Quotes about Enlightenment

Skeeter stands and tries to comprehend this man. "Trouble with you, he sees, "you still cluttered up with common sense. Common sense is bullshit, man. It gets you through the days all right, but it leaves you alone at night. It keeps you from knowing.

the true value of a human being is determined primarily by the measure and sense in which he has attained liberation from the self." Einstein

Simply put, meditation is the path to clarity, compassion, and a path of wisdom leading to the eradication of suffering.

Jesus brooded upon the Divine imminence until at last he could declare, 'I and my Father are One.'

Ignorance is the father of all fear.

The only medicine for suffering, crime, and all other woes of mankind, is wisdom. Teach a man to read and write, and you have put into his hands the great keys of the wisdom box. But it is quite another thing to open the box.

Rightly defined philosophy is simply the love of wisdom.

There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do.

There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do.

If we will not learn to eat the only food that the universe grows...then we must starve eternally.

The only freedom is the freedom from the known.

Freedom begins where it ends ignorance.