Quotes About Enlightenment

To read quotations is to live in a planet with multiple suns!

To see the big picture, get out of the dark valleys, climb to the sunny summits!

If the soul knows God in creatures, night falls. If it sees how they have their being in God, morning breaks. But if it sees the Being that is in God himself alone, it is high noon! See! This is what one ought to desire with mad fervor—that all his life should become Being.

W]e must come into a transformed knowing, an unknowing which comes not from ignorance but from knowledge.

In this breaking-through, I receive that God and I are one. Then I am what I was, and then I neither diminish nor increase, for I am then an immovable cause that moves all things.

It is the nature of the Word to reveal to me what has been hidden.

Thus the soul's pursuit continues, for she holds to this knowing-by-unknowing.

One day" came. Because finally I understood.

You will know the truth and the truth will set you free.

The great end of learning is nothing else but to seek for the lost mind.

Inexperience can be overcome, ignorance can be enlightened, but prejudice will destroy you.

This is one of the principal reasons people seek out spiritual teachers. They figure there is more to most things than meets the eye.

If the world turns to religions of knowledge and enlightenment rather than place faith in dusty books and fanatical prophets, the vast divide between science and religion will be at last be healed. We can enter a Golden Age of human thinking and spirituality

If the God Consciousness is at the centre of Indra's Net and the diamonds of the net are our individual consciousnesses then his consciousness is in all of us, and ours in his. Ultimately, we and God are one. And that is the essence of enlightenment. That is the supreme prize awaiting us all.

Will we fall into the abyss, or will we become Supermen and Superwomen, and finally Gods? The future of our souls is about to be decided. We can place ourselves on a divine trajectory, or sink back into the slime, defeated by our inability to overcome our feelings and our addictive stories. The choice, ladies and gentlemen, is yours. These are the highest possible stakes. The moment of decision has come. Enlightenment – or the slime.

We are the new and improved Christians, those who actually understand Christianity. It has nothing to do with worshipping the Son of God, and everything to do with becoming God. Christianity is about making yourself Christ.

We are God but we don't know it. We have to evolve this realization over many lifetimes (via reincarnation), overcoming all of the forces that prevent us from seeing the true nature of things. At the point of enlightenment, we will finally perceive that we, beings that have always existed just as God has, are identical with God.

The more you realize, the more you realize there is nothing to realize," she said. "The idea that there's somewhere we have got to get to, and something we have to attain, is our basic delusion.

One becomes free, Socrates seems to have taught, not by fulfilling all desires but by eliminating desire.

We know nothing worth knowing about what goes on outside our frontiers. Worse-we know very little more about what goes on within them. Beyond the light of one's own personal experience-darkness. What are people thinking? What are they feeling? How do they behave? Messages of reassurance or exhortation come through. One reads between the lines. Friends pool their knowledge. But in general we live like animals, in ignorance of the world around us.

The financial alternative to classical economics calls itself "neoliberalism," but it is the opposite of what the Enlightenment's original liberal reformers called themselves. Land rent has not ended up in government hands, and more and more public services have been privatized to squeeze out monopoly rent. Banks have gained control of government and their central banks to create money only to bail out creditor losses, not to finance public spending.

The ideals of the Enlightenment eventually led to civic emancipation, and however ferocious the opposition, the basic provision for civic equality between Jews and non-Jews would now appear to be largely uncontroversial, and in any case inalterable. To an extraordinary degree, modern Jews today now participate (or, at least, are legally and culturally permitted to participate) in the full range of social and intellectual life in the West.

It paid to be cultured, just as long as you didn't start growing bacteria.

Reaching our soul is the first step on the ladder of finding our higher power.