Quotes About Enlightenment

Maybe this was the only meaning humans had on this planet. Their purpose was simply to pursue the enlightenment of orgasm. A few seconds of relief from the surrounding dark.

Gerçek bilgelik hiçbir ÅŸey bilmediÄŸini bilmekte yatar. -Sokrates

The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.

Culture is the passion for sweetness and light, and (what is more) the passion for making them prevail.

He who works for sweetness and light united, works to make reason and the will of God prevail.

Let me go back for a moment to Bishop Wilson, who says:??'First, never go against the best light you have; secondly, take care that your light be not darkness.

Travel, she had discovered, was a delightful means of gratifying the intelligent curiosity that Dr. Johnson had called the root of all wisdom and culture. "I go to bed exhaustedly happy," she wrote in her notebook, "and wake up expectantly smiling.

We cannot reach true wisdom except by divine revelation.

The graces and comforts of the Spirit are communicated to the soul by the enlightening of the understanding.

Those who have their eyes opened, and have some understanding in the things of God, have need to be more and more enlightened, and to have their knowledge more clear, and distinct, and experimental.

The day you fall in love with learning, your life changes forever.

Richard Polly, 1942–2017 "Knowing others is Wisdom, Knowing yourself is Enlightenment." —Lao-tzu

The acquisition of knowledge, the sheer pleasure of finding things out, is the greatest gift in life.

If, then, faith widens the connections, it elevates the man.

in its deepest sense, suffering is intimately linked to a misapprehension of the nature of reality. R

Recognize suffering, Eliminate its source, End it By practicing the path.

We can move gradually from total confusion, dominated by hatred and other mental poisons, to an intermediate stage of serenity, altruistic joy, and self-mastery before finally arriving at enlightenment, which will give us a true vision of phenomena's ultimate nature. At that point, knowledge functions with an immediate certitude that transcends discursive thought.

It's said that the Buddha's enlightenment is great than that of a traveler setting out, in the same proportion as the heavens are bigger than what can be seen of them through the eye of a needle. But in both cases, what you see is the sky.

we want to be free of inner suffering once and for all, it is not enough to rid ourselves of the emotions themselves; we must eliminate our attachment to the ego. Is that possible? It is, because as we've seen, the ego exists merely as mental imputation. A concept can be dispelled, but only by the wisdom that perceives that the ego is devoid of intrinsic existence.

According to Buddhism, suffering will always exist as a universal phenomenon, but every individual has the potential for liberation from it.

From a Buddhist point of view, every being has the potential for enlightenment just as surely, say the traditional texts, as every sesame seed contains oil.

Que el precioso Pensamiento del Despertar nazca en mí, si no lo he concebido. Y que, cuando haya nacido, nunca decline, sino que siempre siga desarrollándose. Voto de Bodhisattva

Buddhism affirms that the ultimate nature of phenomena is emptiness and that emptiness carries within it an infinite potential of manifestation.

Si piensa que todo es perfecto en su vida, o bien es usted un buda, o bien es completamente idiota.