Quotes About Enlightenment

The Enlightenment diamond-shaped society, with a huge, prosperous, socially-mobile, empowered middle class, is by far the most productive and creative system the world has ever seen.

Obscure faith enlightens us somewhat like the night, which, though surrounding us with shadows, allows us to see the stars, and by them the depths of the firmament. There is here a mingling of light and shade which is extremely beautiful. That we may see the stars, the sun must hide, night must begin. Amazingly, in the obscurity of night we see to a far greater distance than in the day; we see even the distant stars, which reveal to us the immense expanse of the heavens.

Full awakening called for humility in emptiness.

So the very first step on the path to blessedness is to be confronted by the spectre of meaninglessness… by inner discontent, sadness, anxiety, regret, frustration, depression. Confucius put it succinctly: "No vexation, no enlightenment; no anxiety, no illumination." (Analects 7:8)

Ils venaient de prendre conscience de l'immensité de leur ignorance.

it appears to me that I have discovered many truths more useful and more important than all I had before learned, or even had expected to learn.

For I found myself involved in so many doubts and errors, that I was convinced I had advanced no farther in all my attempts at learning, than the discovery at every turn of my own ignorance. And

Je donnerais tout ce que je sais pour la moitié de ce que je ne sais pas.

Viver sem filosofia é exatamente como ter os olhos fechados sem nunca procurar abri-los.

To live without philosophizing is in truth the same as keeping the eyes closed without attempting to open them.

Nous sommes dans l'inconcevable, mais avec des repères éblouissants.

Est-ce la porte de notre fin obscure, demandais-tu ? Non. Nous sommes dans l'inconcevable, mais avec des repères éblouissants.

The more one approaches madness, the more one equally approaches the truth, and if one does not fall into the former, one must end up necessarily in the latter.

I am convinced that we have entered an era when anthropology will become a more relevant tool than political science. We will have to radically change our interpretation of events, stop thinking as products of the Enlightenment, and finally envisage the radical nature of violence; this will produce a quite different kind of rationality as required by events.

Let us not confuse true enlightenment with the idolatry of the here and now.

Modern man, instead of attempting to raise himself to truth, seeks to drag truth down to his own level.

The "end of a world" never is and never can be anything but the end of an illusion.

The only real purpose of being here on this earth is to learn or to re-remember our original natural state of no limitations." Lester Levenson, from Will Power audio

When you lose the eyes of ego you see with the eyes of God." Mooji

You will reach a point where you know with certainty that you are in the realm of divinity, or for those who prefer to use the word "God," in the presence of God. To be in the presence of God or the realm of divinity is to be beyond the mind.

Buddha said that you have no cause for anything but gratitude and joy.

Knowing that we are the perfect Self, that we are not this limited body and mind, all problems immediately resolve." Lester Levenson, from Happiness Is Free, volumes 1–5

There's something beyond all this. We see hints in books and music.

Cognsctis vrittem et vrits lberbit vs. (John 8.32: