Enlightenment Quotes - Page 20

• You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.

  Dale Carnegie

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Education

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• Sometimes it takes more courage not to let yourself see. Sometimes knowledge is damaging - not enlightenment but enleadenment.

  Marisha Pessl

  Sometimes

  Marisha Pessl (2006). “Special Topics in Calamity Physics”, p.160, Penguin

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

  Immanuel Kant

  Foundation, Use, Moral

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

  John Burdett

  Sorry, Want, Want Him

  "Bangkok 8". Book by John Burdett, June, 2003.

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• Enlightenment is understanding that there is nowhere to go, nothing to do, and nobody you have to be except exactly who you're being right now.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Inspirational, Religious, Understanding

  Neale Donald Walsch (1996). “Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue”, p.81, Penguin

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• The journey of a thousand miles begins with a cash advance.

  Alton Brown

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• The state of ambiguity - that messy, greasy, mixed-up, confused, and awful situation you're living through right now - is enlightenment itself.

  Brad Warner

  Confused, Awful, States

  Brad Warner (2010). “Sit Down and Shut Up: Punk Rock Commentaries on Buddha, God, Truth, Sex, Death, and Dogen's Treasury of the Right Dharma Eye”, p.28, New World Library

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• No real social change has ever been brought about without a revolution - Revolution is but thought carried into action. Every effort for progress, for enlightenment, for science, for religious, political, and economic liberty, emanates from the minority, and not from the mass.

  Emma Goldman

  Religious, Real, Effort

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• Don't you think I have sense enough to worry about my motives for saying the prayer? That's exactly what's bothering me so. Just because I'm choosy about what I want - in this case, enlightenment or peace, instead or money or prestige or game or any of those things, doesn't mean I'm not as egotistical and self-seeking as everybody else. If anything, I'm more so!

  J. D. Salinger

  Prayer, Mean, Thinking

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• 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.

  Rajneesh

  Lying, Healing, Sky

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• Men towering high above such political pygmies, men of refinement, of culture, of ability, are jeered into silence as mollycoddles. It is absurd to claim that ours is the era of individualism. Ours is merely a more poignant repetition of the phenomenon of all history: every effort for progress, for enlightenment, for science, for religious, political, and economic liberty, emanates from the minority, and not from the mass. Today, as ever, the few are misunderstood, hounded, imprisoned, tortured, and killed.

  Emma Goldman

  Religious, Men, Silence

  Emma Goldman (1983). “Red Emma Speaks: An Emma Goldman Reader”, Schocken

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• There is probably no more terrible instant of enlightenment than the one in which you discover your father is a man - with human flesh.

  Frank Herbert

  Father, Men, Flesh

  Frank Herbert (2003). “Dune”, p.96, Penguin

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• There is no holy life. There is no war between good and evil. There is no sin and no redemption. None of these things matter to the real you. But they all matter hugely to the false you, the one who believes in the separate self. You have tried to take your separate self, with all its loneliness and anxiety and pride, to the door of enlightenment. But it will never go through, because it is a ghost.

  Deepak Chopra

  Spiritual, Real, War

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• ...the past gives you an identity and the future holds the promise of salvation, of fulfillment in whaterver form. Both are illusions.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Past, Giving, Promise

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.49, New World Library

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• Strange enlightenments are vouchsafed to those who seek the higher places.

  Flann O'Brien

  Strange, Higher

  "The Complete Novels".

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• The 'Enlightenment', which discovered the liberties, also invented the disciplines.

  Michel Foucault

  Discipline, Liberty

  Michel Foucault (2012). “Discipline & Punish: The Birth of the Prison”, p.222, Vintage

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• Sometimes it takes more courage not to let yourself see. Sometimes knowledge is damaging - not enlightenment but enleadenment. If one recognizes the difference and prepares oneself - it is extraordinarily brave. Because when it comes to certain human miseries, the only witnesses should be the pavement and maybe the trees. (Gareth van Meer)

  Marisha Pessl

  Differences, Tree, Brave

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• In this world, there is a fine line between enlightenment and brain damage.

  Neal Shusterman

  Brain, World, Lines

  Neal Shusterman (2008). “Antsy Does Time”, p.145, Penguin

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• Faith does not protect you. Medicine and airbags... Those are the things that protect you. God does not protect you. Intelligence protects you. Enlightenment. Put your faith in something with tangible results. How long has it been since someone walked on water? Modern miracles belong to science. Computers, vaccines, space stations... Even the divine miracle of creation. Matter from nothing... In a lab. Who needs God? No! Science is God!

  Dan Brown

  Vaccines, Medicine, Space

  "Angels and Demons". Book by Dan Brown, 2000.

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• Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the assessment that something else is more important than fear.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Enlightenment will be now the beginning, not the end. Beginning of a non-ending process in all dimensions of richness.

  Rajneesh

  Inspirational, Dimensions, Ends

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• Reading it the night before, I'd wondered if it would be like that for me-if in one moment, I would finally understand her, know her, and understand the role I'd played in her dying. But I wasn't convinced enlightenment struck like lightining.

  John Green

  Reading, Night, Dying

  John Green (2015). “Looking For Alaska Special 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.149, Penguin

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• No single step in the persuit of enlightenment should ever be considered sacred; only the search was.

  Ann Druyan

  Sacred, Steps, Should

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• Truly, he thought, the way of enlightenment is like unto half a mile of broken glass.

  Terry Pratchett

  Glasses, Broken, Half

  Terry Pratchett (2009). “Mort: (Discworld Novel 4)”, p.233, Random House

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• Perhaps a creature of so much ingenuity and deep memory is almost bound to grow alienated from his world, his fellows, and the objects around him. He suffers from a nostalgia for which there is no remedy upon earth except as it is to be found in the enlightenment of the spirit--some ability to have a perceptive rather than an exploitive relationship with his fellow creatures.

  Loren Eiseley

  Nature, Memories, Suffering

  Loren Eiseley (2016). “The Invisible Pyramid: A Library of America eBook Classic”, p.114, Library of America

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