Quotes About Enlightenment

By whatever path you go, you will have to lose yourself in the one. Surrender is complete only when you reach the stage 'Thou art all' and 'Thy will be done'.

Painting is a means of self-enlightenment.

The purpose of art is to raise people to a higher level of awareness than they would otherwise attain on their own.

When it's cold, water freezes into ice; when it's warm, ice melts into water. Similarly, when you are confused, essence freezes into mind; when you are enlightened, mind melts into essence.

Understand that the essence of martial arts is not the art itself, but what's hidden deep within yourself.

Art hath an enemy called ignorance.

Exposure to the arts and culture is enormously valuable.

Indifference to the fine arts comes close to barbarism.

Others abide our question. Thou art free. We ask and ask. Thou smilest and art still, Out-topping knowledge.

I still think of Heaven as a liberal-arts school.

The greatest art is philosophy.

Art is a necessity, an essential part of our enlightenment process.

The highest art one can learn is the art of loving, and that the ultimate creativity and the highest art are born out of a knack - meditation.

Advanced Buddhist Yoga is the art of altering your karmic patterns.

If you seek to develop the mind fully, for the enlightenment process, you will benefit if your career is related to computer science, law, medicine, or the arts.

The art of printing secures us against the retrogradation of reason and information.

Music is energy, emotion, expression, escapism, enlightenment. Music is so much more than just entertainment.

The words that enlighten the soul are more precious than jewels.

No matter what verbal space you try to enclose Zen in, it resists, and spills over... the Zen attitude is that words and truth are incompatible, or at least that no words can capture truth.

If you'd like to have a better incarnation, then have one now. If that's your attitude, just let go and meditate and try to be as wise and compassionate, as understanding as you can.

The one big surprise is that as it turns out, God is the sun. It makes sense, if you think about it. Why we didn't see it sooner I cannot say. Every day the sun was right there burning, our and other planets hovering around it, always apologizing and we didn't think it was God. Why would there be a God and also a sun? Of course God is the sun. Everyone in the life before was cranky, I think, because they just wanted to know.

Poverty in black families headed by single women is thirty-seven percent. The undeniable truth is that neither slavery nor Jim Crow nor the harshest racism has decimated the black family the way the welfare state has. The black family structure is not the only retrogression suffered by blacks in the age of racial enlightenment.

Children of the Enlightenment do not, of course, dwell overly on the dreadful acts undertaken in its name when the Enlightenment first became a living historical force in France: all perished, all—/Friends, enemies, of all parties, ages, ranks, /Head after head, and never heads enough /For those that bade them fall.

The health of an enlightened and progressive society is measured by how vibrant is its science fiction, since that is where true self-critique and appraisal and hope lie.