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Quotes About Enlightenment

I felt the human disease that is ignorance suddenly leave my body. Just like that. Like a hot, desperate piss after a long car ride.
~ J.A. Redmerski, Dirty Eden
Hey, religious nuts! Please do not grow up. Just go up!
~ Fakeer Ishavardas
The sunshine of the mind.
~ Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
Watching television is like taking black spray paint to your third eye.
~ Bill Hicks
The mind contains all possibilities.
~ Gautama Buddha
For those who have obtained unobstructed knowledge of Self, the world is seen merely as a bondage causing imagination.
~ Ramana Maharshi
Consciousness means choicelessness, and to be choiceless is to be free from all desire, is to be free from all projection, is to be free from all imagination, is to be free from future.
~ Rajneesh
Why seek a doctrine? As soon as you have a doctrine, you fall into dualistic thought.
~ Huangbo Xiyun
Be a lamp unto yourselves! Work out your liberation with diligence! Fill your mind with compassion!
~ Gautama Buddha
No nation is permitted to live in ignorance with impunity
~ Thomas Jefferson
If the light's not in you, you're in the dark.
~ Marty Rubin
The whole world opened to me when I learned to read.
~ Mary McLeod Bethune
The whole world is a cyclone. But once you have found the center, the cyclone disappears. This nothingness is the ultimate peak of consciousness.
~ Rajneesh
Liberate the minds of men and ultimately you will liberate the bodies of men.
~ Marcus Garvey
To live without philosophizing is in truth the same as keeping the eyes closed without attempting to open them.
~ Rene Descartes
The "end of a world" never is and never can be anything but the end of an illusion
~ Rene Guenon
No day in which you learn something is a complete loss.
~ David Eddings
You can't discover light, by analyzing the dark.
~ Wayne Dyer
That man has reached immortality who is disturbed by nothing material.
~ Swami Vivekananda
When selflessness is seen in objects, the seed of cyclic existence is destroyed.
~ Dalai Lama
We are most often in the dark when we are the most certain, and the most enlightened when we are the most confused.
~ M. Scott Peck
The kingdom of heaven is like electricity. You don't see it. It is within you.
~ Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
Where ignorance is bliss, 'Tis folly to be wise.
~ Thomas Gray
Become totally empty Quiet the restlessness of the mind Only then will you witness everything unfolding from emptiness
~ Laozi