Quotes About Enlightenment

The Greek philosopher Socrates once said, "The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing." Very few stories convey the profound truth of his statement better than this story of Chinese Taoist origin:

We empower ourselves through knowledge.

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.

You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure about you. We were born to manifest the glory of God that is within us.

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.

It's a wonderful feeling to have one's brain stretched and tested, to know both that one has knowledge, and that one is gaining more.

Well I am glad I have something of the fool in my disposition--foolishness being the only quality that makes wisdom possible.

Nothing in this world is to be feared... only understood.

A burrito is a delicious food item that breaks down all social barriers and leads to temporary spiritual enlightenment.

Enlightenment is the food that eats you.

Whether you bathe in the Ganga for a thousand years or live on vegetable food for a like period, unless it helps towards the manifestation of the Self, know that it is all of no use.

If we will not learn to eat the only food that the universe grows...then we must starve eternally.

Forgiveness is a game only saints play Kabir.

It made me gladsome to be getting some education it being like a big window opening.

He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me.

Only an educated and informed people will be a free people.

Stop. Stop everything. Then you will realize you are the freedom you have been searching for.

If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.

Books are like imprisoned souls till someone takes them down from a shelf and frees them.

Enlightenment is an accident, but some activities make you accident-prone.

My God! How little do my countrymen know what precious blessings they are in possession of, and which no other people on earth enjoy!

Those... who find delight in freedom from attachment in the renunciation of clinging, free from the inflow of thoughts, they are like shining lights, having reached final liberation in the world.

Nonresistance, nonjudgment, and nonattachment are the three aspects of true freedom and enlightened living.

The renowned seventh-century Zen master Seng-tsan taught that true freedom is being "without anxiety about imperfection.