Enlightenment Quotes

They [his readers, whom he asks to be his friends] will find that I have always loved truth so passi...

You can't love your mother or father if you don't also have the capacity to grieve their deaths and,...

It is not that we love to be alone, but that we love to soar, and when we do soar, the company grows...

Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations. Book...

An enlightened man had but one duty - to seek the way to himself, to reach inner certainty, to grope...

It [enlightenment] has not come to you by means of teaching! And-thus is my thought, oh exalted one,...

I shall no longer be instructed by the Yoga Veda or the Aharva Veda, or the ascetics, or any other d...

Now Siddhartha also got some idea of why he had fought this self in vain as a Brahman, as a penitent...

Despair is the result of each earnest attempt to go through life with virtue, justice and understand...

Enlightenment is man's emergence from his self-imposed nonage. Nonage is the inability to use one's ...

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

Enlightenment is man's release from his self-incurred tutelage. Tutelage is man's inability to make ...

...new prejudices will serve as well as old ones to harness the great unthinking masses.For this enl...

An age cannot bind itself and ordain to put the succeeding one into such a condition that it cannot ...

An age cannot bind itself and ordain to put the succeeding one into such a condition that it cannot ...

[To think for oneself] is the maxim of a reason never passive. The tendency to such passivity, and t...

If I have a book that thinks for me, a pastor who acts as my conscience, a physician who prescribes ...

Practice kindness all day to everybody and you will realize you’re already in heaven now.

To live is not to breathe but to act. It is to make use of our organs, our senses, our faculties, of...

And what is enlightenment anyway but delusions we can live with?

You only learn when you give your whole being to something. When you give your whole being to mathem...

If you would listen, sir, in the sense of being aware of your conflicts and contradictions without f...

Everything transitory is but an image.

There is strong shadow where there is much light.

There is nothing in which mankind have been more unanimous [founding nations upon superstition]; yet...

It seemed as though he had a fundamental belief that the merit of his argument depended on the stren...

And I envy you. You have the one thing that matters. You have all your discoveries before you.

To be taught to read—what is the use of that, if you know not whether what you read is false or true...

They trespassed upon my thoughts. They were intruders whose knowledge of life was to me an irritatin...

But sometimes, by the deserving and the fortunate, even that task is accomplished. And when it is ac...

The best way to obtain truth and wisdom is not to ask from books, but to go to God in prayer, and ob...

The sea is only the embodiment of asupernatural and wonderful existence.It is nothing but love and e...

Perhaps one day, all these conflicts will end, and it won't be because of great statesmen or churche...

It isn't by getting out of the world that we become enlightened, but by getting into the world…by ge...

The point of the overall meditative path is to have Wakefulness (or Consciousness as Such) transcend...

When a man becomes a writer, I think he takes on a sacred obligation to produce beauty and enlighten...

Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is Enlightenment.

Knowing others is Wisdom, knowing yourself is Enlightenment

The world demands I make good choices on no information, and then blames my maidenhood for my mistak...

There was hardly an eminent writer in Paris who was unacquainted with the inside of the Conciergerie...

[Pascal] was the first and perhaps is still the most effective voice to be raised in warning of the ...

Sometimes people claim they don't need a crutch like Jesus, but he's not a crutch, he's a teacher. I...

Movies can be instruments of enlightenment.

A spiritual reinterpretation of events gives us miraculous authority to command the winds, to part t...

How odd that we spend so much time treating the darkness, and so little time seeking the light. The ...

From a mind filled with infinite love comes the power to create infinite possibilities. We have the ...

You can't expect anyone to trust revelation if he hasn't experienced it himself. Those who haven't o...

I feel that the essence of dance is the expression of man--the landscape of his soul. I hope that ev...

Everything, however complicated - breaking waves, migrating birds, and tropical forests - is made of...

Women are told from their infancy, and taught by the example of their mothers, that a little knowleg...

