Enlightenment Quotes - Page 2

We live in an age that's repeating itself endlessly. We're getting closer again to the techno-chic world we saw in Atlantis that occurs in countless planes. It's indigenous to enlightenment.

The sinister, the terrible never deceive: the state in which they leave us is always one of enlightenment. And only this condition of vicious insight allows us a full grasp of the world, all things considered, just as a frigid melancholy grants us full possession of ourselves. We may hide from horror only in the heart of horror. (“The Medusa”)

Do not try to correct the mind. Trying to correct the mind is like trying to correct the waves in the ocean. Can you stop the waves in the ocean? If you want to see an ocean without waves you only have to dive deeper. When you dive deep inside you will experience the stillness of the ocean. And if it is all frozen that is enlightenment.

Just being the seeker, somebody whose open to spiritual enlightenment, is in itself the important thing and it's the reward for being a seeker in this world.

The point of recapitulation in the first movement of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony unleashes one of the most horrifyingly violent episodes in the history of music....The point is not to hold up Beethoven as exceptionally monstrous. The Ninth Symphony is probably our most compelling articulation in music of the contradictory impulses that have organized patriarchal culture since the Enlightenment. Moreover, within the parameters of his own musical compositions, he may be heard as enacting a critique of narrative obligations that is...devestating.

Hip-Hop is my vehicle to scientific and universal enlightenment

Enlightenment is not something you achieve. It is the absence of something. All your life you have been going forward after something, pursuing some goal. Enlightenment is dropping all that.

Education leads to enlightenment. Enlightenment opens the way to empathy. Empathy foreshadows reform.

Have the courage to use your own reason- That is the motto of enlightenment. "Foundations of the Metaphysics of Morals" (1785)

The process of philosophic and scientific enlightenment has shaken the stability of beliefs held explicitly as articles of faith.

Looking for enlightenment is like looking for a flashlight when all you need the flashlight for is to find the flashlight.

The Art of Peace begins with you.

The progress of human enlightenment can go no further than in picturing people not as vicious, but as mistaken.

Dare to know! Have the courage to use your own intelligence!

Enlightenment isn't found with a full stomach, or on a soft pillow.

Enlightenment, and the death which comes before it, is the primary business of Varanasi.

I don't want enlightenment, I want him. Sorry Buddha, I loved him more than you.

Being an outsider to some extent, someone who does not "fit in" with others or is rejected by them for whatever reason, makes life difficult, but it also places you at an advantage as far as enlightenment is concerned. It takes you out of unconsciousness almost by force.

Enlightenment or awakening is not the creation of a new state of affairs but the recognition of what already is.

To start from the self and try to understand all things is delusion. To let the self be awakened by all things is enlightenment.

Enlightenment is intimacy with all things.

Ultimately one must abandon the path to enlightenment. If you still define yourself as a Buddhist, you are not a buddha yet.

Enlightenments, like accidents, happen only to prepared minds.

One always begins with the simple, then comes the complex, and by superior enlightenment one often reverts in the end to the simple. Such is the course of human intelligence.

Enlightenment is an accident, but some activities make you accident-prone.