Quotes About Enlightenment

She lay in the dark and knew everything.

Strip the veneer, and the world had moved only a couple of steps from the cave.

Maxwell's equations didn't just change the world. They opened up a new one.

Inner Knowledge -- You want to become wise in one lesson: First become a real human being.

Wisdom is when you understand what, previously, at best you only knew.

People who speak or act in an ordinary fashion are most likely to be those who have been the recipients of higher experiences. But because they do not rage around, wild-eyed, people think that they are very ordinary folk and therefore not aware of anything unknown to the general run of man.

One of the great Sufis said: 'A saint is a saint unless he knows that he is one.

When humility is exercised, people begin to realise that they do not, as it were, exist at all.

Only the search for truth is valid, the desire for wisdom the motive. The method is assimilation, not study.

A generous person may not have wisdom: but, unlike others, he has the means to gain it.

Sufis aim to refine human consciousness. This is Sufi mysticism: not mystification or magic, but a specific Path.

The secret of Sufism is that it has no secret at all'.

He who knows himself, knows his Lord' means, among other things, that self-deception prevents knowledge.

The automatism of man is overcome, in the words of Dhun'Nun, by aiming for 'being as you were, where you were, before you were'.

What you are seeking in your retreat, I see clearly in every road and alleyway.

You can learn more in half an hour's direct contact with a source of knowledge (no matter the apparent reason for the contact or the subject of the transaction) than you can in years of formal effort.

A man's capacity is the same as his breadth of vision.

It is axiomatic that the attempt to become a Sufi through a desire for personal power as normally understood will not succeed.

A man must be a Salomon before his magical ring will work. (Hafiz)

Definitions from Mulla Do-Piaza Wisdom: Something you can learn without knowing it.

Muchas cosas que son llamadas "secretos" son únicamente cosas que les son negadas a la gente hasta que puedan comprenderlas o efectivamente vivenciarlas.

When prayer, rituals and ascetic life are just a means of self-indulgence, they are harmful rather than beneficial. This is quite obvious to people nowadays, when it is widely recognised that fixations are not the same as valuable and laudable observances. One should not pray if that prayer is vanity; rituals are wrong when they provide lower satisfactions, like emotional stimulus instead of enlightenment; he or she should not be an ascetic who is only enjoying it.

P: ¿Cuál es el error fundamental del hombre? R: Pensar que está vivo, cuando simplemente se ha dormido en la antesala de la vida.

You may not appreciate Sufism at first, but once you do you will appreciate it until the end of your days.