Quotes About Enlightenment

I believe spiritualism is above everything, and I would choose it over name, fame, and money because spiritualism gives you power, and I love power.

Real human purpose in life is to realise self. I am on the path to spirituality, to realise my inner self.

Spirituality gives you better understanding of the commercial world.

I read for the 'ah-ha's,' the information that makes a light bulb go off in my mind. I want to put information in my mind that is going to be the most beneficial to me, my family and my fellow man - financially, morally, spiritually, and emotionally.

How do you become enlightened? I don't know: Luck, karma, skill, friends in high places, friends in low places.

Was the Buddha married? His wife would say, "Are you just going to sit around like that all day?"

Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing there is a field. I'll meet you there. When the soul lies down in that grass the world is too full to talk about.

Man is essentially ignorant, and becomes learned through acquiring knowledge.

A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men.

I am neither a child, a young man, nor an ancient; nor am I of any caste.

Any man who is attached to things of this world is one who lives in ignorance and is being consumed by the snakes of his own passions

Let no man in the world live in delusion. Without a Guru none can cross over to the other shore.

The saddest thing about any man is that he be ignorant, and the most exciting thing is that he knows.

The ideal of man is to be a revelation himself, clearly to recognize himself as a manifestation of God.

Men remain in ignorance as long as they hate, and they hate unjustly as long as they remain in ignorance.

When the human mind exists in the light of reason and no more than reason, we may say with absolute certainty that Man and all that made him will be in that instant gone.

Man know thyself; then thou shalt know the Universe and God.

Modern man must descend the spiral of his own absurdity to the lowest point; only then can he look beyond it. It is obviously impossible to get around it, jump over it, or simply avoid it.

The difference between a great soul and an ordinary man is this: the latter weeps while leaving this body, whereas the former laughs. Death seems to him a mere play.

He who lowers his mind to the dust of all men's feet, Sees the Name of God enshrined in every heart.

He is unworthy of the name of man who is ignorant of the fact that the diagonal of a square is incommensurable with its side.

The circle of knowledge commences close round a man and thence stretches out concentrically.

Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.

To need nothing is divine, and the less a man needs the nearer does he approach to divinity.