Quotes About Enlightenment

To know that one knows what one knows, and to know that one doesn't know what one doesn't know, there lies true wisdom.

The savage lives simply through ignorance and idleness or laziness, but the philosopher lives simply through wisdom.

Buhhdism is wisdom. As long as we have wisdom, we can put all things to the best use, we can turn everything in the direction of happiness.

You cannot intellectualize God, you cannot, He is beyond your intellect, you cannot understand Him through your intellect. If you have to understand Him you have to become the spirit.

You are foolish, but without fools there would be no wisdom.

India is at one with the most puritan faiths of the world in her declaration that progress is from seen to unseen, from the many to the One, from the low to the high, from the form to the formless, and never in the reverse direction.

It teaches that there is the soul, and inside this soul is all power. It is already there, and if we can master this body, all the power will be unfolded. All knowledge is in the soul. Why

That which the ignorant do with desire for results and gain, let the wise do without any attachment and without any desire for results and gain.

Knowledge itself is the highest reward of knowledge.

Krishna is the higher Self, or God. He sees through the argument at once. In this case [the motive] is weakness.

Swami Vivekananda

Religion can be realised. Are you ready? Do you want it? You will get the realisation if you do, and then you will be truly religious. Until you have attained realisation there is no difference between you and atheists. The atheists are sincere, but the man who says that he believes in religion and never attempts to realise it is not sincere.

Oh, if only you knew yourselves! You are souls; you are Gods. If ever I feel like blaspheming, it; is when I call you man.

Truth itself is always simple. Complexity is due to man's ignorance.

Works (Golden Deer Classics)

It is true that the Upanishads have this one theme before them: "????????? ???? ???????? ???????? ???????? ???? - What is that knowing which we know everything else?

Study. What is meant by study in this case? No study of novels or story books, but study of those works which teach the liberation of the Soul.

religion is no matter of books and beliefs, but of spiritual realisation.

Therefore the highest utility for mankind is to find this happiness in the Spirit.

those who believe in God should pray — not for money, not for health, nor for heaven; pray for knowledge and light; every other prayer is selfish.

Yama, Niyama, Âsana, Prânâyâama, Pratyâhâra, Dhâranâ, Dhyâna, and Samâdhi are the eight limbs of Yoga.

He (God) reveals himself to the pure heart.

Freedom is to lose all illusions.

The discoverers of these laws are called Rishis, and we honour them as perfected beings. I am glad to tell this audience that some of the very greatest of them were women.