplification of the world: space is no longer something distinct from matter—it is one of the "material" components of the world. An entity that undulates, flexes, curves, twists.

Human beings are on a journey of awareness, which has been momentarily interrupted by extraneous forces.

Forget the self and you will fear nothing, in whatever level or awareness you find yourself to be.

The average man is hooked to his fellow men, while the warrior is hooked only to infinity.

A Benet) No te goces en desconcertar.

The truth will set you free, and then you shall be free indeed.

We need to ponder such events, ask to have their meaning revealed to us, and allow ourselves to recognize that we have been touched by the transpersonal world.