Quotes About Enlightenment

I am destined to illuminate you by burning myself up.

The final delusion is the belief that one has lost all delusion.

Man is like a blind person who denies the existence of light because he doesn't see it. Light is a great mystery, for the blind!

El hombre se asemeja a un ciego que niega la luz porque no la ve. ¡La luz es un hondo misterio para el ciego!

He is wise who at last sees in suffering only the light that it sheds on his soul; and whose eyes never rest on the shadow it casts upon those who have sent it towards him. And wiser still is the man to whom sorrow and joy not only bring increase of consciousness, but also the knowledge that something exists superior to consciousness even. To have reached this point is to reach the summit of inward life, whence at last we look down on the flames whose light has helped our ascent.

He who knows himself is wise; yet have we no sooner acquired real consciousness of our being than we learn that true wisdom is a thing that lies far deeper than consciousness. The chief gain of increased consciousness is that it unveils an ever-loftier unconsciousness, on whose heights do the sources lie of the purest wisdom.

We can be born thus more than once; and each birth brings us a little nearer to our God.

Truly they who know still know nothing if the strength of love be not theirs; for the true sage is not he who sees, but he who, seeing the furthest, has the deepest love for mankind. He who sees without loving is only straining his eyes in the darkness.

Have we," asks Claude de Saint-Martin, the great 'unknown philosopher,' "have we advanced one step further on the radiant path of enlightenment, that leads to the simplicity of men?" Let us wait in silence: perhaps ere long we shall be conscious of "the murmur of the gods.

To know is always better, no matter what the answer might be.

The French were more tolerant of brothels than any other nation in Europe, though there was some dispute about whether this reflected enlightenment or depravity.

La Ilustración se relaciona con las cosas como el dictador con los hombres. Éste los concede en la medida en en que puede manipularlos.

Seit je hat Aufklärung im umfassendsten Sinn fortschreitenden Denkens das Ziel verfolgt, von den Menschen die Furcht zu nehmen und sie als Herren einzusetzen. Aber die vollends aufgeklärte Erde strahlt im Zeichen triumphalen Unheils. Das Programm der Aufklärung war die Entzauberung der Welt.

The secret of freedom lies in educating people, whereas the secret of tyranny is in keeping them ignorant.

Knowledge Gives You Power.

I Can See Clearly Now, Dr. Wayne W. Dyer

Najve?a mudrost u životu je da ?ovjek prona?e pravu ludost.

She wanted to leave her noisy questing "self" behind in that pool—not by tumbling in, like Narcissus, but by rising up. The answer came to her: "I saw there was no self; that selfishness was all folly . . . that I had only to live in the idea of the ALL, and all was mine.

There are no divisions as such, but there is an appearance of separateness because of ignorance. This means that everything is of ignorance and that every one is Ignorance personified.

These false answers such as, I am stone, I am bird, I am animal, I am man, I am woman, I am great, I am small are, in turn, received, tested and discarded until the Question arrives at the right and Final Answer, I AM GOD.

To attain union is so impossibly difficult because it is impossible to become what you already are! Union is nothing other than knowledge of oneself as the Only One.

All those who experience the gross world as real are asleep. Only those who experience it as unreal can realise God and become awakened.

All talk about the path and the goal is as a lantern carried by a blind man. The blind man needs a staff in his hand, the seeker needs his hand in the God-Man's

A wise quote can only change a wise man! Therefore, wise sayings are for the wise men, not for the fools! The sunflowers turn their face toward the Sun, the fools, toward the darkness!