Quotes about Enlightenment

The trouble is that most Christians pushed this great liberation off into the next world, and many Twelve Steppers settled for mere sobriety from a substance instead of a real transformation of the self. We have all been the losers, as a result—waiting around for "enlightenment at gunpoint" (death) instead of enjoying God's banquet much earlier in life.

First of all, you can only see and understand the earlier stages from the wider perspective of the later stages. This is why mature societies were meant to be led by elders, seniors, saints, and "the initiated." They alone are in a position to be true leaders in a society, or certainly in any spiritual organization. Without them, "the blind lead the blind

Our prayer is not simply, 'Dear God, please send me a better job,' but, 'Dear God, enable me to see this situation differently, that this area of apparent lack might be healed inside my mind.

Oh, be wise, thou! Instructed that true knowledge leads to love.

Live a life of rightness. Seek to follow the blessed Lord, and pray for enlightenment for others.

My darkness has been filled with the light of intelligence, and behold, the outer day-lit world was stumbling and groping in social blindness.

I come from the Town of Stupidity; it lieth about four degrees beyond the City of Destruction.

Real freedom is not something to be acquired, it is the outcome of intelligence.

Nothing is better than reading and gaining more and more knowledge.

Knowledge come from looking around; wisdom comes from looking up.

Wisdom is an ornament of grace to the soul.

Jesus was a human being who, while on Earth, completely self-actualized and fulfilled in all ways the potential glory that lies within us all.