Quotes About Enlightenment

Enlightenment begins with acceptance, without judgment of "what is.

Nothing is painful in and of itself. Pain is a result of wrong thought. It is an error in thinking. A Master can disappear the most grievous pain. In this way, the Master heals. Pain results from a judgment you have made about a thing. Remove the judgment and the pain disappears.

Wisdom is knowledge applied.

That's what we're doing here. I'm going to lead you back to your Self … and thus, lead you back to Me. And this you will one day do for others. You will give people back to themselves—and thus, back to Me. For when you find your Self, you find Me. There I have always been, and there I will always be.

Nothing in this world is real

And that was the closest I've ever come to an epiphany.

Ignorance is a virus. Once it starts spreading, it can only be cured by reason. For the sake of humanity, we must be that cure.

If I live a day and I don't know a little more than I did the day before, I think I wasted that day.

The day our knowledge of the cosmos ceases to expand, we risk regressing to the childish view that the universe figuratively and literally revolves around us. In that bleak world, arms-bearing, resource-hungry people and nations would be prone to act on their "low contracted prejudices." And that would be the last gasp of human enlightenment—until the rise of a visionary new culture that could once again embrace, rather than fear, the cosmic perspective.

people taking the time and energy to ask about what they do not understand - I have renewed hope that society can shed its superstitions and embrace the enlightenment that comes from just a basic understanding of how the universe works.

You can't get wise with sleep still in your eyes no matter what your dream might be.

Our lives are a battlefield on which is fought a continuous war between the forces that are pledged to confirm our humanity and those determined to dismantle it; those who strive to build a protective wall around it, and those who wish to pull it down; those who seek to mould it and those committed to breaking it up; those who aim to open our eyes, to make us see the light and look to tomorrow [...] and those who wish to lull us into closing our eyes

Being is one thing; becoming aware of it is a point of arrival by an awakened consciousness and this involves a journey.

Ci sono uomini che sanno tutto, peccato che questo è tutto quello che sanno.

Doctor, you say there are no haloes around the streetlights in Paris and what I see is an aberration caused by old age, an affliction. I tell you it has taken me all my life to arrive at the vision of gas lamps as angels, to soften and blur and finally banish the edges you regret I don't see

expression, zeh kanah hokhmah, literally, "this one has acquired wisdom.

Colonization proposals were crafted by intellectuals, reformers, and politicians--men (and occasionally women) who saw themselves as liberal in their sentiments. To be liberal in the early United States involved specific beliefs and actions: it meant that you embraced the rational thought of the Enlightenment, that you manifested a Christian benevolence to others, and most importantly, that you were determined to reject the temptations of prejudice.

They inspire you, they entertain you, and you end up learning a ton even when you don't know it

One day you're going to learn something that can't be explained with science. And when that happens, your life's going to change in ways you can't imagine.

It wasn't as if a light had suddenly blinked on; it was more like a sunrise, where the sky grows lighter and lighter, almost imperceptibly, before you realized it was morning.

Movies can be instruments of enlightenment.

My journey is not to be a star but to become as aware a person as possible.

It is possible to spend one's entire lifetime without ever experiencing the mystical realms or even without being aware of their existence.

You are a perfect spiritual being. Get used to that idea.