Quotes About Enlightenment

This is about a new phase in history where art, science, business, and spirit will join together, both externally and internally, in the pursuit of true wealth.

All they really knew were two darknesses, the darkness of their lives, which was now closing in on them, and the darkness of the movies, which had blinded them to that other darkness

it was a little bit like being hit by a truck ... but it was the most beautiful thing that ever happened to me.

If the Truth is already clear, what is the use of meditation?' Ã¢â'¬Â " Ã¢â'¬ËœAnd if the Truth is hidden?' Ã¢â'¬Â Toranaga said. " Ã¢â'¬ËœIt's already clear,' Ã¢â'¬Â Hiro-matsu answered correctly. The quotation was from the ancient Tantric Buddhist teacher, Saraha.

A lot of bull that's worshipped as the be-all and end-all of existence. So much of 'normal, civilized' life is bull that you can't imagine it. For us ex-Changi-ites—we're lucky, we're cleansed, we know what life is really all about. What frightens you, doesn't frighten me, what frightens me, you'd laugh at.

It's all so simple, Anjin-san. Just change your concept of the world.

priest or cult or dogma or book or saying or teaching or teacher stands between Thou and It. Know that Good and Evil are irrelevant, I and Thou irrelevant, Inside and Outside irrelevant as are Life and Death. Enter into the Sphere where there is no fear of death nor hope of afterlife, where thou art free of the impediments of life or the needs of salvation. Thou art thyself the Tao. Be thou, now, a rock against which the waves of life rush in vain

ways of prayer often call forth a kind of knowing that passes beyond clear ideas and the ordinary way of thinking.

This country has been unconscious, and it's got to awake. That's my belief.

Our world is limited by the machinery we carry. It's very different to the 18th and 19th century Enlightenment scientists who were mostly men of God and thought it was their quest to uncover God's great plan.

I would like to uncover the secrets of the universe.

It is impossible to make people understand their ignorance, for it requires knowledge to perceive it; and, therefore, he that can perceive it hath it not.

As I understand it, laws, commands, rules and edicts are for those who have not the light which makres plain the pathway.

I used to think 'King Lear' was an analysis of insanity, but I don't really think it is. When Lear is supposed to be at his most insane, he is actually understanding the world for the first time.

I don't think you automatically become an enlightened person because you are a daddy. But they will change you, of course - their understanding of you puts you in a different place.

It is a great blessing to have light in our lives - a light that helps us see things as they really are, light that illuminates our understanding, light we can follow with confidence and perfect trust.

Meditation demands an astonishingly alert mind; it is the understanding of the totality of life in which every form of fragmentation has ceased.

We are either going to dissolve as a human race or we are going to break through into a new understanding of what it is to be a human being.

Learn to see a problem from a higher level of understanding. Then, it dissolves before your eyes.

This is the great object held out by this association; and the means of attaining it is illumination, enlightening the understanding by the sun of reason which will dispell the clouds of superstition and of prejudice.

To see nothing is to perceive the Way, and to understand nothing is to know the Dharma, because seeing is neither seeing nor not seeing and because understanding is neither understanding nor not understanding.

Power is the by-product of understanding.

Yes, now I understood for the first time that my soul was not so poor and empty as it had seemed to me, and that it had been only the sun that was lacking to open all its germs, and buds to the light.

What is divine? Simply that which man has not yet been able to understand. Once understood, it ceases to be divine.