Quotes About Enlightenment

Ignorance, the root and stem of every evil.

He who has not even a knowledge of common things is a brute among men. He who has an accurate knowledge of human concerns alone, is a man among brutes. But he who knows all that can be known by intellectual energy is a God among men.

A mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be lighted.

Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire. "For the mind does not require filling like a bottle, but rather, like wood, it only requires kindling to create in it an impulse to think independently and an ardent desire for the truth.

The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.

I asked him if Buddhists believe we all get a specific destiny. "We don't think there's a specific place in your life to go. Everybody's destiny is to become an enlightened being and reach the everlasting state of mind.

For students coming to meditation practice with faulty ego functioning, the enlightenment ideal may mistakenly represent 'a purified state of complete and invulnerable self-sufficiency from which all badness has been expelled, the aim of all narcissistic strivings

Asian philosophy and culture never endured an intellectual upheaval like the Cartesian split of mind and body that brought the so-called Enlightenment to the West. The consequent achievements of scientific method and the less fortunate by-products of secular self-interest together laid the groundwork, in Europe and America, for the personal psychology of psychoanalysis and psychotherapy.

The Buddhist view asserts that the nature of all beings is primordially pure and replete with positive qualities. Once we wake up enough to see through our confusion, we see that even our problematic thoughts and emotions are, at heart, part of this pure awareness.

The word buddha, however, simply means "awake" or "awakened." It does not refer to a particular historical person or to a philosophy or religion.

Knowledge has a trick of paying off in unexpected ways.

Tiempo atrás los hombres buscaban la iluminación para escapar del espejismo del mundo. Hoy sostenían que sólo existía el espejismo.

If I have learned anything, it is that intelligence and knowledge are worth little by themselves. Failing the enlightenment that goes beyond words and the world, they serve mainly to provide us with wonderful reasons for doing what we intend to do regardless.

Letakkan cambukmu, raja, kau yang tak tahu bagaimana ilmu dan pengetahuan telah membuka babak baru di bumi manusia ini.

Mereka (brahmana) tidak perlu takut pada kedunguan. Mereka belajar setiap hari untuk tidak jadi dungu.

Kami berhak untuk tidak menjadi bodoh.

It is only the ignorant who despise education.

Meditation has the answers for all our questions.

Meditation makes us realise our true magnificence.

Yoga has the power to enlighten your life.

Yoga practice has power that leads to real awakening of our soul.

Truth is so great a perfection, that if God would render himself visible to men, he would choose light for his body and truth for his soul.

It is not the simple statement of facts that ushers in freedom; it is the constant repetition of them that has this liberating effect. Tolerance is the result not of enlightenment, but of boredom.

Tolerance is the result not of enlightenment but of boredom.