Quotes About Enlightenment

One idea lights a thousand candles.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The things taught in schools and colleges are not an education, but the means to an education.

Life is a festival only to the wise.

Our eyes are holden that we cannot see things that stare us in the face, until the hour arrives when the mind is ripened; then we behold them, and the time when we saw them not is like a dream.

The soul is superior to its knowledge; wiser than any of its works.

Standing on the bare ground,—my head bathed by the blithe air, and uplifted into infinite space,—all mean egotism vanishes. I become a transparent eye-ball; I am nothing; I see all; the currents of the Universal Being circulate through me; I am part or particle of God.

An idea lights a thousand candles.

for the universe becomes transparent, and the light of higher laws

The presence of a higher, namely, of the spiritual element is essential to its perfection.

and beauty and goodness comes to each man directly, in flashes of spiritual light

education is more precious than that which we call so.

Our eyes are holden that we cannot see things that stare us in the face, until the hour arrives when the mind is ripened; then we behold them, and the time when we saw them not is like a dream. — Ralph Waldo Emerson, from "Spiritual Laws," Essays and Lectures . (Library of America November 15, 1983)

Information is just bits of data. Knowledge is putting them together. Wisdom is transcending them.

We're here to awaken from the illusion of separateness

If you think you are enlightened; go home for Thanksgiving.

It's all real and it's all illusory: that's Awareness!

Just because you are seeing divine light, experiencing waves of bliss, or conversing with Gods and Goddesses is no reason to not know your zip code.

All spiritual practices are illusions created by illusionists to escape illusion.

The freer I get, the higher I go. The higher I go, the more I see. The more I see, the less I know. The less I know, the more I'm free.

The cosmic humor is that if you desire to move mountains and you continue to purify yourself, ultimately you will arrive at the place where you are able to move mountains. But in order to arrive at this position of power you will have had to give up being he-who-wanted-to-move-mountains so that you can be he-who-put-the-mountain-there-in-the-first-place. The humor is that finally when you have the power to move the mountain, you are the person who placed it there--so there the mountain stays.

Cosmic humor, especially about your own predicament, is an important part of your journey.

We're being trained through our incarnations--trained to seek love, trained to seek light, trained to see the grace in suffering.

To him who has had the experience no explanation is necessary, to him who has not, none is possible.