Quotes About Enlightenment

Don't think you can attain total awareness and whole enlightenment without proper discipline and practice. This is egomania. Appropriate rituals channel your emotions and life energy toward the light. Without the discipline to practice them, you will tumble constantly backward into darkness.

The truth shall make you free.

Resolve to find thyself; and to know that he who finds himself, loses his misery

Before you can break out of prison, you must realize you are locked up.

Science is but the exchange of ignorance for that which is another kind of ignorance.

There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere.

We already have perfect compassion, perfect wisdom, perfect joy. We only need to settle our minds so they can arise from deep within us.

Someday perhaps the inner light will shine forth from us, and then we'll need no other light.

In the beginning you will fall into the gaps in between thoughts...after practicing for years, you become the gap.

Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom.

Education is not merely a means for earning a living or an instrument for the acquisition of wealth. "It is an initiation into life of spirit, a training of the human soul in the pursuit of truth and the practice of virtue.

A person without learning is like a beast dressed up in man's clothes in the field.

A skilled teacher and a few good books can always cure ignorance.

He who knows nothing is as blind as him who cannot see.

He who knows, knows. He who doesn't know, learns.

Life will show you what you did not know.

Quotations in conversation are torches in darkness.

To be without knowledge is to be without light.

One who begins to awaken from his spiritual stupor sees that it is better to be a Christian than to wallow in sin, and that it is better to be a believer than an unbeliever.

Faith in the gospel in no way comes from the person himself – the understanding is sovereignly granted by God as he removes the blindness from the mind and enlightens it, and the willful assent is produced in him by God's power, as a gift that he gives only to those whom he has chosen.

God has sovereignly regenerated and enlightened us, and by imparting to us the very mind of Christ, he has made us intellectually superior to all non-Christians. Therefore, "Let him who boasts boast in the Lord.

Their minds are so feeble and blinded that they cannot perceive or understand true wisdom.

Christ enlightens every man ever born by having created him with an intellectual and moral endowment…This knowledge is a part of the image of God in which God created Adam.

From the persistence of noise comes the insistence of rage. From the emergence of tone comes the divergence of thought. From the enlightenment of music comes the wisdom of... silence.