#enlightenment

"Enlightenment is light."

"In so many ways we are still in the dark ages, but there is light appearing over the horizon of choice and consciousness."

"Life is like a sandwich!Birth as one slice,and death as the other.What you put in-between the slices is up to you.Is your sandwich tasty or sour?Allan Rufus.org"

"A person must earn enlightenment, Eragon. It is not handed down to you by others, regardless of how revered they be."

"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."

"The best kind of happiness is a habit you're passionate about."

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

"Wisdom comes alone through suffering."

"Just remember this, my girl, when you look up in the sky you can see the stars and still not see the light."

"The closer you come to knowing that you alone create the world of your experience, the more vital it becomes for you to discover just who is doing the creating."

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

"Suffering just means you’re having a bad dream. Happiness means you’re having a good dream. Enlightenment means getting out of the dream altogether."

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

"What should I do—how should I act now, this very day . . . What she would resolve to do that day did not yet seem quite clear, but something that she could achieve stirred her as with an approaching murmur which would soon gather distinctness."

"What can oppose the decline of the west is not a resurrected culture but the utopia that is silently contained in the image of its decline."

"We owe a huge debt to Galileo for emancipating us all from the stupid belief in an Earth-centered or man-centered (let alone God-centered) system. He quite literally taught us our place and allowed us to go on to make extraordinary advances in knowledge."

"My spirit is healthy, yes. But I tell you, my flesh is healthy too. I am enlightened and free, but I am also lustful and carnal."

"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."

"To live is not to breathe but to act. It is to make use of our organs, our senses, our faculties, of all the parts of ourselves which give us the sentiment of our existence. The man who has lived the most is not he who has counted the most years but he who has most felt life."

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