Quotes about Enlightenment

Learning is its own exceeding great reward.

Pray the largest prayers. You cannot think a prayer so large that God, in answering it, will not wish you had made it larger. Pray not for crutches but for wings.

He who thinks he knows, doesn't know. He who knows that he doesn't know, knows. For in this context, to know is not to know. And not to know is to know.

enlarge the pupil of the eye, so that the body with its attendant personality will no longer obstruct the view. Immortality is then experienced as a present fact...

The problem of the hero is to pierce himself (and therewith his world) precisely through that point; to shatter and annihilate that key knot of his limited existence.

Those who know, not only that the Everlasting lives in them, but that what they, and all things, really are is the Everlasting, dwell in the groves of the wish-fulfilling trees, drink the brew of immortality, and listen everywhere to the unheard music of eternal concord. These are the immortals.

We are all reflexes of the image of the Bodhisattva. The sufferer within us is that divine being.

Many times one is forced to descend to deep, dark regions, in order to find there the greatest, noblest and freest light.

I don't think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.

Blessed are they who seek to learn wisdom.

We are wiser than we know.

Nature is made to conspire with spirit to emancipate us.