Quotes About Enlightenment

Vision is the end of religion.

The main point of enlightenment is man's release from his self-caused immaturity, primarily in matters of religion.

You must worship the Self in Krishna, not Krishna as Krishna.

Zen is a way of liberation concerned not with discovering what is good or bad or advantageous but what is.

God is light.God is knowledge.

TeachingOne hour's teaching is better than a whole night of prayer.

Only through Absolution will you reach the Absolute.

We have come to love darkness of religion more than seeking for the knowledge of God.

When you go with first principles, a giant light goes off in what you think is a city and turns out to be an insane asylum.

While a man of pure intelligence may achieve thegoal by the most casual of instruction, another may seek knowledge all his life and still remain bewildered.

Competition in spiritual matters brings confusion.

One way leads to acquisition, the other leads to nirvana. Realising this a monk should take no pleasure in the respect of others, but should devote himself to solitude.

A better name for nirvana might be endless love. Love not even in the sense that we see it if we're watching the romantic movie, but love in a sense of no absence.

The Enlightenment needs more shadow; the Romantic Movement less.

I would be -- for no knowledge is worth a straw -- Ignorant and wanton as the dawn.

Even if a person excels in Torah and good deeds more than all his contemporaries, if he has not learned the secrets of Torah and the wisdom of truth, he must reincarnate in the world (...) Now the matter is clarifiedthe whole part of the revealed Torah is but a preparation to become worthy and merit attaining the concealed part. It is the concealed part that is very wholeness and the purpose for which man is created.

esa parte de nosotros que los sabios llaman el Deseo de recibir sólo para nosotros mismos; debemos arrancarlo de raíz y transformarlo en algo positivo.

La misión de encontrar y destruir a nuestro propio ego nos acerca a la grandeza.

They'll live their lives in their ignorance, but not I. Why do I read books if not to live up to principles that are worth striving for?

Travel light, live light, spread the light, be the light.

Be enlightened that the other human being is you. Understand through compassion that passion will make you misunderstand. Vibrate on the cosmos and the cosmos will clear your path. When fear and insecurity leave you, truth and spirit will be with you. T

it's said that the ground directly beneath the lantern is always the darkest.

T]he ground directly beneath the lantern is always the darkest.

It is a premise of Enlightenment liberalism that the only legitimate purpose of government is to enable individuals to make use of the freedom that is theirs by nature.