Quotes About Enlightenment

The supreme end is the freedom of the spirit.

Liberty cannot be preserved without general knowledge among the people.

The foolish and the uneducated have little use for freedom. Only the educated are free.

A secret freedom opens through a crevice you can barely see.

Are you still thinking, looking, living, as from an imaginary phenomenal centre? As long as you do that you can never recognise your freedom.

For me, literacy means freedom. For the individual and for society.

Enlightenment is ego's ultimate disappointment.

Freedom begins where it ends ignorance.

True freedom means freeing oneself from the dictates of the ego and its accompanying emotions.

Freedom begins as we become conscious of it.

Nothing you believe is true. To know this is freedom.

Freedom can never be comprehended, nor even can insight into it be gained.

To know yourself as the Being underneath the thinker, the stillness underneath the mental noise, the love and joy underneath the pain, is freedom, salvation, enlightenment.

It is not the simple statement of facts that ushers in freedom; it is the constant repetition of them that has this liberating effect. Tolerance is the result not of enlightenment, but of boredom.

Happiness follows sorrow, sorrow follows happiness, but when one no longer discriminates happiness and sorrow, a good deal and a bad deed, one is able to realize freedom.

Freedom can occur only through education.

So there's only transcendence in the moment. Nobody can be transcended forever. That's why I say, "Who cares if you're enlightened forever?"

Illuminated emancipation, freedom, unalloyed and untainted bliss await you, but you have to choose to embark on the Inward Journey to discover it

You are already free. You only have to know and realize this truth.

Truth gives no advantage. It gives no higher status, no power over others; all you get is truth and freedom from the false.

When we free ourselves of desire, we will know serenity and freedom.

The fifth freedom is freedom from ignorance.

Yoga allows you to find a new kind of freedom that you may not have known even existed.

no people can be both ignorant and free.