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Quotes About Enlightenment

Fill yourself with the power of wisdom and enlightenment.
~ Morihei Ueshiba
We shall quench our thirst, for we shall drink deep at the bubbling fountain of Wisdom.
~ Jiddu Krishnamurti
The beginning of wisdom is the knowledge of folly.
~ Norm MacDonald
Once the mind has been expanded by a big idea, it will never go back to its original state.
~ Thomas Carlyle
If one extends knowledge to the utmost, one will have wisdom. Having wisdom, one can then make choices.
~ Cheng Yi
The mind usually says, "I know, I know, I know." But the "don't-know mind" is where wisdom lives.
~ Byron Katie
Teach a man to read and write, and you have put into his hands the great keys of the wisdom-box.
~ Thomas Huxley
The goal of our life's effort is to reach the other shore, Nirvana. Prajna paramita, the true wisdom of life, is that in each step of the way, the other shore is actually reached.
~ Shunryu Suzuki
There are, O monks, these four lights. What four? The light of the moon, the light of the sun, the light of fire, and the light of wisdom. Of these four lights, the light of wisdom is supreme.
~ Gautama Buddha
Stairs elevate you; ethics elevates you; goodness elevates you; awareness elevates you; wisdom elevates you.
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Close both eyes to see with the other eye.
~ Rumi
To see the unreal is wisdom. Beyond this lies the inexpressible.
~ Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
The door to God is the insecurity of not knowing anything. Bear the grace of that uncertainty and all wisdom will be yours.
~ Adyashanti
Suffering has a noble purpose: the evolution of consciousness and the burning up of the ego.
~ Eckhart Tolle
He who seeks wisdom is a wise man; he who thinks he has found it is mad.
~ Seneca the Younger
The loneliness is the mother of wisdom.
~ Laurence Sterne
No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool.
~ Erica Jong
Zen is the unsymbolization of the world.
~ Reginald Horace Blyth
A good smile is the sunshine of wisdom.
~ Hosea Ballou
Wisdom is a blaze, kindled by a leaping spark.
~ Plato
If you want to know the reality, you have to become the spirit.
~ Nirmala Srivastava
Spiritual wisdom is now available to everyone, disseminated to the masses as never before in world history.
~ Marianne Williamson
Wisdom has never made a bigot, but learning has.
~ Josh Billings
I'll come to you with gifts of knowledge, wisdom and truth.
~ Barry White