Quotes About Enlightenment

The actions of m?y? are such that a powerful person, misled by the illusory, material energy, wrongly accepts himself as all in all and does not develop God consciousness.

Great literature should do some good to the reader: must quicken his perception though dull, and sharpen his discrimination though blunt, and mellow the rawness of his personal opinions.

To know all is an impossible dream; but woe unto him who dares not to learn all, and who does not know that, in order to know anything, one must learn eternally!

Le savant a pris la science, le renonçant a pris le renoncement, le dévot a pris les dévotions, et tous s'en est allés ainsi à Sa rencontre. Prends la pureté et cours à Sa rencontre car c'est Lui le plus pur.

Il existe trois étapes vers la perfection pour les hommes. la première consiste à te connaitre, comme Dieu te connait -et je ne connais personne qui ait une telle connaissance de soi- , la deuxième consiste à ce que tu sois avec Dieu et à ce qu'Il soit, et la troisième consiste à ce que tu ne sois plus et que tout soit Lui.

If we mean to have Heroes, Statesmen and Philosophers, we should have learned women. The world perhaps would laugh at me, and accuse me of vanity, but you I know have a mind too enlarged and liberal to disregard the Sentiment. If much depends as is allowed upon the early Education of youth and the first principals which are instill'd take the deepest root, great benefit must arise from literary accomplishments in women.

I don't think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.

G is Grace, the Flaming Star is the Torch of Reason. Those who possess this knowledge are indeed Illuminati.

I saw an exhibition of paintings of alchemists once,' said Ruth. 'It used to be a popular setpiece. There was one I liked by Joseph Wright of Derby?of an alchemist who'd accidentally discovered phosphorus. He's just crouching there, staring in amazement at his test tube or alembic, or whatever you call it. A bloody good painting, actually.

Faith is a continuum, and we each fall on that line where we may. By attempting to rigidly classify ethereal concepts like faith, we end up debating semantics to the point where we entirely miss the obvious - that is, that we are all trying to decipher life's big mysteries, and we're each following our own paths of enlightenment.

Perceive that which cannot be seen with the eye.

We are enslaved by anything we do not consciously see. We are freed by conscious perception.

I've had - I don't really know how to describe them, except moments of 'extrasensory perception' of some sort. I've also had sort of a 'white light' moment.

Anything that opens up people's perceptions a bit is good.

Morality will perform all this; and Morality is the fruit of Illumination.

The knowledge from an enlightened person breaks on the hard rocks of ignorance.

Humanity makes continual progress toward truth, and light ever triumphs over darkness.

I'd like to know what this whole show is all about before it's out.

Knowing what Thou knowest not Is in a sense Omniscience.

Blessed is the person who has passed the teachings of secrets. That person knows the source of life as well as his goal.

Behold! human beings living in an underground den…. Like ourselves… they see only their own shadows, or the shadows of one another, which the fire throws on the opposite wall of the cave.

The learning and knowledge that we have, is, at the most, but little compared with that of which we are ignorant.

We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.

I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.