Quotes About Enlightenment

Literature is man's exploration of man by artificial light, which is better than natural light because we can direct it where we want.

It is the wise man's part to leave in darkness everything that is ugly.

The man who never reads lives only one.

If, then, faith widens the connections, it elevates the man.

You must learn to see men and women...as perfect beings advancing to become complete.

Without mysticism man can achieve nothing great.

It has taken us that long to get the deaf, dumb, and blind black men in the wilderness of North America to wake up and understand who they are.

The most noble cause known to man is the liberation of the human mind and spirit.

But Jesus has been depicted as a serious man. And Christians say he never laughed. Then what is the function of an Enlightened man? If Jesus cannot laugh, then who is going to laugh in this world?

Passing into higher forms of desire, that which slumbered in the plant, and fitfully stirred in the beast, awakes in the man.

The function of art is to free the spirit of man and to invigorate and enlarge his vision.

The wise man puts himself last and finds himself first.

Were there no men of vision, all who are blind would be dead.

Man is the highest being in creation, because he attains to freedom.

It is a very lonely life that a man leads, who becomes aware of truths before their times.

He should discard the texts altogether, as the man who seeks rice discards the husk.

If a man who enjoys a lesser happiness beholds a greater one, let him leave aside the lesser to gain the greater.

Wonder of wonders! Intrinsically all living beings are Buddhas, endowed with wisdom and virtue, but because men's minds have become inverted through delusive thinking they fail to perceive this.

The masters are men like us who have evolved ahead of us and come to the end of the evolution as a human being on planet earth.

Jowett, in his day, did probably more than any other single man to let some fresh air into the exhausted atmosphere of the [Oxford] common rooms, and to widen the intellectual horizons of the place.

The greatest education man has to learn is the science of self.

The highest practice is the one that is most effective, not necessarily the one categorized as "higher.

For example, when practitioners transform into Shenlha Ökar (Shen Deity of White Light), they visualize their bodies as being adorned with the thirteen ornaments of peacefulness that in themselves evoke the enlightened quality of peacefulness.2 Shenlha Ökar himself embodies all six of the antidote qualities of love, generosity, wisdom, openness, peacefulness, and compassion; so as soon as you transform into Shenlha Ökar, you instantly embody these same qualities.

Because karmic traces are the roots of dreams, when they are entirely exhausted only the pure light of awareness remains: no movie, no story, no dreamer and no dream, only the luminous fundamental nature that is absolute reality. This is why enlightenment is the end of dreams and is known as "awakening.