Quotes About Enlightenment

The heart of so great a mystery cannot ever be reached by following one road only." Quintus Aurelius Symmachus (c. 345 – 402) was a Roman statesman, orator, and man of letters; from Augustine, in controversy with St. Ambrose. Quoted by Arnold Toynbee.

There should be a new literary resolution: no more epiphanies. Enough. Have pity on readers who reach the end of a real-life conflict in confusion and don't experience a false sense of temporary enlightenment.

When one knows thee, then alien there is none, then no door is shut. Oh, grant me my prayer that I may never lose the touch of the one in the play of the many.

Deliverance is not for me in renunciation. I feel the embrace of freedom in a thousand bonds of delight.

Nirvana is not the blowing out of the candle. It is the extinguishing of the flame because day is come.

Love is the highest bliss that man can attain to, for through it alone he truly knows that he is more than himself, and that he is at one with the All.

Let my love, like sunlight, surround you and yet give you illumined freedom.

Leave this chanting and singing and telling of beads! Whom dost thou worship in this lonely dark corner of a temple with doors all shut? Open thine eyes and see thy God is not before thee!

LOVE! when you come with the burning lamp of pain in your hand, I can see your face and know you as bliss.

Joe certainly didn't seem concerned with his own enlightenment, but he did seem more intelligent than the average muscle neck. Then he raised his arm, bent his head, and sniffed his pit. Gabrielle looked at the plates in her hands. She should have used paper.

Europe and the world are waiting for us to defend the spirit of the enlightenment everywhere.

Europe and the world are waiting for us to defend the spirit of Enlightenment, threatened in so many places.

I noticed this process of waking, and predicted with terrifying logic that one of these years not far away I would be awake continuously and never slip back, and never be free of myself again.

Singers like Beyonce and Kendrick Lamar are very conscious of what's going on around them, and they're waking up lot of young people with that knowledge. They bring their enlightenment to the world; the world that is buying their records.

I'm a big believer in education, period.

I am not the born; how can there be either birth or death for me?

But if you are going to wear blinders then you do not know the world.

If you cannot bow to Buddha, you cannot be a Buddha. It is arrogance.

My parents had broken through the shackles of dogma.

I practice Rasayana Buddhism.

I am a Buddhist.

I'm a Buddhist.

I'm much more Buddhist. I mean, I'm not a Buddhist. I should be so lucky to be a Buddhist, a real Buddhist, but of all the things I investigated, that seems to make the most sense to me.

How many Buddhists does it take to change a lightbulb? Many in body, one in mind.