Quotes About Enlightenment

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Forever, reading has been central, the necessary fix, the support system. Her life has been informed by reading. She has read not just for distraction, sustenance, to pass the time, but she has read in a state of primal innocence, reading for enlightenment, for instruction, even. ... She is as much a product of what she has read as of the way in which she has lived; she is like millions of others built by books, for whom books are an essential foodstuff, who could starve without.

The Way of the Peaceful Warrior, The Celestine Prophecy, The Intuitive Way, Your Life Purpose, The Field, What the Bleep Do We Know!?, The Hidden Messages in Water, The Da Vinci Code, The Law of Attraction, and The Secret.

Light in every lamp, light in every mind.

Man, who wert once a despot and a slave;A dupe and a deceiver; a decay;A traveler from the cradle to the graveThrough the dim light of this immortal day.

The more we study, the more we discover our ignorance

Remember that that "rude awakening" which your parents and well-meaning relatives threatened you with as a kid is better than no awakening at all.

Satan hates for any person to have the eyes of their understanding opened through the revelation of God's Word.

Once our understanding is enlightened, we are no longer a pushover for the kingdom of darkness.

Emily Dickinson, he "tells it slant." Tell all the Truth but tell it slant— Success in Circuit lies Too bright for our infirm Delight The Truth's superb surprise As Lightning to the Children eased With explanation kind The Truth must dazzle gradually Or every man be blind—

The third noble truth holds that suffering can be transformed and healed.

I believe that man must learn to live without those consolations called religious, which his own intelligence must by now have told him belong to the childhood of the race.

Three hundred years ago, during the Age of Enlightenment, the coffee house became the center of innovation.

That Jesus was not and could not have been understood by walking with Jesus in and around Galilee. The disciples themselves—those Jesus handpicked to carry on his work—were utterly clueless about the big picture.

You spend your whole life believing that you will always be on the outside or on the borderline. You struggle and struggle, and yet it all seems to be in vain. And then, suddenly, you are allowed inside and lifted up into the light.

Being with Steffens is to me like flashes of clear light; it is as if I see him, and myself, and the world, with new eyes." Steffens

The starry-eyed idealists of today have submerged their critical faculties beneath a tidal wave of slop marketed by those old hippies who now sell a user-friendly dilution of their original enlightenment.

Never discard the negative roots of any equation; always look at the dark side of any enlightenment.

You have closed their minds to understanding; therefore You will not exalt them.

But where can wisdom be found, and where does understanding dwell?

From where then does wisdom come, and where does understanding dwell?

to bring back his soul from the Pit, that he may be enlightened with the light of life.

Then the eyes of those who see will no longer be closed, and the ears of those who hear will listen.

Whom did He consult to enlighten Him, and who taught Him the paths of justice? Who imparted knowledge to Him and showed Him the way of understanding?