Quotes About Enlightenment

Your life is something opaque, not transparent, as long as you look at it in an ordinary human way. But if you hold it up against the light of God's goodness, it shines and turns transparent, radiant and bright. And then you ask yourself in amazement: Is this really my own life I see before me?

Tras el vivir y el soñar, está lo que más importa: despertar. ANTONIO MACHADO

What was the use of seeing things clearly if the only thing clarity brought was a new and deeper darkness?

The shaman is a self-realized person. She discovers the ways of Spirit through her inner awakening.

The pleasures of ignorance are as great, in their way, as the pleasures of knowledge.

Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.

You shall know the truth and the truth shall make you mad.

Men and women are not free to love decently until they have analyzed themselves completely and swept away every mystery from sex; and this means the acquisition of a profound philosophical theory based on wide reading of anthropology and enlightened practice.

El topo es un animal que cava galerías bajo la tierra buscando el sol y a veces su camino lo lleva a la superficie: cuando ve el sol, queda ciego.

He entendido con el corazón encogido que la verdad, cuando aparece, a menudo es solo la puerta a otra verdad más profunda que jamás habíamos sospechado y que a menudo lo explica todo. He cerrado los ojos durante un instante y he respirado hondo. Entonces la he visto. La base del iceberg. Ahí estaba. Potente como la luz de un faro.

Blow the dust off the clock. Your watches are behind the times. Throw open the heavy curtains which are so dear to you -- you do not even suspect that the day has already dawned outside.

it is not enough that we know how things really stand; in a certain sense, things themselves have to realize how they stand.

Being initiated is not like receiving a diploma that you hang on your wall. It only happens when a real goal is achieved in the physical and the spiritual simultaneously—on earth as it is in Heaven. Because of that, a new form of consciousness and spiritual knowledge sprouts from the greatest depth of our existence and stays indefinitely in our being. It is a light that sprouts from the source of the superior self that will guide us until the end of the search.

And as for the enlightened, one can only pity them the deceptions of their muses.

The apostolic character, in short, must combine freedom of conscience, enlargement of heart, enlightenment of mind, and all in the superlative degree.

Recherches philosophiques sur les Americains.

One must open men's eyes, not tear them out.

Slave to no sect, who takes no private road,But looks through Nature up to Nature's God.

While, from the bounded level of our mind, Short views we take, nor see the lengths behind; But more advanced, behold, with strange surprise, New distant scenes of endless science rise!

Nature and Nature's laws lay hid in night: God said, Let Newton be! and all was light.

How he could be a good user of LSD," I asked, "And know about the spiritual dimension - all that sort of thing - and still be a crook? I don't understand." "Then it's time you did. Psychedelic drugs don't change you - they don't change you character - unless you want to be changed. They enable change; they can't impose it...

If I were not Alexander, I would be Diogenes.

Until you make the unconscious conscious," Carl Jung said, "it will direct your life and you will call it fate.

This was why. So that she would become conscious.