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Quotes About Enlightenment

Who knows whence he comes, where he is, and whither he tends, he, and he alone, is wise.
~ Johann Kaspar Lavater
The flame is not as bright to itself as it is to those it illuminates: so too the sage.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Wisdom, properly so called, is nothing else but this: the perfect knowledge of the truth in all matters whatsoever.
~ Thomas Hobbes
When you meditate and still your mind, you will gain the wisdom of knowing things in this world, in other worlds and beyond worlds - it just comes to you.
~ Frederick Lenz
The truth is that you are the instrument of God, that you have to become one with God, that you have to be born again.
~ Nirmala Srivastava
Every increase in knowledge requires an increase in wisdom
~ Bertrand Russell
Success is when the whole gets enlightened. When you become one with the whole, that's the real success.
~ Nirmala Srivastava
A philosopher's a lover of wisdom.
~ Cornel West
The universe is perfection. But there are different views that universe provides for itself to view itself. Beyond all views there is nirvana.
~ Frederick Lenz
We achieve self knowledge through the Kundalini. Now the journey starts towards God knowledge. Without self knowledge one cannot know about God as actualised knowledge.
~ Nirmala Srivastava
All the religions have deviated from its roots, and the main thing was that you must have your Realization, you must have your Spirit. Once you become the Spirit then you understand the religion.
~ Nirmala Srivastava
The small wisdom is like water in a glass:clear, transparent, pure.The great wisdom is like the water in the sea:dark, mysterious, impenetrable.
~ Rabindranath Tagore
It is a man's duty to have books. A library is not a luxury, but one of the necessaries in life.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
Lao Tzu "The key to growth is the introductionof higher dimensions of consciousnessinto our awareness.
~ Lao Tzu
In pursuit of knowledge, every day something is acquired. In pursuit of wisdom, every day something is dropped.
~ Lao Tzu
The kingdom of heaven in not a place but a state of mind.
~ John Burroughs
I have always considered David Hume as approaching as nearly the idea of a perfectly wise and virtuous man as perhaps the nature of human frailty will allow.
~ Adam Smith
Religious nuts, atheists, theists, as too most scientists fail to "get" IT - the Ultimate Reality - because they seek it through ego.
~ Fakeer Ishavardas
We are all born to fly. Instead, we sit on the branches afraid of the leap into the unknown. But the unknown is where enlightenment lives. Our true nature is the unknown.
~ Enza Vita
Teach the ignorant. Study the wise. Avoid the foolish. Embrace the enlightened.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
The quest for knowledge and wisdom is true connection to divinity.
~ Lailah GiftyAkita
Love is the best wisdom.
~ Debasish Mridha
Life is a series of awakenings.
~ Swami Mukerji
.. The point of human life is to travel from ignorance to wisdom. In ignorance there is fear. In wisdom there peace and tranquillity.
~ Devdutt Pattanaik