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Enlightenment Quotes
"Light was the first thing that came into existence, first in the order of creation."
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"When the sun of consciousness first shone upon me, behold a miracle! The stock of my young life which had perished, steeped in the waters of knowledge grew again, budded again, was sweet again with the blossoms of childhood. Down in the depths of my being, I cried, 'it is good to be alive!' I held out two trembling hands to life, and in vain silence would impose dumbness upon me henceforth! The world to which I awoke was still mysterious; but there was hope and love and God in it, and nothing else mattered. Is it not possible that our entrance into heaven may be like this experience of mine?"
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"The sun is intelligent because it never rises too early, and wise because it never sets too late."
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"When the outside intent (other than the intent of Pure Soul, Parbhaav) stops, he attains enlightened bliss of the Self (samadhi)."
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"The Knower of the Soul is considered Self Realized (The Enlightened one). The knower of all the eternal elements is known as Omniscient (sarvagna)."
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"Enlightenment is the key to empowerment."
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"Enlightenment is the transformation that brings out the highest human qualities. It is the process that removes the clouds of negativity and brings the colors of peace, compassion and kindness."
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"Elevate your mind and you elevate your world."
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"You're not to achieve anything, on the contrary you are to drop whatever you have accumulated over ages and its difficult mind you, not that its part of you, but YOU have owned this mental clutter unconsciously. The moment you unburden yourself, for the first time YOU ARE!, never before."
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"He who is fortunately enlightened [the Sufi]Knows that sophistry is from the devil and love from Adam."
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"Gnani (The Enlightened one) means without Ego."
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"Why is it that 'we' (the Gnani Purush, the enlightened one) do not have any obstruction (antray)? It is because 'we' are in a desire-free state (Nirichchhak dasha)."
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"Knowledge does not come to us by details, but in flashes of light from heaven."
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"Enlightenment is making friendship with the whole existence."
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"Life comes from light: if we are under God's shining light, life will be generated and the divine life will grow in us."
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"If God the Father and God the Son use light, knowledge, insight, understanding and wisdom to function on the earth, it means that is the greatest power in existence."
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"Once the lotus of your inner divinity gets full-blown and you reach the mental state where all the religious giants of human history experienced the all-encompassing sense of godliness, the exuberance of the human mind turns infinite. Awakening into that state makes all the perceptual limitations of the mind disappear, just like a bucket of muddy water turns crystal-clear once poured into the ocean."
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"When you live in light, you live under God's rulership."
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"We have come to love darkness in the church rather than finding God in creation."
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"If we really want to represent God in our day and time, we must embrace knowledge."
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"Perhaps my greatest wisdom is the knowledge that I do not know."
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"To awaken within the dream is our purpose now. When we are awake within the dream, the ego-created earth-drama comes to an end and a more benign and wondrous dream arises. This is the new earth."
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"If you experience bliss of the Self (samadhi) amidst complete problematic stage, then know that you have met a "Gnani Purush [the enlightened one]!"
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"Your mind shines brightest when you enlighten others; your heart, when you encourage others; your soul, when you elevate others; and your life, when you empower others."
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"We need enlightenment, not just individually but collectively, to save the planet. We need to awaken ourselves. We need to practice mindfulness if we want to have a future, if we want to save ourselves and the planet."
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"Those who are truly enlightened, those whose souls are illuminated by love, have been able to overcome all of the inhibitions and preconceptions of their era. They have been able to sing, to laugh, and to pray out loud; they have danced and shared what Saint Paul called 'the madness of saintliness'. They have been joyful - because those who love conquer the world and have no fear of loss. True love is an act of total surrender."
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"God created sages because He wanted to leave the light on in the universe."
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"The mind is the ultimate hallway to the world, the soul is the ultimate stairway to the universe."
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"Your spiritual goals can be as numerous as there are stars in the sky. And so can be your religions. But in all your vivid and diverse paths of practicing religion and spirituality, there is one very common and simple element that knows no bounds. That element is the eternal bliss that enables you to attain unimaginable feats of excellence. It is not tied to any scripture of yours, yet it is in every scripture of yours."
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"As long as you are ready to pay this price for living in the light (knowledge), the darkness (ignorance) becomes a servant to you."
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"But only he who, himself enlightened, is not afraid of shadows."
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"If you look to money for happiness, you will be disappointed; to power, you will be disillusioned; to honor, you will be dissatisfied; to others, you will be disenchanted; but if you look to God, you will be fulfilled."
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"Is it a small thing to quench the flames of hell with the holy tears of pity -- to unbind the martyr from the stake -- break all the chains -- put out the fires of civil war -- stay the sword of the fanatic, and tear the bloody hands of the Church from the white throat of Science? Is it a small thing to make men truly free -- to destroy the dogmas of ignorance, prejudice and power -- the poisoned fables of superstition, and drive from the beautiful face of the earth the fiend of fear?"
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"Enlightenment is a paradoxical phenomenon. You need to be commited to become enlightenment, and to do whatever is necessary to make it happen. But at the same time you can not force enlightenment to happen by sheer will. It is like the situation with happiness: you can not force happiness to happen, but you can create the right circumstances for happiness tohappen. You need to be willing to die, to let go of your limited sense of "I, to achieve enlightenment. I can feel a deepening thirst to die, to dissolve into the silence, in my heart and being."
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"An enlightened man had but one duty - to seek the way to himself, to reach inner certainty, to grope his way forward, no matter where it led."
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"The mountain of ignorance must be pulled down."
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"As long as you are ready to pay this price for living in the light (knowledge) the darkness (ignorance) becomes a servant to you."
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"This [worldly life] is a huge entanglement; every sub-atomic particle of it is an entanglement and it is impossible to break free from it. Which is why the Lord has said, 'If you encounter a Gnani Purush [the enlightened one], remain with Him'."
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"From our primary schools to secondary schools, to tertiary institutions, there must be a mass campaign to educate our people in the value of labour."
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"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."
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"We cannot achieve personal enlightenment " a clarification of our souls " until we cease deluding ourselves. We must accept that life includes witnessing and personally experiencing pain."
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"The Gnanis [The enlightened ones] have said that if one lives as if he is dead, death will never come to him."
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"To be blind momentarily when light hits your eyes is better than to be blind permanently when darkness hits your soul."
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"When you get wisdom, failure and discouragement will get behind you."
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"Where are you looking for samadhi (enlightened blissful state)? You just come into your own original Self-form of the Soul, final liberation and samadhi are the natural qualities of the Soul!"
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"Ignorance is darkness."
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"Any self-realized being has access to the dynamic genius which nature gives all beings."
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"Principles can actually grow and overwhelm the things you are afraid of."
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"We have to confront ignorance in our nation."
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