Quotes About Enlightenment

Reading is soul work!

La ortodoxia de la razón idiotiza a la humanidad mucho más que cualquier religión. Karl Kraus

Qué era lo que yo quería aprender? ¿Qué quería hacer? No lo sabía. Ni programas ni guías: ninguna idea concreta. De acá o de allá, este u oeste, en profundidad o en altura. Solamente saber, saber todo. —He aquí la palabra de mi desastre: ¡todo!

we should strive to grow consciousness itself — to generate bigger, brighter lights in an otherwise dark universe.

M'Illumino D'Immenso - I flood myself with the light of the immense.

the second coming we must prepare for is our own. I believe that all of us who take up the torch to carry light into the dark corners of the human heart are Christ returned, His second coming.

Rather than seeking inspiration and meaning in life from the Bible, our culture has symbolically replaced it with the dictionary, a symbol of knowledge, learning, and enlightenment. I am committed to excellence in academics and intellectual pursuits, but this innocent mistake illustrates how so many people have replaced a vital relationship with their Creator (symbolized by the Bible) with a worship of knowledge and the mind (symbolized by the dictionary).

He let in the light.

Falsity feels great until you meet the truth.

We rather confess our moral errors, faults, and crimes than our ignorance.

Belief is not the beginning of knowledge- it is the end.

nothing is more frightful than to see ignorance in action

Oh happy he who still can hope in our day to breathe the truth while plunged in seas of error! What we don't know is really what we need, and what we know is of no use to us whatever!

A person who does not know the history of the last 3,000 years wanders in the darkness of ignorance, unable to make sense of the reality around him

If we are to strive as human beings to gain more wisdom, more kindness and more compassion, we must have the intention to grow as a lotus and open each petal one by one.

To ACCEPT something and suffer is to become a victim. To accept that something is AS IT IS and then let it go or say no is to be ENLIGHTENED.

I am grateful for emphasis on reading the scriptures. I hope that for you this will become something far more enjoyable than a duty; that, rather, it will become a love affair with the word of God. I promise you that as you read, your minds will be enlightened and your spirits will be lifted. At first it may seem tedious, but that will change into a wondrous experience with thoughts and words of things divine. Gordon B. Hinckley

Books light the world — to burn them extinguishes the flame.

Before you can break out of prison, you must first realize you're locked up.

What we have done for ourselves alone, dies with us; what we have done for others and the world, remains and is immortal. No man, however lofty and however humble, can isolate himself from his kind, and, shutting himself up in the dark cell of his exclusiveness, determine to live for himself alone. No man, however obscure, can truly say that he is so unknown, and so unimportant, that he can contribute nothing to enlighten and benefit Humanity... Let us grow in Love as well as in Knowledge...

It was illumination, a great light in the darkness of his ignorance, and he read poetry more avidly than ever.

The moment that he knew, he ceased to know.

He does not lose anything, for with the loss of himself he loses the knowledge of loss.

All knowledge is worth having