#enlightenment

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

"Always try and be a better person than you were yesterday, cause we aren't guaranteed tomorrow."

"It is the task of the enlightened not only to ascend to learning and to see the good but to be willing to descend again to those prisoners and to share their troubles and their honors, whether they are worth having or not. And this they must do, even with the prospect of death."

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

"Life is like a game of chess.To win you have to make a move.Knowing which move to make comes with IN-SIGHTand knowledge, and by learning the lessons that areacculated along the way.We become each and every piece within the game called life!"

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

"Not till your thoughts cease all their branching here and there, not till you abandon all thoughts of seeking for something, not till your mind is motionless as wood or stone, will you be on the right road to the Gate."

"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."

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

"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."