enlightenment Quotes

Somehow, we have come to the erroneous belief that we are all but flesh, blood, and bones, and that's all. So we direct our values to material things.

If we are too friendly to nice, decent bishops, we run the risk of buying into the fiction that there's something virtuous about believing things because of faith rather than because of evidence. We run the risk of betraying scientific enlightenment.

The enlightenment is under threat. So is reason. So is truth. So is science, especially in the schools of America.

The Christ-symbol is of the greatest importance for psychology in so far as it is perhaps the most highly developed and differentiated symbol of the self, apart from the figure of the Buddha.

He who knows others is wise. He who knows himself is enlightened.

From wonder into wonder existence opens.

He who knows himself is enlightened.

The key to growth is the introduction of higher dimensions of consciousness into our awareness.

Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is Enlightenment.

It is paradoxical, yet true, to say, that the more we know, the more ignorant we become in the absolute sense, for it is only through enlightenment that we become conscious of our limitations. Precisely one of the most gratifying results of intellectual evolution is the continuous opening up of new and greater prospects.