Quotes About Enlightenment

Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.

A pure woman is better than a hundred yogis. Women are more open to love God.

Strengthen the female mind by enlarging it, and there will be an end to blind obedience.

If you spent one-tenth of the time you devoted to distractions like chasing women or making money to spiritual practice, you would be enlightened in a few years.

Till women are more rationally educated, the progress in human virtue and improvement in knowledge must receive continual checks.

If you meet the Buddha in the lane, feed him the ball.

My whole reason for creating a network is literally to bring little pieces of light. It's to continue to spread little pieces of light in the world, to illuminate the possibility of the human spirit.

The progress of freedom depends more upon the maintenance of peace, the spread of commerce, and the diffusion of education, than upon the labors of cabinets and foreign offices.

That is a lot of the reason I do what I do, to really spread the word and spread information and turn people onto different things they may not be, y'know, aware of. That is what Naked City is certainly about.

I was already writing about the idea of a 'multiverse' in the 1970s, though I might have called it the 'pluriverse.' How was I to know it would turn out to be the standard model? Actually, I consider myself an enlightenment fossil.

Matangi's mantra is aim, which is MIA backwards. She fights for freedom of speech and stands for truth, and lives in the ghetto because her dad was the first person in Hindu mythology who came from the 'hood, but had gained enlightenment through not being a Brahmin.

The free man cannot be long an ignorant man.

Man will become better when you show him what he is like.

Much of the evil in the world is due to the fact that man in general is hopelessly unconscious.

I look to the diffusion of light and education as the resource most to be relied on for ameliorating the condition, promoting the virtue and advancing the happiness of man.

To live without killing is a thought which could electrify the world, if men were only capable of staying awake long enough to let the idea soak in.

It matters little whether a man be mathematically or philologically or artistically cultivated, so he be but cultivated.

God, move that man on into the place where he comprehends what Christianity is.

It is a shame to confess but among all living creatures only man doesn't know what is useful for him.

There is probably no more terrible instant of enlightenment than the one in which you discover your father is a man - with human flesh.

The man of control lives in choice, and the man of understanding lives in choicelessness.

Without seeing the origin of light, the true form of one's Self, the ordinary man sees by the mind different things and is deluded.

Man is but a beast without it: such a glorious god is Learning.

Godliness is the fragrance of the man who has attained enlightenment.