Inspirational Quotes
Words to motivate, inspire, and guide you.
StillnessSpiritualityPracticeEnlightenmentLetting Go Religion and ritual can be vehicles for entering stillness. It says in Psalm 46:10, 'Be still, and know that I am God.' But they are still just vehicles. The Buddha called his teaching a raft: You don't need to carry it around with you after you've crossed the river.
FreedomEnlightenmentIndividual Sovereignty There will never be a really free and enlightened State until the State comes to recognize the individual as a higher and independent power, from which all its own power and authority are derived, and treats him accordingly.
SoulKnowledgeEnlightenmentSelf-Improvement And what, Socrates, is the food of the soul? Surely, I said, knowledge is the food of the soul.
AwarenessPerceptionEnlightenmentPotential The light which puts out our eyes is darkness to us. Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star.
PurposeEnlightenmentExistence As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.
TruthDepthEnlightenmentIntegrityCourage Not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, does the enlightened man dislike to wade into its waters.
KnowledgeMindEnlightenmentIntuition There comes a time when the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge but can never prove how it got there.
IntrospectionTruthEnlightenmentInner Vision My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find out what that light was wherein it was bathed... And thus, with the flash of one hurried glance, it attained to the vision of That Which Is.
