Quotes About Enlightenment

A man may be theologically knowing and spiritually ignorant.

Why grab possessions like thieves, or divide them like socialists when you can ignore them like wise men?

The Saint is a man who disciplines his ego. The Sage is a man who rids himself of his ego.

The human race will then become one family, and the world will be the dwelling of Rational Men.

Consciousness is a state in which a man knows all at once everything that he in general knows and in which he can see how little he does know and how many contradictions there are in what he knows.

He who has achieved this state Is unconcerned with friends and enemies, With good and harm, with honor and disgrace. This therefore is the highest state of man.

All the fish needs is to get lost in the water. All man needs is to get lost in Tao.

Ability in a man is knowledge which emanates from divine light

Lend your light to the blind. Why should the wickedness of men irritate you, when it is only blindness?

The man who has not the habit of reading is imprisoned in his immediate world.

A truly wise man does not play leapfrog with a unicorn.

Mental slavery is mental death, and every man who has given up his intellectual freedom is the living coffin of his dead soul.

When a man sees the one in all things, he is above mere understanding.

Man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thro' narrow chinks of his cavern.

An ordinary man seeks freedom through enlightenment. An enlightened man expresses freedom through being ordinary.

While men are gazing up to Heaven, imagining after a happiness, or fearing a Hell after they are dead, their eyes are put out, that they see not what is their birthright.

Man knows much more than he understands.

Man must rise above the Earth - to the top of the atmosphere and beyond - for only thus will he fully understand the world in which he lives.

All my days have I grown up among the Sages and I have found naught better for a man than silence.

Seek your own Reality, That is what a wise man should do.

We understand why children are afraid of darkness ... but why are men afraid of light?

Meditation makes the man Divine and brings the Divine to the world of man.

Imparting knowledge is only lighting other men's candles at our lamp without depriving ourselves of any flame.

Journey over, sorrowless, freed in every way, and with all bonds broken - for such a man there is no more distress.