Quotes About Enlightenment

Thus, if you look for the Tao in books, you won't find it anywhere . . . but if you look for the Tao in life, you will find it everywhere.

I read, I travel, I become

All that we know is nothing, we are merely crammed wastepaper baskets,unless we are in touch with that which laughs at all our knowing.

Lying on the floor, with the carved panels of the ceiling flickering dimly above, I found myself thinking that I had always heretofore assumed that the tendency of eigh­teenth-century ladies to swoon was due to tight stays; now I rather thought it might be due to the idiocy of eighteenth-century men.

I believe education is much more important than we assume.

When I started my spiritual journey, I realized I had to cut away from all attachment.

Always educate yourself.

I'm not dumb, I just wasn't educated.

If people are educated, they will know what they need.

I just want to be educated.

It's really not about the money. It's just about educating yourself.

I am one of the elect, one of the few in the know, in the gnosis.

It's so empowering to know the truth and to really understand something.

Learning is an endless process.

I've always said that God will somehow enlighten me.

If we want to enlighten people or give them new thoughts and ideas, we have to be willing to do the work of educating them.

This could never be a crime in any society which deems himself enlightened.

We all have the archetype inside us of the enlightened being.

Being enlightened is just being aware. It's just being aware of something that you weren't aware before.

It's important to be enlightened.

Only a couple of times have I ever been to church and felt enlightened by it.

I've got to start using my brain more - I've got to be more ethereal and more enlightened.

The Enlightenment, the Age of Reason, is seen as the beginning of modern depravity.

I'm very much an Enlightenment kind of guy.