Enlightenment Quotes

"If you don't have any shadows, you're not in the light" "There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance" "The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth" "One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious" "Diamonds are to be found only in the darkness of the earth, and truth in the darkness of the mind" "To love beauty is to see light" "Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition" "The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free" "A book should be a ball of light in one's hand." "Ignorance is the parent of fear." "The more enlightened our houses are, the more their walls ooze ghosts" "The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty." "Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives." "To live without philosophizing is in truth the same as keeping the eyes closed without attempting to open them" "He who opens a school door, closes a prison" "Whoever has heart’s doors wide open, could see the sun itself in every atom." "Let go of your mind and then be mindful. Close your ears and listen." "The greatest gift is to give people your enlightenment, to share it. It has to be the greatest." "Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life." "Just as the great ocean has one taste, the taste of salt, so also this teaching and discipline has one taste, the taste of liberation."