Quotes About Enlightenment

Philosophically, I would say that I am Buddhist.

Once you leave your ego behind and let the good light in, you shine good light back. That may be a bit Buddhist but so what.

I think most people think that a spiritual path or growing spiritually means that all of a sudden you'll be able to forecast the six lotto numbers and all your bills will be paid.

I started reading the Bible. All of a sudden the words jumped off the page and became real.

Not suffering another existence is reaching the Way.

I'm a creature of the eighteenth century at heart: The Enlightenment and the search for happiness suit me.

Genius unrefined resembles a flash of lightning, but wisdom is like the sun.

Mom takes all the credit for my success. Now Mom says, 'I read your face when you were a baby, and it said you were going to be a star. That's why I named you Ming - because it's all about the sun and the stars and enlightenment.'

I am learning to see. I don't know why it is, but everything enters me more deeply and doesn't stop where it once used to. I have an interior that I never knew of. Everything passes into it now. I don't know what happens there.

All emotions are pure which gather you and lift you up; that emotion is impure which seizes only one side of your being and so distorts you.

I'm learning how to see. I don't know what the reason is, but everything enters into me more deeply and no longer stops at the point where it used to come to an end. I have an inner self that I knew nothing about. Now everything goes into it. I don't know what happens there.

Aufklärung heißt nichts anderes, als die Unschuld messen mit dem Maaße der Schuld!

I am learning to see. Why, I cannot say, but all things enter more deeply into me; nor do the impressions remain at the level where they used to cease. There is a place within me of which I knew nothing. Now all things tend that way. I do not know what happens there.

The truth is the light and the light is the truth.

And I love light. Perhaps you'll think it strange that an invisible man should need light, desire light, love light. But maybe it is exactly because I am invisible. Light confirms my reality, gives birth to my form.

I've illuminated the blackness of my invisibility—and vice versa.

Fear always springs from ignorance.

In the highest civilization, the book is still the highest delight. He who has once known its satisfactions is provided with a resource against calamity.

There are many things of which a wise man might wish to be ignorant

Every man is a divinity in disguise, a god playing the fool.

We are wiser than we know.

Every burned book or house enlightens the world; every suppressed or expunged word reverberates through the earth from side to side.

To the illuminated mind the whole world burns and sparkles with light.

Nature is made to conspire with spirit to emancipate us.