Quotes about Enlightenment

We would have helped history and individuals so much more if we had spent our time revealing how Christ is everywhere instead of proving that Jesus was God.

As Carol Bialock writes in her poem, we cannot stop the drowning waters of our addictive culture from rising, but we must at least see our reality for what it is, seek to properly detach from it, build a coral castle, and learn to breathe under water. The New Testament called this salvation (some might call it enlightenment); the Twelve Step Program calls it recovery.

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.