Quotes about Enlightenment

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.

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.

Our eyes are holden that we cannot see things that stare us in the face, until the hour arrives when the mind is ripened; then we behold them, and the time when we saw them not is like a dream.

Genius is religious.

I become the transparent eyeball...

Learn how to carry a friendship greatly, whether or not it is returned. Why should one regret if the receiver is not equally generous? It never troubles the sun that some of his rays fall wide and vain into ungrateful space, and only a small part on the reflecting planet. Let your greatness educate the crude and cold companion. If he is unequal, he will presently pass away; but thou art enlarged by thy own shining.

and beauty and goodness comes to each man directly, in flashes of spiritual light