Quotes About Enlightenment

the sage dresses plainly, even though his interior is filled with precious gems.

Tao Te Ching for

el satori es una experiencia súbita y se lo describe a menudo como un «vuelco» de la mente

As your thinking changes from a position dictated by your ego to one that transcends it, you'll see an illuminated world that is truly inviting.

The ultimate act that enlightens involves no action at all.

One who understands others has knowledge; one who understands himself has wisdom.

Science has thoroughly desacrilized the universe.

When you thought you were drowning, what did you desire most?" The man gasped, "Air." Back came Buddha's reply, "When you want salvation as much as you wanted air, then you will get it.

People in darkness don't know they're in darkness because it's all they've ever known. It's their world. They navigate primarily by bumping off things that are stronger. Immovable. They don't know darkness is darkness until someone turns on a light. Only then does the darkness roll back like a scroll. It has to. Darkness can't stand light. And it hasn't. Not since God spoke it into existence.

As knowledge increases, wonder deepens. (Thanks Joe P. for the quote)

One to whom books are as strangers has not yet learned to live. He is a solitary, though he dwell amid a vast population. On the other hand, he to whom books are as friends possesses a Key to the Garden of Delights, where the purest pleasures are open for his entertainment, and where he has for his companions the master minds of all the ages.

In the dark to see, you ass-scratchers! In the dark to see.

The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is the knowledge of our own ignorance.

An unschooled man who knows how to meditate upon the Lord has learned far more than the man with the highest education who does not know how to meditate.

Many felt a profound malaise at the idea that the sources of benevolence should be just enlightened self-interest, or simply feelings of sympathy. This seemed to neglect altogether the human power of self-transcendence, the capacity to go beyond self-related desire altogether and follow a higher aspiration. This

Enlightenment is not something you achieve. It is the absence of something. All your life you have been going forward after something, pursuing some goal. Enlightenment is dropping all that.

Buddhism] takes us beyond a kind of self-centered narcissism because instead of identifying with the content of our experience, we identify with awareness itself.

the human mind was no better than in its earliest period of savagery, only better informed

Look closely at wisdom – there is a very small space between "wiz" and "dumb" -

With all your science can you tell how it is, and whence it is, that light comes into the soul?

...a soul flowering with spirituality...

It is alike your interest and mine and all men's, however long we have dwelt in lies, to live in truth.

Virtue is an angel, but she is a blind one, and must ask of Knowledge to show her the pathway that leads to her goal.

I've only yet to see the apparition of enlightenment, and it always slips past in my periphery.