Enlightenment Quotes - Page 4

Many people are so poor that the only thing they have is money. Cultivate your spiritual growth.

The sage is sick of being sick (Tao Te Ching)

When the Self is freed from mind there are no limits to what one can experience.

Enlightenment, and the death which comes before it, is the primary business of Varanasi.

We owe a huge debt to Galileo for emancipating us all from the stupid belief in an Earth-centered or man-centered (let alone God-centered) system. He quite literally taught us our place and allowed us to go on to make extraordinary advances in knowledge.

Enlightenment is at the source of everything. From it, flows our Intuition and our creative energy. It is the delta of the human spirit ~ what we innately seek to return to, as we find ourselves lost in this world.

Never put yourself in a position to be made an example of.

Total Enlightenment is 'Vision without Purpose'.

The mystic, identifying neither with his-her race-religion-gender nor with any mind-made blunder, lives and dies in One's splendor.

An educated man believing in a this-that vile sky-god rewarding him-her, but punishing your enemies with hell and fire, is uneducated.

By god the Buddhist means that from which the universe was born, the unborn of the Buddhist scriptures, and by soul that factor in the thing called man which moves towards enlightenment. Why need more be said of it, at any rate those who are not content with scholarship, but strive to attain that same enlightenment?

Does one really have to fret
About enlightenment?
No matter what road I travel,
I’m going home.

Last night I lost the world, and gained the universe.

A person must earn enlightenment, Eragon. It is not handed down to you by others, regardless of how revered they be.

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

Whenever you read a good book, somewhere in the world a door opens to allow in more light.

Education leads to enlightenment. Enlightenment opens the way to empathy. Empathy foreshadows reform.

It is the task of the enlightened not only to ascend to learning and to see the good but to be willing to descend again to those prisoners and to share their troubles and their honors, whether they are worth having or not. And this they must do, even with the prospect of death.

In so many ways we are still in the dark ages, but there is light appearing over the horizon of choice and consciousness.

Even more than the time when she gave birth, a mother feels her greatest joy when she hears others refer to her son as a wise learned one.