Quotes About Enlightenment

God's grace consists in the fact that He shines in the heart of every one as the Self; that power of grace does not exclude any one, whether good or otherwise.

I definitely believe in the power of education. I believe the more people know, the more they are able to do what they can.

In Shankaracharya we saw tremendous intellectual power, throwing the scorching light of reason upon everything.

The most intimate question we can ask, and the one that has the most spiritual power, is this: What or who am I?

Everything is shown up by being exposed to the light, and whatever is exposed to the light itself becomes light.

Presumably man's spirit should be elevated if he can better review his shady past and analyze more completely and objectively his present problems.

Ignorant power is a bane!

Had I the power, I would scatter libraries over the whole land as the sower sows his wheatfield.

You may feel a sensation of floating. You may see colors, maybe no phenomena, it doesn't matter. You are absorbing power.

Meditation is a violent act of separation from mass consciousness and direct access to power.

To conquer others is to have power, to conquer yourself is to know the way.

Anyone who is practicing understanding and compassion can exemplify true power. Anyone can be a Buddha.

The writers of the French enlightenment had deliberately used blasphemy as a weapon, refusing to accept the power of the Church to set limiting points on thought.

Out of purity and silence comes the word of power.

It is the highest manifestation of the power of Vairagya when it takes away even our attraction towards the qualities.

The objective tendency of the Enlightenment, to wipe out the power of images over man, is not matched by any subjective progress on the part of enlightened thinking towards freedom from images.

You can't just provide power, you also need public education.

Be a person that radiates happiness with her every movement and enlightens every place she goes with her smile.

Ignorance is what is destroying us and not the devil.

If there is anything the devil will want to keep you from having, it is knowledge.

To break yourself loose from the dominion, rulership and manipulation of the devil, you have to embrace light (knowledge).

Mind knows the questions, soul knows the answers.

Unless the Self is known, the power of the Self (swa satta) cannot arise.

The only power which can illuminate you is your own mind! No other mind can lighten you if your mind insists to remain in the darkness! The fate of your fate is within you!