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.
God is not anything human. God is a force, God is chaos, God is unknown. God is terror and enlightenment at the same time.
By any reasonable measure of achievement, the faith of the Enlightenment thinkers in science was justified.
The process of philosophic and scientific enlightenment has shaken the stability of beliefs held explicitly as articles of faith.
God not only loves the obedient - He enlightens them.
The words that enlighten the soul are more precious than jewels.
Radiate your lights of love to enlighten the whole world, like the sun.
I understood that the will could not be improved before the mind had been enlightened.
I have been enlightened. I have fallen into poetry and it has swallowed me up.
The enlightenment is under threat. So is reason. So is truth. So is science, especially in the schools of America.
This could never be a crime in any society which deems himself enlightened.
Enlightenment, or Nirvana, is nothing other than the state beyond all obstacles, in the same way that from the peak of a very high mountain one always sees the sun. Nirvana is not a paradise or some special place of happiness, but is in fact the cond...
We have been taught, both inside the classroom and outside of it, that there exists an entity called the West, and that one can think of this West as a society and civilization independent of and in opposition to other societies and civilizations. Ma...
When you are a young person, you are like a young creek, and you meet many rocks, many obstacles and difficulties on your way. You hurry to get past these obstacles and get to the ocean. But as the creek moves down through the fields, it becomes larg...
The more truthful I am with myself and others, the more my conscience is clear and tranquil. Thus, I can more thoroughly and unequivocally inhabit the present moment and accept everything that happens without fear, knowing that what goes around comes...
...new prejudices will serve as well as old ones to harness the great unthinking masses. For this enlightenment, however, nothing is required but freedom, and indeed the most harmless among all the things to which this term can properly be applied. I...
People who are not fully enlightened have no business becoming parents. This contradicts the conventionally accepted notion that people have an inherent "right" to have children. They do not. People who have a compulsion to traumatize a child, even i...
[first lines] Teacher: Earth that was could no longer sustain our numbers, we were so many. We found a new solar system, dozens of planets and hundreds of moons. Each one terraformed, a process taking decades, to support human life, to be new Earths....
To me, art's highest purpose is to entertain, to enlighten, to inspire, to evoke emotion and to change an audience in some way, big or small.
The Stone of Guilt in the River of the Mind, the block in the flow of intelligence. ~ Paramahamsa Nithyananda
Strange enlightenments are vouchsafed to those who seek the higher places.
