Quotes About Enlightenment

about Voltaire)...he was generally unbedeviled by any foolish consistency.

Ignorance is of a peculiar nature: once dispelled, it is impossible to re-establish it. It is not originally a thing of itself, but is only the absence of knowledge; and though man may be kept ignorant, he cannot be made ignorant.

Where knowledge is a duty, ignorance is a crime.

The most formidable weapon against errors of every kind is Reason.

Ä°nsan, Tanr?'y? ak?l yürütme yoluyla keÅŸfedebilir.

Ignorance is of a peculiar nature: once dispelled, it is impossible to reestablish it. It is not originally a thing of itself, but is only the absence of knowledge; and though man may be kept ignorant, he cannot be made ignorant. The mind, in discovering truth, acts in the same manner as it acts through the eye in discovering objects; when once any object has been seen, it is impossible to put the mind back to the same condition it was in before it saw it.

Science, the partisan of no country, but the beneficent patroness of all, has liberally opened a temple where all may meet. Her influence on the mind, like the sun on the chilled earth, has long been preparing it for higher cultivation and further improvement. The philosopher of one country sees not an enemy in the philosophy of another: he takes his seat in the temple of science, and asks not who sits beside him. —Thomas Paine, 1778

Science, the partisan of no country, but the beneficent patroness of all, has liberally opened a temple where all may meet. Her influence on the mind, like the sun on the chilled earth, has long been preparing it for higher cultivation and further improvement. The philosopher of one country sees not an enemy in the philosophy of another: he takes his seat in the temple of science, and asks not who sits beside him. —Thomas Paine, 17781

Her türlü yanl??a kar?? en amans?z silah Ak?l'd?r.

H?ristiyan inanc?n?n destekçileri ya da taraftarlar? inanmasa ya da kabul etmese de cehalet dönemi H?ristiyanl?k sistemiyle baÅŸlam??t?r

We find also here Charles Haanel, with his Master Key System, and his Eastern Philosophy books like "The Amazing Secrets of the Yogi".

There exists in this country a serious personal motivational problem related to undesirable attitudes toward care of public and private property, quality of work, integrity, accepting responsibility, serving the public, working in private industry, accepting change, etc.," one memorandum said. "The foremost problem facing the Kingdom may well be to modify the value system as it relates to achieving appropriate personal enlightenment.

Seguramente la ignorancia en estos días es grande. Una cosa es no saber, otra cosa es no estar dispuesto a saber: "los hombres amaron más las tinieblas que la luz" (Juan 3:19).

This light does that which no other light can. It makes a man perceive himself to be blind.

We may read many truths in the Bible, but we cannot know them savingly, till God by his Spirit shines upon our soul.

Thornton Wilder

The further the creation is from the Centre, the more it is bound; the nearer the Centre it reaches, the nearer Free is it.

And we caution all students to be sure to grasp the Divine Paradox of the Absolute and Relative, lest they become entangled in the mire of the Half-Truth. With this in view this particular lesson has been written. Read it carefully!

We take great pleasure in presenting to the attention of students and investigators of the Secret Doctrines

Dondequiera que estén las huellas del Maestro, allí, los oídos del que está pronto para recibir sus enseñanzas se abren de par en par». Y además: «Cuando el oído es capaz de oír, entonces vienen los labios que han de llenarlos con sabiduría».

But this may be said here, that those who have attained high spiritual powers and have misused them, have a terrible fate in store for them, and the swing of the pendulum of Rhythm will inevitably swing them back to the furthest extreme of Material existence, from which point they must retrace their steps Spiritward, along the weary rounds of The Path, but always with the added torture of having always with them a lingering memory of the heights from which they fell owing to their evil actions.

The disturbing attitudes and negative emotions, such as clinging attachment, anger, and ignorance are the real source of our unhappiness.

Vesak Day, May 31, 2007

El budismo nos guía hacia la felicidad suprema, la cual proviene de la transformación de nuestra mente. Buda observó que cuando estamos apegados a los objetos de los sentidos, nos sentimos finalmente desdichados.