Quotes About Enlightenment

But by reading them again and again finally I was able to grasp the essential part. What emotion, enthusiasm, enlightenment and confidence they communicated to me! I wept for joy.

You are already That which you seek.

True confidence comes from realizing the view.

The truly wise are content to be last. They are, therefore, first. They are indifferent to themselves. They are, therefore self-confident.

Inscribed on the temple of Apollo

There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do.

Have the courage to use your own reason- That is the motto of enlightenment. "Foundations of the Metaphysics of Morals" (1785)

We stumble and fall constantly, even when we are most enlightened.

The glory of science is, that it is freeing the soul, breaking the mental manacles, getting the brain out of bondage, giving courage to thought, filling the world with mercy, justice, and joy.

Once you stop clinging and let things be, you'll be free, even of birth and death. You'll transform everything.

Death is a stripping away of all that is not you. The secret of life is to "die before you die" --- and find that there is no death.

Thoughtfulness is the way to deathlessness, thoughtlessness the way to death. The thoughtful do not die: the thoughtless are as if dead already.

It takes so many years to learn that one is dead.

The coming and going of birth and death is a painting. Unsurpassed enlightenment is a painting. The entire phenomenal universe and the empty sky are nothing but a painting.

Buddhas move freely through birth and death, appearing and disappearing at will.

The birth of science was the death of superstition.

Renunciation means death of false ego.

I can worry myself into a state of spiritual ennui over questions like What good does it do to pray if God already knows everything? Jesus silences such questions: he prayed, so should we.

The gospel is not at all what we would come up with on our own.

The gospel of grace begins and ends with forgiveness. And people write songs with titles like "Amazing Grace" for one reason: grace is the only force in the universe powerful enough to break the chains that enslave generations. Grace alone melts ungrace.

All that that I learn just teaches me that I know nothing.

epiphanies rarely repeat themselves.

The object of education is to teach us to love what is beautiful.

Those who are able to see beyond the shadows and lies of their culture will never be understood, let alone believed, by the masses.