Quotes About Enlightenment

By ignorance the truth is known.

There is in God, some say, A deep but dazzling darkness, as men here Say it is late and dusky, because they See not all clear. O for that night! where I in Him Might live invisible and dim!

Nothing has been discovered, nothing has been invented. We can only know that we know nothing. And that's the highest degree of human wisdom.

I have discovered nothing. I have only found out what I knew. I understand the force that in the past gave me life, and now too gives me life. I have been set free from falsity, I have found the Master.

A man is never such an egotist as at moments of spiritual ecstasy. At such times it seems to him that there is nothing on earth more splendid and interesting than himself.

The soul of man is the lamp of God,' says a wise Jewish proverb. Man is a weak and miserable creature when God's light is not burning in his soul. But when it burns (and it only burns in souls enlightened by religion), man becomes the most powerful creature in the world. And it cannot be otherwise, for what then works in him is not his own strength, but the strength of God.

There is only one real knowledge: that which helps us to be free. Every other type of knowledge is mere amusement. —VISHNU PURANA,

The only thing that we know is that we know nothing, and that is the highest flight of human wisdom.

Add your light to the sum of light.

He continued to read every night, and the more he read the more clearly he understood what God required of him, and how he might live for God. And his heart grew lighter and lighter.

A man is never such an egotist as at moments of spiritual ecstasy. At

told him long ago: that God is here and everywhere. In his captivity he had learned that in Karataev God was greater, more infinite and unfathomable than in the Architect of the Universe recognized by the Freemasons. He felt like a man who after straining his eyes to see into the far distance finds what he sought at his very feet. All his life he had looked over the heads of the men around him, when he should have merely looked in front of him without straining his eyes.

And from the height of this perception all that had previously tormented and preoccupied him suddenly became illumined by a cold white light without shadows, without perspective, without distinction of outline. All life appeared to him like magic-lantern pictures at which he had long been gazing by artificial light through a glass. Now he suddenly saw those badly daubed pictures in clear daylight and without a glass.

No hay más remedio que alimentar el espíritu, para no dejarse caer en el embrutecimiento, en la suciedad, en la mediocridad

Nobody goes into a Zen monastery as a tourist.

Logic is the beginning of wisdom, not the end.

Live in the world, Yoga Science teaches, but be not of the world. Do not let yourself be defined or limited by that which decays and vanishes. In other words, do what is to be done, when it is to be done, moment by moment—based on the wise and good counsel of the buddhi—and the grace of the Divine Reality will bring you everything you need.

If I am not the body that was born and dies, and I am not the mind that always changes, then who am I? The One who is aware of the body, aware of the mind, and aware of the questions.

The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.

There are three classes of people: those who see. Those who see when they are shown. Those who do not see.

We spend our lives fighting to get people very slightly more stupid than ourselves to accept truths that the great men have always known.

He'd been free his whole life, if only he'd known it.

The higher you get the more you realize how much bigger than you everything is.

Dostoevsky's nature was two-fold, like Spinoza's, and like that of nearly all those who try to awaken humanity from its torpor.