Have we,” asks Claude de Saint-Martin, the great ‘unknown philosopher,’ “have we advanced one step f...

Our whole education system is calculated to produce *feelings* in us, impart them to us, instead of ...

There are five people you meet in heaven," the Blue Man suddenly said. "Each of us was in your life ...

At the same time, we may not as a culture be fond of old-fashioned supernaturalism, but we certainly...

The capitalists are the brains of civilization, because they supply the entire fabric of which all e...

Meditation is a way to be narcissistic without hurting anyone

These ideas grew out of the Enlightenment; their roots are in Rousseau’s Discourse on Inequality, Hu...

You British plundered half the world for your own profit. Let's not pass it off as the Age of Enligh...

As in the days of the first Merovingian, who pledged allegiance to the cross because of a victorious...

Via the mediation of the Enlightenment, this movement had changed from a hobby among a tiny literate...

If Enlightenment in a technical sense is the programmatic word for progress in the awareness of expl...

Hence there is no free admission to the process of enlightenment - it is always paid at a psycho-tra...

The Enlightenment, finally, invented progressive 'history' as an inner-worldly purgatory in order to...

I lifted you from the tomb world just now and I will continue to lift you until you lose interest an...

I did not tell Fat this, but technically he had become a Buddha. It did not seem to me like a good i...

It is better to enlighten men’s minds than to teach them to be obstinate in their prejudices.

It is the task of the enlightened not only to ascend to learning and to see the good but to be willi...

How could they see anything but the shadows if they were never allowed to move their heads?

We think a wise person is someone who solves problems. Truth is, a wise person is someone who avoids...

It is not the simple statement of facts that ushers in freedom; it is the constant repetition of the...

Only he whose bright lyrehas sounded in shadowsmay, looking onward, restorehis infinite praise. Only...

There is creative reading as well as creative writing.

He in whom the love of repose predominates will accept the first creed, the first philosophy, the fi...

Your own Self-Realization is the greatest service you can render the world.

The things that come to us easily, our propensities, are carried on a deep subconscious level into o...

This thing I am feeling, I’m almost certain, is the closest I’ll ever come to standing somewhere in ...

Similitude of the heart is like that of a telephone operator between man and God.

God’s love supersedes all religions and it is the core of all religions.

If we are too friendly to nice, decent bishops, we run the risk of buying into the fiction that ther...

We could express this power in the following way: Most of the time we live in an interior world of d...

We could express this power in the following way: Most of the time we live in an interior world of d...

We could express this power in the following way: Most of the time we live in an interior world of d...

We could express this power in the following way: Most of the time we live in an interior world of d...

What is in mind is a sort of Chautauqua...that’s the only name I can think of for it...like the trav...

I want to talk about another kind of high country now in the world of thought, which in some ways, f...

Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.

He suddenly understood the message of so many spiritual teachers that the only revolution that can w...

In the most general terms, the Enlightenment goes back to Plato's belief that truth and beauty and g...

Feel nothing, know nothing, do nothing, have nothing, give up all to God, and say utterly, 'Thy will...

Even more than the time when she gave birth, a mother feels her greatest joy when she hears others r...

But I wish to be enlightened.''Let me caution you against it.''Is enlightenment on the subject, then...

The sinister, the terrible never deceive: the state in which they leave us is always one of enlighte...

For a brief moment I felt I was the older, the more mature."A gift of life," I responded, "if not to...

In the end, no one can seek God unless he has already begun to find him.

Love releases us into the realm of divine imagination, where the soul is expanded and reminded of it...

A person has all sorts of lags built into him, Kesey is saying. One, the most basic, is the sensory ...

What you know can never be the beyond. Whatever you experience is not the beyond. If there is any be...

Intellectual and moral growth is no less indispensable than material amelioration...If three is anyt...

The true division of humanity is this: the luminous and the dark.To diminish the number of the dark,...

The central ideas of Christianity — an angry God and vicarious atonement — are contrary to every fac...