Quotes About Enlightenment

If a man is unable to find the way to Jesus, he ought to be led. It is good work this bringing the blind to Him who alone can give them sight.

I've never stopped learning.

We are a nation that is unenlightened because of religion. I do believe that. I think religion stops people from thinking. I think it justified crazies.

One must realise his Self in order to open the store of unalloyed happiness.

Their attempts to make sense of the world had carried heat but little light.

the post-Enlightenment West is seen as exceptional, completely unlike anything else that has preceded it and unlike anything elsewhere in the world. This is a dangerous misprision. To the religious, it can suggest that belief is somehow universal, essential to the human condition, and that creeping secularism is an unnatural state. Atheists,

we see that the enlightened monopolist can occasionally prove a delusional paranoid.

There are many things of which a wise man might wish to be ignorant. —RALPH WALDO EMERSON (1803–1882)

A Buddhist Perspective on the Teachings of Jesus." I really, really, really loved the book. What I liked the most was the Dalai Lama's guidance on converting to Buddhism. He wrote that if you are part of another religion, please do not convert to Buddhism. Your fastest path to enlightenment and peace of mind and your own good heart is in the religion that you are in.

Tirando cenizas sobre el Buda (La Liebre de Marzo, 1991), del maestro zen Seung Sahn,

Cartas de un maestro de zen (Dharma, 1998).»

CHAPTER 1. THE GOSPEL OF GNOSIS   I will reveal to you what no eye can see, what no ear can hear, what no hand can touch, what cannot be conceived by the human mind. Jesus, The Gospel of Thomas

Friedrich Nietzsche: "If Luther had been burned like Hus, the dawn of the Enlightenment might perhaps have come a little earlier and more brilliantly than we can now imagine.

Turn on, tune in and drop out.

Turn on, Tune in, Drop out

Open, Lord, my mouth to bless your holy name; cleanse my heart from all empty, evil, or distracting thoughts; enlighten my mind, enkindle my heart, that I may recite this Office worthily, attentively, and devoutly, and may merit to be heard in the sight of your divine majesty. Through Christ Our Lord. Amen." Latin

detto tibetano: «Se c'è venerazione, anche il dente d'un cane emette luce».

Bisognava entrare nei recessi di quello straordinario palazzo al buio, e solo lentamente scoprire, nella luce tramolante delle lampade al burro, le smorfie delle ogre e i sorrisi benevoli dei Buddha. Il neon pra impedisce ogni scoperta, tarpa le ali a chi voglia ancora abbandonarsi ai voli dello spirito.

De waarheid is een land zonder wegen

On n'a rien trouvé, on n'a rien inventé. Nous ne pouvons rien savoir sinon que nous ne savons rien. C'est là le degré suprême de la sagesse humaine. (Guerre et Paix, livre deuxième, 2ième partie, ch. I)

I have learned what must be, and therefore have come to see the whole horror of what is.

When you understand one thing through and through, you understand everything.

The only good is knowledge, and the only evil is ignorance.

My education has allowed me to be more open to ideas which I would not have been had I not been as educated.