#enlightenment

"What drains your spirit drains your body. What fuels your spirit fuels your body."

"There is creative reading as well as creative writing."

"Your own Self-Realization is the greatest service you can render the world."

"But people of the deepest understanding look within, distracted by nothing. Since a clear mind is the Buddha, they attain the understanding of a Buddha without using the mind."

"I used to think that once you really knew a thing, its truth would shine on forever. Now it's pretty obvious to me that more often than not the batteries fade, and sometimes what you knew even goes out with a bang when you try and call on it, just like a light bulb cracking off when you throw the switch."

"The Encyclopedia--the advance artillery of reason, the armada of philosophy, the siege engine of the enlightenment..."

"Enlightenment is man's release from his self-incurred tutelage. Tutelage is man's inability to make use of his understanding without direction from another. Self-incurred is this tutelage when its cause lies not in lack of reason but in lack of resolution and courage to use it without direction from another. Sapere aude! 'Have courage to use your own reason!'- that is the motto of enlightenment."

"Do not look for happiness outside yourself. The awakened seek happiness inside."

"In his face there came to be a brooding peace that is seen most often in the faces of the very sorrowful or the very wise. But still he wandered through the streets of the town, always silent and alone."

"How could they see anything but the shadows if they were never allowed to move their heads?"

"Last night I lost the world, and gained the universe."

"To Do Today, 1/17/081. Sit and think2. Reach enlightenment3. Feed the cats"

"Not thinking about anything is Zen. Once you know this, walking, sitting, or lying down, everything you do is Zen."

"Whenever you read a good book, somewhere in the world a door opens to allow in more light."

"With me, illusions are bound to be shattered. I am here to shatter all illusions. Yes, it will irritate you, it will annoy you - that's my way of functioning and working. I will sabotage you from your very roots! Unless you are totally destroyed as a mind, there is no hope for you."

"The road to enlightenment is long and difficult, and you should try not to forget snacks and magazines."

"The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp."

"He in whom the love of repose predominates will accept the first creed, the first philosophy, the first political party he meets — most likely his father's. He gets rest, commodity, and reputation; but he shuts the door of truth."

"Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel."

"Wisdom comes alone through suffering."