Quotes about Enlightenment

Once you learn to read, you'll be forever free. Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.

As love comes from knowledge, so hatred comes from want of knowledge. Bigotry is the fruit of ignorance.

I want to be ignorant of everything in the world — everything but You, dear Jesus. And then, by the strangest of strange paradoxes, I shall be wise!

If I don't have wisdom, I can teach you only ignorance.

A form of reason that in some way wished to strip itself of beauty would be diminished; it would be a blinded reason.

Give up the belief that mind is, even temporarily, compressed within the skull, and you will quickly become more manly or womanly. You will understand yourself and your Maker better than before.

You have the power within you to endure anything, for your mere opinion can render it tolerable, perhaps even acceptable, by regarding it as an opportunity for enlightenment or a matter of duty.

He blind, who cannot see with the eyes of his understanding.

How intolerant it is not to permit men to cherish an impulse towards what is in their eyes congenial and advantageous! Yet in a sense thou withholdest from them the right to do this, when thou resentest their wrong-doing. For they are undoubtedly drawn to what they deem congenial and advantageous. But they are mistaken. Well, then, teach and enlighten them without any resentment.

The genius of Man in our time has gone into jet-propulsion, atom-splitting, penicillin-curing, etc. There is none left over for works of imagination; of spiritual insight or mystical enlightenment.

To search for God is to have found God is deeply profound, because the belief we hold in the existence of another world opens space within us, and around us, which creates a more radiant reality.

Enlightenment demands that you take responsibility for your way of life.