Enlightenment Quotes

To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one's family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one's own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.
Buddha

Peace, Happiness, Family

Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is Enlightenment.
Lao Tzu

Wisdom, Yourself, Others

Always keep your mind as bright and clear as the vast sky, the great ocean, and the highest peak, empty of all thoughts. Always keep your body filled with light and heat. Fill yourself with the power of wisdom and enlightenment.
Morihei Ueshiba

Great, Power, Wisdom

I would say any behavior that is not the status quo is interpreted as insanity, when, in fact, it might actually be enlightenment. Insanity is sorta in the eye of the beholder.
Chuck Palahniuk

Fact, Might, Actually

The Bible and several other self help or enlightenment books cite the Seven Deadly Sins. They are: pride, greed, lust, envy, wrath, sloth, and gluttony. That pretty much covers everything that we do, that is sinful... or fun for that matter.
Dave Mustaine

Fun, Help, Envy

Everyone has a spirit that can be refined, a body that can be trained in some manner, a suitable path to follow. You are here to realize your inner divinity and manifest your innate enlightenment.
Morihei Ueshiba

Path, Here, Everyone

Enlightenment is the key to everything, and it is the key to intimacy, because it is the goal of true authenticity.
Marianne Williamson

True, Everything, Goal

The enlightenment is under threat. So is reason. So is truth. So is science, especially in the schools of America.
Richard Dawkins

Truth, Science, America

Before anything else, we need a new age of Enlightenment. Our present political systems must relinquish their claims on truth, justice and freedom and have to replace them with the search for truth, justice, freedom and reason.
Friedrich Durrenmatt

Age, Truth, Freedom

By any reasonable measure of achievement, the faith of the Enlightenment thinkers in science was justified.
E. O. Wilson

Faith, Science, Reasonable

The real meaning of enlightenment is to gaze with undimmed eyes on all darkness.
Nikos Kazantzakis

Real, Eyes, Darkness

Borrowing knowledge of reality from all sources, taking the best from every study, Science of Mind brings together the highest enlightenment of the ages.
Ernest Holmes

Best, Knowledge, Science

Ignorance has always been the weapon of tyrants; enlightenment the salvation of the free.
Bill Richardson

Ignorance, Free, Salvation

And as long as you're subject to birth and death, you'll never attain enlightenment.
Bodhidharma

Death, Long, Birth

Enlightenment must come little by little - otherwise it would overwhelm.
Idries Shah

Otherwise, Overwhelm

Not creating delusions is enlightenment.
Bodhidharma

Creating, Delusions

Our freedoms were born in the ideals of the Enlightenment and the musket fires of an historic revolution.
John Boehner

Revolution, Born, Ideals

I don't believe that human beings can achieve ultimate enlightenment, because humans have flaws.
Tiger Woods

Human, Achieve, Ultimate

I think the Enlightenment is leading us into a dark hole, really.
David Hockney

Dark, Leading, Hole

There is no fundamental difference between the preparation for death and the practice of dying, and spiritual practice leading to enlightenment.
Stanislav Grof

Death, Spiritual, Between

God is not anything human. God is a force, God is chaos, God is unknown. God is terror and enlightenment at the same time.
Ralph Fiennes

Time, God, Human

From Caesar's legions to the Napoleonic wars. From the Reformation, the Enlightenment and the industrial revolution to the defeat of nazism. We have helped to write European history, and Europe has helped write ours.
David Cameron

History, Revolution, Write

It is not the simple statement of facts that ushers in freedom; it is the constant repetition of them that has this liberating effect. Tolerance is the result not of enlightenment, but of boredom.
Quentin Crisp

Freedom, Simple, Boredom

Do not think you will necessarily be aware of your own enlightenment.
Dogen

Many spiritual teachers - in Buddhism, in Islam - have talked about first-hand experience of the world as an important part of the path to wisdom, to enlightenment.
Bell Hooks

Experience, Wisdom, Spiritual

There is no doubt that religion had already waned under the onslaught of the Enlightenment, but it was Freud who provided the radically new understanding of human nature that made any religious explanation of the whats and whys of our personhood seem naive.
Tony Campolo

Religion, Nature, Human

Religions have always stressed that compassion is not only central to religious life, it is the key to enlightenment and it the true test of spirituality. But there have always have been those who'd rather put easier goals, like doctrine conformity, in place.
Karen Armstrong

Life, True, Put

The left has come to regard common sense - the traditional wisdom and folkways of the community - as an obstacle to progress and enlightenment.
Christopher Lasch

Wisdom, Sense, Progress

There are about 15 million Muslims in the EU. They face ignorance, insult and even persecution. They cannot be wished away. To impose Enlightenment freedoms is self-defeating. Anyway, the Muslims have their own enlightenment.
James Buchan

Ignorance, Cannot, Away

Emancipation came to the colored race in America as a war measure. It was an act of military necessity. Manifestly it would have come without war, in the slower process of humanitarian reform and social enlightenment.
Wendell Willkie

War, America, Social

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