Quotes About Enlightenment

To know of All must be so wonderful.

He who is influenced neither by the soaking in of slander nor by the assault of denunciation may indeed be called illumined.

To know that one knows what one knows, and to know that one doesn't know what one doesn't know, there lies true wisdom.

As Ram Dass puts it, "The ego is a tiny room. But the soul can merge into the One.

It says," I began slowly, "that a Light has come into this world, so that we need no longer walk in the dark. Is there darkness in your life, Lieutenant?

So pervasively has Enlightenment culture's anti-supernaturalism affected the Western church, especially educated European and North American Christians, that most of us are suspicious of anything supernatural.

Western theology invariably asks the question: Are miracles possible? This of course addresses the Enlightenment problem of a closed universe. In much of Asia that is a non-question because the miraculous is assumed and fairly regularly experienced.—Hwa Yung

and it's right on the spot. In fact, it

To walk the way of Wisdom is to become transparent to the Light that is your very being.

is to break through the bonds that attach the individual to the world of his senses and separate him from his eternal nature.

The problem with learning the truth about things is that you lose the confidence that comes from being dumb.

The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.

I wish to say to you that the life of an enlightened people and a vibrant nation cannot be measured by the life of an individual. A successful person is one who manages to lay down a new stone, a brick that would help firm up his nation's existence.

Ignorance is the primary source of all misery and vice.

We are victims of the post-Enlightenment view that the world functions like a sophisticated machine, to be understood like a textbook engineering problem and run by wonks. In other words, like a home appliance, not like the human body.

For so long, the world has viewed West Indian culture as semiliterate and backward, which it is not. In my work, I have tried to give that world an exposure so the world can better understand it.

How sad, I think now, to live an entire life blinded by the ordinary.

Education isn't for getting a job. It's about developing yourself as a human being.

To be a Sufi is to give up all worries and there is no worse worry than yourself. When you are occupied with self you are separated from God. The way to God is but one step: the step out of yourself. (Abu Sa'id Ibn Abi-l-khayr)

The Enlightenment values of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness are being reconfigured. Life now includes the larger life of the earth, individual freedom requires responsibility to community, and happiness is being defined as more than material goods.

Philosophy is for those, who feel that they can think beyond their thoughts

In essence, there are not really twenty-two trumps, there is only one—the Fool. Al the other trumps live inside (and issue from) the Fool.

The whole secret may be summarized in these four words: "Inflame thyself in praying." —ALEISTER CROWLEY38

Since everything is but an apparition, having nothing to do with good or bad, acceptance or rejection, one may well burst out in laughter.