Quotes About Enlightenment

The greatest tool for a possible and lasting freedom is EDUCATION.

If you are lucky and work very hard, you may someday get to experience freedom from the known.

Freedom has no history.

Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery, none but ourselves can free our minds!

Everybody wants to get enlightened but nobody wants to change.

The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free

The revelation of thought takes men out of servitude into freedom.

And you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free! - John 8:32

The truth shall set you free.

I am an old man now, and when I die and go to Heaven there are two matters on which I hope for enlightement. One is quantum electrodynamics and the other is the turbulent motion of fluids. And about the former I am rather more optimistic.

Those who do not study are only cattle dressed up in mens clothes.

to know reality (or things as they are than to have not to know and to have few illusions as possible— train my will now

Science is still only a candle glimmering in a great pitch-dark cavern.

Sometimes it takes more courage not to let yourself see. Sometimes knowledge is damaging - not enlightenment but enleadenment.

I realized then that I didn't understand anything. I read all the books I could.

The gentle heart and its acts are the keys to enlightenment, and will open doors to worlds you have never imagined." ... ask yourselves this: when Adara Farclaw spoke of keys and doors, was she speaking only of philosophies or was she teaching us how to take our own first steps upon the road between worlds?

But for the sake of simplicity we can speak about four dimensions: the way that evangelicals (1) adopted republican theories of politics, (2) took as their own democratic theories of society, (3) embraced liberal views of the economy (all discussed in this chapter), and (4) domesticated the Enlightenment for Christian purposes (examined in somewhat greater detail in the next chapter).

In all of these ways, Wesley promoted a religious faith that resembled the forms of the Enlightenment, even though his purpose in doing so was Christian in a way that many proponents of the Enlightenment had abandoned.[115]

That is why," Chadwick explains, "the problem of secularization is not the same as the problem of Enlightenment. Enlightenment was of the few. Secularization is of the many."[129]

We don't have a good vocabulary for these experiences. They come in variations and degrees, from a slight apprehension of the strangeness of being to the ravishing dissolution of boundaries called enlightenment. A mystical experience, a peak experience, a blurring or merge between self and other, a liberation from the limits of space and time.

True wisdom is the ability to see things as they really are. This is a gift the ring cannot bequeath. What wisdom Frodo has must come from a different source

Real reading is reincarnation. There is no other way to put it. It is being born again into a higher form of consciousness than we ourselves possess.

A recently deceased American Zen master and navy veteran, John Daido Loori, used to say that those who think Buddhism is just about stillness end up sitting very silently up to their necks in their own shit.

Enlightenment does not mean getting rid of anything. It means changing one's frame of reference so that all things become enlightening.