Quotes About Enlightenment

If the sages have managed to transcend the fetters of samsara, why do they feel the need to leave these mementoes behind?

En el libro La Enseñanza de Buda dice: "Aunque un hombre conquiste a miles de hombres en los campos de batalla, sólo aquel que se conquiste a sí mismo ganará su batalla".

Ni Jesús ni Buda volverán para rescatarnos, lo que necesitamos para transformarnos está dentro nuestro.

Hagamos de cuenta que somos seres iluminados. Hagamos de cuenta que somos amados por Dios. Hagamos de cuenta que somos perfectos tal como somos. Respiremos profundamente y aspiremos a aquello que es verdad. Sólo entonces todo tendrá sentido. Es necesario saber que uno aspira a la realidad, la verdad. Construye tu vida fundamentándola en esta verdad. Si aspiramos a aquello que es verdadero, la verdad es automáticamente atraída a nuestras vidas".

Dac? î?i în?elegi orgoliul, acesta dispare în mod natural. Dac? î?i în?elegi nefericirea, aceasta dispare la rândul ei. Dac? î?i în?elegi temerile, acestea se evapor?. Dac? î?i în?elegi ata?amentele, acestea dispar, iar ceea ce r?mâne în final este libertatea.

the basis of all true learning.

I found a new thought in myself. I am embarrassed to tell it, so rudimentary it seems, like an infant's discovery that her hand is her own. But that is what I was then, an infant. The thought was this: that all my life had been murk and depths, but I was not a part of that dark water. I was a creature within it.

It was the sort of secret I loved to discover, for it made me feel cynical and wise.

That was the moment I lived for, when it all came clear at last and the spell could sing with its pure note, for me and me alone.

The greater our knowledge increases the greater our ignorance unfolds.

How I hate ignorance! Caliban's ignorance, my ignorance, the world's ignorance! Oh, I could learn and learn and learn and learn. I could cry, I want to learn so much.

The tyranny of a majority can be just as cruel as the tyranny of a single dictator, depending on the degree of enlightenment or stupidity of the voting majority.

And from that moment of his introduction to my cousins, I would frequently consider the issue of exactly how human Owen Meany was; there is no doubt that, in the dazzling configurations of the sun that poured through the attic skylight, he looked like a descending angel—a tiny but fiery god, sent to adjudicate the errors of our ways.

But that's the purpose of education! To begin to understand! Then to want to understand!

The slavery of ignorance is as wicked as any other kind. Perhaps it's the crudest slavery of all, because any man can see an iron cuff on his own leg, but it's hard to detect an invisible one." She watched for a reaction.

But that's the purpose of education! To begin to understand! Then to want to understand!

It seems to me that the only true Christians were the Gnostics, who believe in self-knowledge, i.e. becoming Christ themselves, reaching the Christ within, the light is the truth. Turn on the light. All the better to see you with, my dear.

They who have put out the people's eyes reproach them of their blindness.

If you think education is expensive, you should try ignorance

Always to see the general in the particular is the very foundation of genius.

Few things are as essential as education.

Since in reality there is nothing to which growth is relative save more growth, there is nothing to which education is subordinate save more education.

Give a man a hoe and he is something to exploit. Give him a book and he is something to fear.

Education should bring to light the ideal of the individual.