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Quotes About Enlightenment

To understand everything is to forgive everything.
~ Gautama Buddha
The more he became truly wise, the more he distrusted everything he knew.
~ Voltaire
As you become more present in your own life, you will begin to enlighten others by your example.
~ Germany Kent
There is only one time when it is essential to awaken. That time is now.
~ Gautama Buddha
The legitimate function of the mind is to tell you what is not. But if you want positive knowledge, you must go beyond the mind.
~ Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
Many who tried to enlighten were hanged from the lamppost.
~ Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
Beyond positive and negative, what is Reality?
~ Alan Watts
The death of dogma is the birth of reality.
~ Immanuel Kant
Life is brighter than we think and better as we are. We just have to open our eyes.
~ Nina Hrusa
Discover. Read. Learn.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
Wisdom is not always discovered in a book, true wisdom is discovered in the knowing that you know nothing.
~ Pasha Cook
Reading leads to wise ways of living.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
Enlightenment is not about attaining an ultimate level of intelligence or intellect. It is regained by shedding all the ideas, illusion and binds thrust on you and that you then so readily accrue.
~ Rasheed Ogunlaru
The pathway to enlightenment, transformation and liberation is the heart not the mind.
~ Rasheed Ogunlaru
Wisdom is worth more than money.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
My heart had been a darkened room for so very long, but then you found the light switch.
~ John Mark Green
Know from root to fruit
~ Thibanraaj Dora Rajah
With the touch of wisdom, comes the end of fears.
~ Vikrmn, Guru with Guitar
Awakening others is an impossible endeavor until I myself am awakened.
~ Pooja Ruprell
Light shines but why do many souls desire to stay in darkness?.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
If you follow the light of the world, you will never walk in darkness.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
The burden of knowledge is lighter than the joy of ignorance.
~ Ogwo David Emenike
I am on pilgrim to self-realisation.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
Siddhartha considered the ways of the demon, and in that moment he struck.
~ Roger Zelazny, Lord of Light