Quotes About Enlightenment

You may observe in all my lessons, that I tell you how the legs go, and those who are unacquainted with that, are entirely ignorant and work in the dark.

All of the things I used to obsess over, I'm no longer as obsessed with. I have new concerns but they're a little more existential or cosmic.

It is at best insufficient and at worst inaccurate to settle on a definition of the Enlightenment, for the obvious reason that there was not just one.

I am not here only so that the blind might see, but to teach those who thought they could see that they are blind

The creative thought principle is very important, for as Gautama Buddha declared, "The mind is everything; what you think you become.

the more I seek, the less I find.

We have been so blinded by thinking and feeling that we have never seen the World.

When you know better...You do better.

What I know for sure is that reading opens you up. It exposes you and gives you access to anything your mind can hold. What I love most about reading: It gives you the ability to reach higher ground. And keep climbing.

It isn't until you come to a spiritual understanding of who you are - not necessarily a religious feeling, but deep down, the spirit within - that you can begin to take control.

and I believe that education is the door to freedom

When you know better, you do better." —Maya Angelou

Quando não tem nada do que se envergonhar, quando sabe quem é e quais são as suas crenças, você alcança a sabedoria.

A New Earth, by Eckhart Tolle

Those who can truly see, know.

what I really hoped to find on these trips wandering the shops, the cinemas, and the museums of the Western world was an idea, an object, a painting - anything at all - that might transform and illuminate my own life.

The man who is mentally expanding, who is constantly growing larger and becoming broader, fuller, completer, does not age nearly as rapidly as the man who has ceased to grow.

Madness, and then illumination.

Ender was a destroyer, but what he destroyed was illusion, and the illusion had to die...the truth about ourselves. Somehow this ancient man is able to see the truth and it doesn't blind his eyes or drive him mad. I must listen to this voice and let its power come to me so I, too, can stare at the light and not die.

From you I can learn things that nobody knows.

Peregrinos viajeros hacia el altar de la inteligencia

Oh," said Wheaton. "Oh, I see. Yes, that does bring mathematics into it.

Above his desk he tacked a line he remembered from the Persian poet, Rumi: Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I have begun to change myself.

Ignorance is the night of the mind, but a night without moon or star.