Quotes About Enlightenment

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Hadn't another wise man, the Buddha himself, warned about the evils of attachment?

They wander in darkness seeking light, failing to realize that the light is in the heart of the darkness

Having become a citizen of two worlds, the individual must act accordingly. There can be no backsliding, because the individual must reach a state of certainty before this enlightenment is given that makes it utterly and completely impossible to backslide. He cannot 'get it' and then fail and turn from it. If he turns from it, it means he never had it. If he fails, he fails himself. He cannot fail the infinite.

Wisdom is given to no man until he asks for it.

He who knows not that the Prince of Darkness is the other face of the King of Light knows not me.

Man is never truly wise until he has fathomed the riddle of his own existence

Every truly intelligent man and woman who is working to spread light in the world is christened, or Lightened, by the actual labor which he or she is seeking to perform. The fact that light (intelligence) partakes of the natures of both God and the earth is proved by the names given to the personifications of this light for at one time they are called the "Sons of Men' and at another time the "Sons of God.

As enlightenment increases, the desire to share it increases; but with this desire comes the realization that it is impossible to share the Real. Realization is an inward experience which can come only to those who have won it in their own right. It cannot be conferred.

Truth is not lost, yet it must be sought for and found.

Man is born with eyes, yet only after long years of sorrow does he learn to see clearly and in harmony with the Plan.

If the infinite had not desired man to be wise, he would not have bestowed upon him the faculty of knowing.

I saw my Lord with the eye of the heart I asked, 'Who are You?' He replied, 'You'.

Ana el haq! Io sono la verità!

I saw my Lord with the eye of my heart I said: 'Who are you?' He said: 'You!' But for You, 'where' cannot have a place And there is no 'where' when it concerns You. The mind has no image of your existence in time Which would permit the mind to know where you are. You are the one who encompasses every 'where' Up to the point of no-where So where are you?

My destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing.

The whole art of living is to use the people who make us suffer simply as steps enabling us to obtain access to their divine form and thus joyfully to people our lives with divinities.

He that has light within his own clear breast May sit in the center, and enjoy bright day: But he that hides a dark soul and foul thoughts Benighted walks under the mid-day sun; Himself his own dungeon.

Frei ist, wer der Vernunft gehorcht.

He not only enableth our minds to apprehend the truth, but he shines into our hearts, the seat of spiritual experience, to "give us the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.

My father says that almost the whole world is asleep. Everybody you know. Everybody you see. Everybody you talk to. He says that only a few people are awake, and they live in a state of constant total amazement.

Jangan menjadi pengikut Buddha. Dunia tidak butuh pengikut Buddha lebih banyak lagi. Tapi sebarkanlah kasih sayang. Dunia membutuhkan banyak kasih sayang. -Dalai Lama

The nature of life prior to enlightenment was necessarily and irreparably a morass of injustice—the rule was as solidly inflexible as Tlschp's Law of the Balance of Entropy.

Focus on our ignorance." She didn't quite grasp the concept. She'd never been ignorant.