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Enlightenment Quotes

"Nature and nature's laws lay hid in night"

"To realize the unimportance of time is the gate to wisdom."

"The truth is not for all men but only for those who seek it"

"Maybe that's enlightenment enough: to know that there is no final resting place of the mind; no moment of smug clarity."

"We have to live our life as a Buddha fully. Each human being has a Buddha nature. Buddhist monks practice in order to be a fully awakened human being."

"What does mysticism really mean? It means the way to attain knowledge."

"To rise from error to truth is rare and beautiful."

"The owl of Minerva begins its flight only with the coming of the dusk."

"A mind unruffled by the vagaries of fortune, from sorrow freed, from defilements cleansed, from fear liberated — this is the greatest blessing."

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

"A book should be a ball of light in one's hand."

"It's not the answers that enlighten, but the questions."

"The only thing more expensive than education is ignorance"

"The mind once enlightened cannot again become dark"

"Wonder is the beginning of wisdom"

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