Quotes About Enlightenment

My own awakening feels as momentous. I too am blanketed, my harsh edges obscured and transformed.

When mysteries shall be revealed; All secrets be unsealed; When things of night, when things of shame, Shall find at last a name… ~ Sooner or Later: Yet at Last

Blindur er boklaus madur - Blind is the bookless man.

Mine was a single, highly individual case and the doctors had proceeded along the lines they felt would be most beneficial to me alone, with my full knowledge, approval, and consent. Beyond that, I had no advice for anyone...help for others could only come from the acceptance and enlightenment of the public and the medical profession.

Buddha had said to make a light of yourself, and if Laurie had anything to say about it, one day he'd glow.

Even those who were ignorant of the word of God were not entirely deprived of divine light,

In the upper echelons of the Church, the authoritarian and anti-liberal elements within fascism resonated with those – and they included Pius XI – who had come to see the turmoil and conflict that had convulsed the world in recent decades as symptoms of the deep moral malaise that had afflicted Western society since the time of the Enlightenment, with its corrosive doctrines of rights and popular sovereignty.

In dark ages people are best guided by religion, as in a pitch-black night a blind man is the best guide; he knows the roads and paths better than a man who can see. When daylight comes, however, it is foolish to use blind, old men as guides.

The Bourbon King was first ambassador of reason and human happiness.

I can see in what you call the dark, but which to me is golden.

2 Rien de réel ne peut être menacé. 3 Rien d'irréel n'existe.

Here is your declaration of release from bondage of the world. And here as well is all the world released. You do not see what you have done by giving to the world the role of jailer to the Son of God.

Por qué esperar al Cielo? Los que buscan la luz están simplemente cubriéndose los ojos. 3 La luz ya está en ellos. 4 La iluminación es simplemente un reconocimiento, no un cambio.

Before the soul can see, the Harmony within must be attained, and fleshly eyes be rendered blind to all illusion.

There is no higher religion than the truth.

We are consciousness wanting to expand.

En vérité, celui qui ne connaît pas la colère ne sait rien».

Ibn Arabi was above all the disciple of Khidr ( Khidr). We shall attempt further on to indicate what it signifies and implies to be "the disciple of Khidr." In any event such a relationship with a hidden spiritual master lends the disciple an essentially "transhistorical" dimension and presupposes an ability to experience events which are enacted in a reality other than the physical reality of daily life, events which spontaneously transmute themselves into symbols.

Knowledge does not come to us in details, but in flashes of light from heaven.

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

A grain of gold will gild a great surface, but not so much as a grain of wisdom. - from Live Without Principle

O! more than Gothic ignorance.

To call this a society of free peoples is blasphemous. What have we to offer the world beside the superabundant loot which we recklessly plunder from the earth under the maniacal delusion that this insane activity represents progress and enlightenment?

Serenity is when you get above all this, when it doesn't matter what they think, say or want, but when you do as you are, and see God and Devil as one.