Enlightenment sayings

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

- Socrates99

◆ According to Vedanta, there are only two symptoms of enlightenment, just two indications that a transformation is taking place within you toward a higher consciousness. The first symptom is that you stop worrying. Things don't bother you anymore. You become light-hearted and full of joy. The second symptom is that you encounter more and more meaningful coincidences in your life, more and more synchronicities. And this accelerates to the point where you actually experience the miraculous. (quoted by Carol Lynn Pearson in Consider the Butterfly)

- Deepak Chopra99

◆ Art is unquestionably one of the purest and highest elements in human happiness. It trains the mind through the eye, and the eye through the mind. As the sun colors flowers, so does art color life.

- John Lubbock99

◆ One thing: you have to walk, and create the way by your walking; you will not find a ready-made path. It is not so cheap, to reach to the ultimate realization of truth. You will have to create the path by walking yourself; the path is not ready-made, lying there and waiting for you. It is just like the sky: the birds fly, but they don't leave any footprints. You cannot follow them; there are no footprints left behind.

- Osho99

◆ There is creative reading as well as creative writing.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson99

◆ 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.

- Osho99

◆ 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.

- Immanuel Kant99

◆ The true value of a human being can be found in the degree to which he has attained liberation from the self.

- Albert Einstein99

◆ ...the past gives you an identity and the future holds the promise of salvation, of fulfillment in whaterver form. Both are illusions.

- Eckhart Tolle99

◆ Enlightenment is ego's ultimate disappointment.

- Ch?gyam Trungpa99

◆ Live simply. Deepest joy is like a flower....beautiful in essence.

- Tony Samara99

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

- Anne Lamott99

◆ I want certain conversations to come equipped with antilock brakes, especially if I'm talking to a real airbag.

- Jarod Kintz99

◆ 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.

- Christopher Hitchens99

◆ Within each of us is a light, awake, encoded in the fibers of our existence. Divine ecstasy is the totality of this marvelous creation experienced in the hearts of humanity

- Tony Samara99