Quotes About Enlightenment

What human beings seek to learn from nature is how to use it to dominate wholly both it and human beings. Nothing else counts. Ruthless toward itself, the Enlightenment has eradicated the last remnant of its own self-awareness. Only thought which does violence to itself is hard enough to shatter myths.

A ciência ela própria não tem consciência de si, ela é um instrumento, enquanto o esclarecimento é a filosofia que identifica a verdade ao sistema científico.

In order to have wisdom we must have ignorance.

Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom.

The darkness has it's own light.

Books are the ammunition of life.

The Maestro spoke again. "When we are not, at what point do we become?" I could not reply. For I had grasped no shape of his thoughts. I understood neither what he said nor his intent behind it.

We are here to awaken from our illusion of separateness.

The way to accomplish oneself as Guru Rinpoche Is all rooted in the Seven-Line Prayer. The seven consciousnesses of the basis,215 While on the path, become the seven branches of enlightenment.216 The result is perfected in the seven absolute treasures.217 In this way, with the sound of this vajra melody, The moment you invoke me, I, Padmasambhava, Have no choice but to come to bless you.

The more a man hath unity and simplicity in himself, the more things and the deeper things he understandeth;

Of all human pursuits, the pursuit of wisdom is the most perfect, the most sublime, the most useful, and the most agreeable.

Love is ever the beginning of knowledge as fire is of light.

Because of barriers of knowledge, barriers of state, and barriers of action, seeing your own buddha nature is like seeing color at night.

Not diminishing the Way by the mind, not trying to help the divine by means of the human.

The Buddhas speak the wondrous sound throughout the world; the Teachings spoken over countless ages can all be expounded in a single word.

Everyone holds a luminous jewel, all embrace a precious gem; if you do not turn your attention around and look within, you will wander from home with a hidden treasure. Have you not heard it said, "In the ear it is like the great and small sounds in an empty valley, none not complete; in the eye it is like myriad images under a thousand suns, none able to avoid casting shadows"? If you seek it outside of sense experience, you will hinder the living meaning of Zen.

Do not think you will necessarily be aware of your own enlightenment.

A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life.

I have never said that there is no need for a guru. All depends on what you call guru. He need not be in a human form.

I don't know when network executives will get out of the Dark Ages.

The OWN network is all about inspiring and enlightening.

I love learning new things.

Real change isn't found in some new way to think about yourself, but in freedom from the need to think about yourself at all.

Prince didn't want to celebrate birthdays but to live life, to elevate and educate to the next level of enlightenment.