Quotes About Enlightenment

Let's shine the light of consciousness on places where we can hope to find what we are seeking.

also free from closemindedness, obscurantism and bigotry.

September 11 was a day of de-Enlightenment. Politics stood revealed as a veritable Walpurgis Night of the irrational. And such old, old stuff. The conflicts we now face or fear involve opposed geographical arenas, but also opposed centuries or even millennia. It is a landscape of ferocious anachronisms: nuclear jihad in the Indian subcontinent; the medieval agonism of Islam; the Bronze Age blunderings of the Middle East.

In the end one cannot avoid the conclusion that AIDS unites certain human themes -- homosexuality, sexual disease, and death -- about which society actively resists enlightenment. These are things that we are unwilling to address or even think about. We don't want to understand them. We would rather fear them.

In the Enlightenment-type movements, leaders saw human reason progressively replacing the earlier appeal to the Bible or churchly authority.

There are, and always have been, destructive pseudo-scientific notions linked to race and religion; these are the most widespread and damaging. Hopefully, educated people can succeed in shedding light into these areas of prejudice and ignorance, for as Voltaire once said: ' Men will commit atrocities as long as they believe absurdities .

I am of the Buddhists. The great Teacher comes periodically. He is followed by pupils who corrupt the texts and then a new Buddha must be born to reëstablish the truth.

Not fact-finding, but attainment to philosophy is the aim of science.

If God does not open and explain Holy Writ, no one can understand it; it will remain a closed book, enveloped in darkness.

May the Lord, whose cause this is, enlighten you and make you a vessel to honour and glory. Amen.

The doers are much more enlightened in faith than the speculative, as even the philosopher says in his Metaphysics,75 that an experienced person acts more surely.

I do know that some Buddhists are able to attain peace of mind.

Wer leichter glaubt, wird schwerer klug.

the lights went on and Aiden

The Buddha does not see nibbana as a special, metaphysical place to go to but as a process of dissolution that one can achieve here and now.

receiving knowledge means truly to come into being, to be manifested, whereas those who remain in error do not really exist at all

When you know yourselves,7 then you will be known, and you will understand that you are children of the living father. But if you do not know yourselves, then you dwell in poverty and you are poverty.

One who does not stand in the darkness cannot see the [134] light.

Speak of truth with those who seek it and of knowledge with those who have sinned in their error. [33]

The powers cannot see those who have put on the perfect light, and they cannot seize them. One puts on the light in the mystery of union.

No one can obtain this grace without putting on perfect light and becoming perfect light. Whoever puts on light will enter [the place of rest]. This is perfect [light, and] we [must] become [perfect humans] before we leave [the world].

Those who receive the light cannot be seen or grasped. Nothing can trouble such people even while they are living in this world. And when they leave this world, they have already received truth through images, and the world has become the eternal realm. To these people the eternal realm is fullness.

Knowing is not enough. You must accept My blessings in order to attain a better life. You must embrace a higher level of consciousness.

Give up the belief that mind is, even temporarily, compressed within the skull, and you will quickly become more manly or womanly. You will understand yourself and your Maker better than before.