Quotes About Enlightenment

So did Katagiri fail, and am I a failure because I can't remember what Buddhism is—and are all the rest of us failures, as it seems, when contrasted against our early pure and simple expectations and the clear-cut enlightenment of the story books?

You'd probably start laughing because you'd realize that your fears had been the result of a gigantic cosmic joke that had persisted throughout all of your previous reincarnations.

Instant enlightenment is to give all your happiness away to others.

A day in which you learn something isn't a complete loss.

When ignorance is bliss, there's folly in wisdom.

Then you've learned something today. No day in which you learn something is a complete loss.

No day in which you learn something is a complete loss.

Everything is idiocy if you choose to look at it in the proper light, he replied philosophically.

There are professors, Plantinga drily notes, who have left faculty meetings feeling more enlightened by what they said than by what they heard!

David Foster Wallace

The kid has to learn by his own experience how to learn to balance the short- and long-term pursuit of what he wants.' 'He must be freely enlightened to self.' 'This is the crux of the educational system you find so appalling. Not to teach what to desire. To teach how to be free. To teach how to make knowledgeable choices about pleasure and delay and the kid's overall down-the-road maximal interests.

the mystic approaches the hot-dog stand and tells the vendor Make me one with everything.

Nourish it with good works, give it peace in solitude, get it strength in prayer, make it wise with reading, enlighten it by meditation, make it tender with love, sweeten it with humility, humble it with penance, enliven it with psalms and hymns, and comfort it with frequent reflections upon future glory.

I say, there is no darkness but ignorance; in which thou art more puzzled than the Egyptians in their fog.

We, ignorant of ourselves, Beg often our own harms, which the wise powers Deny us for our good; so find we profit By losing of our prayers.

At first I did adore a twinkling star But now I worship a celestial sun

There is no darkness but ignorance.

Ignorance is the curse of God; knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.

Madman, thou errest. I say, there is no darkness but ignorance, in which thou art more puzzled than the Egyptians in their fog.

It is I am sure a kind of unorthodoxy, and considered thus by some," I hear my master say (I resume my station, still flustered and with a madly working heart), "but it is my conviction that the more religiously and intellectually enlightened a Negro is made, the better for himself, his master, and the commonweal.

People of true understanding nourish sages and through them, nourish the whole world.

By consciously seeking enlightenment, you will progress quickly, receiving the rewards of ever-greater enjoyment, peace, success, good fortune, and well-being.

The Four Noble Truths The Dharma teaches the Buddhists the ways to progress or reach nirvana.  In this light, the Dharma teaches that the journey to nirvana should involve following the Four Noble Truths referred to as Pativedhanana or the "wisdom of realization."  According to the Buddha, the four truths center around the following concepts: 1) universality of suffering; 2) origin of suffering; 3) overcoming of suffering; and 4) the suppression of suffering. The

Religion? Mr Kumar grinned broadly. I don't believe in religion. Religion is darkness.