Enlightenment Quotes
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"Last night I lost the world, and gained the universe."
"Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel."
"To Do Today, 1/17/081. Sit and think2. Reach enlightenment3. Feed the cats"
"There is creative reading as well as creative writing."
"Art is unquestionably one of the purest and highest elements in human happiness. It trains the mind through the eye, and the eye through the mind. As the sun colors flowers, so does art color life."
"With me, illusions are bound to be shattered. I am here to shatter all illusions. Yes, it will irritate you, it will annoy you - that's my way of functioning and working. I will sabotage you from your very roots! Unless you are totally destroyed as a mind, there is no hope for you."
"Enlightenment is man's release from his self-incurred tutelage. Tutelage is man's inability to make use of his understanding without direction from another. Self-incurred is this tutelage when its cause lies not in lack of reason but in lack of resolution and courage to use it without direction from another. Sapere aude! 'Have courage to use your own reason!'- that is the motto of enlightenment."
"Life is like a game of chess.To win you have to make a move.Knowing which move to make comes with IN-SIGHTand knowledge, and by learning the lessons that areacculated along the way.We become each and every piece within the game called life!"
"The road to enlightenment is long and difficult, and you should try not to forget snacks and magazines."
"Do not look for happiness outside yourself. The awakened seek happiness inside."
"We owe a huge debt to Galileo for emancipating us all from the stupid belief in an Earth-centered or man-centered (let alone God-centered) system. He quite literally taught us our place and allowed us to go on to make extraordinary advances in knowledge."
"In his face there came to be a brooding peace that is seen most often in the faces of the very sorrowful or the very wise. But still he wandered through the streets of the town, always silent and alone."
"Your own Self-Realization is the greatest service you can render the world."
"Life is like a sandwich!Birth as one slice,and death as the other.What you put in-between the slices is up to you.Is your sandwich tasty or sour?Allan Rufus.org"
"My spirit is healthy, yes. But I tell you, my flesh is healthy too. I am enlightened and free, but I am also lustful and carnal."
"I've learned .... That opportunities are never lost; someone will take the ones you miss."
"Whenever you read a good book, somewhere in the world a door opens to allow in more light."
"How could they see anything but the shadows if they were never allowed to move their heads?"
"Always try and be a better person than you were yesterday, cause we aren't guaranteed tomorrow."
"We do not have to be ashamed of what we are. As sentient beings we have wonderful backgrounds. These backgrounds may not be particularly enlightened or peaceful or intelligent. Nevertheless, we have soil good enough to cultivate; we can plant anything in it."
"What drains your spirit drains your body. What fuels your spirit fuels your body."
"The closer you come to knowing that you alone create the world of your experience, the more vital it becomes for you to discover just who is doing the creating."
"To live is not to breathe but to act. It is to make use of our organs, our senses, our faculties, of all the parts of ourselves which give us the sentiment of our existence. The man who has lived the most is not he who has counted the most years but he who has most felt life."
"Education leads to enlightenment. Enlightenment opens the way to empathy. Empathy foreshadows reform."
"Suffering just means you’re having a bad dream. Happiness means you’re having a good dream. Enlightenment means getting out of the dream altogether."
"Just remember this, my girl, when you look up in the sky you can see the stars and still not see the light."
"There are those who know and those who don't know. And for every ten thousand who don't know there's only one who knows. That's the miracle of all time--the fact that these millions know so much but don't know this."
"I used to think that once you really knew a thing, its truth would shine on forever. Now it's pretty obvious to me that more often than not the batteries fade, and sometimes what you knew even goes out with a bang when you try and call on it, just like a light bulb cracking off when you throw the switch."
"The best kind of happiness is a habit you're passionate about."
"It’s ever been the way of the man of science or philosophy. Most folks stay in the dark and then complain they can’t see nothing.” – Snipes (185)"
"Never allow your ego to diminish your ability to listen."
"We think a wise person is someone who solves problems. Truth is, a wise person is someone who avoids problems."
"What should I do—how should I act now, this very day . . . What she would resolve to do that day did not yet seem quite clear, but something that she could achieve stirred her as with an approaching murmur which would soon gather distinctness."
"To be taught to read—what is the use of that, if you know not whether what you read is false or true? To be taught to write or to speak—but what is the use of speaking, if you have nothing to say? To be taught to think—nay, what is the use of being able to think, if you have nothing to think of? But to be taught to see is to gain word and thought at once, and both true."
"He in whom the love of repose predominates will accept the first creed, the first philosophy, the first political party he meets — most likely his father's. He gets rest, commodity, and reputation; but he shuts the door of truth."
"What can oppose the decline of the west is not a resurrected culture but the utopia that is silently contained in the image of its decline."
"The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp."
"A person must earn enlightenment, Eragon. It is not handed down to you by others, regardless of how revered they be."
"Wisdom comes alone through suffering."
"The problem is not that you have problems; the problem is that you see having problems as a problem."
"The Encyclopedia--the advance artillery of reason, the armada of philosophy, the siege engine of the enlightenment..."
"Philosophy cannot be extinguished, though men will try ... The spirit seeks the light, that is its nature. It wishes to return to its origin, and must forever try to reach enlightenment."
"In the most general terms, the Enlightenment goes back to Plato's belief that truth and beauty and goodness are connected; that truth and beauty, disseminated widely, will sooner or later lead to goodness. (While we're making at effort at truth and goodness, beauty reminds us what we're hold out for.)"
"It is better to enlighten men’s minds than to teach them to be obstinate in their prejudices."
"Enlightenment is light."
"The day you find out the purpose of your existence, is the day you get to know the value of your being."
"Things just are the way they are... However, NOWHERE in ANY law, dogma, or rules is it mandated -be it sanctioned, decreed, or wrought by divine imposition- that ANY OF IT HAS TO BE THIS WAY!"
"One thing: you have to walk, and create the way by your walking; you will not find a ready-made path. It is not so cheap, to reach to the ultimate realization of truth. You will have to create the path by walking yourself; the path is not ready-made, lying there and waiting for you. It is just like the sky: the birds fly, but they don't leave any footprints. You cannot follow them; there are no footprints left behind."
"An age cannot bind itself and ordain to put the succeeding one into such a condition that it cannot extend its (at best very occasional) knowledge , purify itself of errors, and progress in general enlightenment. That would be a crime against human nature, the proper destination of which lies precisely in this progress and the descendants would be fully justified in rejecting those decrees as having been made in an unwarranted and malicious manner.."
Immanuel Kant, An Answer to the Question: What Is Enlightenment?
"Everyone has the fire, but the champions know when to ignite the spark."
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