Quotes About Enlightenment

The end of desire is the end of sorrow.

The desire to know your own soul will end all other desires.

Whatsoever misfortunes there are Here in this world or in the next, They all have their root in Ignorance And in the accumulation of Longing and Desire.

Free from desire, you realize the mystery.

The world had seen so many Ages: the Age of Enlightenment; of Reformation; of Reason. Now, at last, the Age of Desire. And after this, an end to Ages; an end, perhaps, to everything.

Desire, said the Buddha, is the cause of suffering. But without desire, what delight?

I have no desire to walk on water," said Siddhartha. "Let the old shamans satisfy themselves with such skills".

The sage desires no desire, does not value rare treasures, learns without learning, recovers what people have left behind.

Even in heavenly pleasures he finds no satisfaction, the disciple who is fully awakened delights only in the destruction of all desires.

Emotion arise from Desire, hence an Illusion.

Am I caught in a self-centred, narrow little cell which refuses to look beyond? Do I see it when you come along and tell me that my brain is the brain of all mankind?

Dignity and quiet joy in all that we do are the expression of perfect concentration and perfect wisdom.

Human dignity is better served by embracing knowledge.

An unschooled man who knows how to meditate upon the Lord has learned far more than the man with the highest education who does not know how to meditate.

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

No one has ever died, from an overexposure to education.

After bread, education is the first need of the people.

The only thing that is more expensive than education is ignorance.

Whenever you read a good book, somewhere in the world a door opens to allow in more light.

Only the educated are free.

If you think education is expensive, try estimating the cost of ignorance.

Education is the movement from darkness to light.

The purpose of education is not to validate ignorance but to overcome it.

The true purpose of education is to make minds, not careers.