Quotes About Enlightenment

Ignorance is not bliss. Ignorance is poverty. Ignorance is devastation. Ignorance is tragedy. And ignorance is illness. It all stems from ignorance.

The evolution of the New Era rests on the cornerstone of Knowledge and Beauty.

Without knowing the Knower, all the knowledge that one gathers cannot be valid.

Ignorance seldom vaults into knowledge, but passes into it through an intermediate state of obscurity, even as night into day through twilight.

We live on an island surrounded by a sea of ignorance. As our island of knowledge grows, so does the shore of our ignorance.

Nothing is more powerful and liberating than knowledge.

No man can attain to the knowledge of God but by humility. The way to mount high is to descend.

For me the most important thing is to spread the Hindu knowledge about the soul. This is more important than any other knowledge and is my main priority.

The best prescription is knowledge.

Knowledge is great; wisdom is even better.

There's no path to liberation that doesn't pass through the shadow.

The Buddha's dharma didn't teach peace and relaxation; it taught awakening—often rude awakening.

the Enlightenment dream of inevitable human progress, grounded in the claim that we are all born free and equal in dignity and rights, and premised on hope that the arc of history bends toward justice, is now in tatters.

Thus the cerebral footings were laid. Voltaire preferred intellectual liberty and enlightened despotism. Montesquieu wanted limited monarchy and a separation of political powers. Rousseau dreamed of an ideal republican commonwealth.

I'm hungry for knowledge. The whole thing is to learn every day, to get brighter and brighter. That's what this world is about. You look at someone like Gandhi, and he glowed. Martin Luther King glowed. Muhammad Ali glows. I think that's from being bright all the time, and trying to be brighter.

Oh, how fine it is to know a thing or two.

Whoever has this Gnosis...takes what is his and restores it to himself. By Gnosis, a man knows 'whence he has come and whither he is going.

He who ends with the most understanding wins.

The real quest begins when this not-knowing ceases to be an agnostic concept and becomes a living experience.

Advaita is not a system, a religion or technique. It is not even a philosophy. It is simply the truth.

achievements. The world is directed towards the perceiver, it celebrates the ultimate perceiver. He who is established in the Self is in no way interested in theologies and cosmologies.

But as Ram Dass once said, you know, if you think you're enlightened, go spend a weekend with your parents.

We do not posses imagination enough to sense what we are missing.

The Buddhists say there are 149 ways to God. I'm not looking for God, only for myself, and that is far more complicated. God has had a great deal written about Him; nothing has been written about me. God is bigger, like my mother, easier to find, even in the dark. I could be anywhere, and since I can't describe myself I can't ask for help.