Enlightenment Quotes

“Reason is the only torch that can guide our steps.”

“The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.”

“The Mind is the great Slayer of the Real. Let the Disciple slay the Slayer.”

“The mind is the Buddha, and the Buddha is the mind.”

“Art is not a religion. It is a path of enlightenment.”

“Not creating delusions is enlightenment.”

“Enlightenment is intimacy with all things.”

“Practice and enlightenment are one.”

“The gladsome light of jurisprudence.”

“To find a Buddha, you have to see your nature.”

“Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.”

“Education is the movement from darkness to light.”

“Postmodernism is the contemporary name for the crisis of the Enlightenment project.”

“To study the self is to forget the self. To forget the self is to be enlightened by all things.”

“The public use of reason is the source of all authority.”

“The progress of human enlightenment can go no further than in picturing people not as vicious, but as mistaken.”

“Enlightenment must come little by little - otherwise it would overwhelm.”

“An enlightened man had but one duty - to seek the way to himself.”

“One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.”

“Your own self-realization is the greatest service you can render the world.”