Inspirational Quotes
Words to motivate, inspire, and guide you.
Enlightenment Quotes
EnlightenmentInner PeacePerseveranceSpirituality Sunlight fell upon the wall; the wall received a borrowed splendor. Why set your heart on a piece of earth, O simple one? Seek out the source which shines forever.
EducationEnlightenmentJourneyKnowledgeTruth Ultimately, education in its real sense is the pursuit of truth. It is an endless journey through knowledge and enlightenment.
EnlightenmentExistencePurpose As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.
CuriosityEducationEnlightenmentLearningQuestioning There is always a place I can take someone's curiosity and land where they end up enlightened when we're done. That's my challenge as an educator. No one is dumb who is curious. The people who don't ask questions remain clueless throughout their lives.
EnlightenmentLetting GoPracticeSpiritualityStillness Religion and ritual can be vehicles for entering stillness. It says in Psalm 46:10, 'Be still, and know that I am God.' But they are still just vehicles. The Buddha called his teaching a raft: You don't need to carry it around with you after you've crossed the river.
ClarityEnlightenmentIgnoranceKnowledgeTruth Truth is by nature self-evident. As soon as you remove the cobwebs of ignorance that surround it, it shines clear.
AwarenessEnlightenmentPerceptionPotential The light which puts out our eyes is darkness to us. Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star.
EnlightenmentResponsibilitySelf-PerceptionTruthWisdom Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility.
EnlightenmentFreedomIndividual Sovereignty There will never be a really free and enlightened State until the State comes to recognize the individual as a higher and independent power, from which all its own power and authority are derived, and treats him accordingly.
CourageDepthEnlightenmentIntegrityTruth Not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, does the enlightened man dislike to wade into its waters.
EnlightenmentIntuitionKnowledgeMind There comes a time when the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge but can never prove how it got there.
EducationEnlightenmentHuman DevelopmentSkillsTeaching The purpose of education is to make good human beings with skill and expertise... Enlightened human beings can be created by teachers.
CommunityEnlightenmentGrowthHigher PurposeMeaning Really, the only thing that makes sense is to strive for greater collective enlightenment.
BiographyCultureDiscoveryEnlightenmentInnovation Not enough books focus on how a culture responds to radically new ideas or discovery. Especially in the biography genre, they tend to focus on all the sordid details in the life of the person who made the discovery. I find this path to be voyeuristic but not enlightening.
EnlightenmentKnowledgeSelf-ImprovementSoul And what, Socrates, is the food of the soul? Surely, I said, knowledge is the food of the soul.
EnlightenmentInner VisionIntrospectionTruth My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find out what that light was wherein it was bathed... And thus, with the flash of one hurried glance, it attained to the vision of That Which Is.
BeautyComfortCreativityEnlightenmentResponsibility When a man becomes a writer, I think he takes on a sacred obligation to produce beauty and enlightenment and comfort at top speed.
EnlightenmentGuidanceInner PeaceSpirituality O Holy Spirit, descend plentifully into my heart. Enlighten the dark corners of this neglected dwelling and scatter there Thy cheerful beams.
EnlightenmentIgnoranceIntellectual EvolutionKnowledgeProspects It is paradoxical, yet true, to say, that the more we know, the more ignorant we become in the absolute sense, for it is only through enlightenment that we become conscious of our limitations. Precisely one of the most gratifying results of intellectual evolution is the continuous opening up of new and greater prospects.