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enlightenment

«Enlightenment is not imagining figures of light but making the darkness conscious.»
«Do not think you will necessarily be aware of your own enlightenment.»
Author: Dogen | Keywords: enlightenment, of your own
«Before enlightenment; chop wood, carry water. After enlightenment; chop wood, carry water.»
«After enlightenment, the laundry.»
«Enlightenment will be now the beginning, not the end. Beginning of a non-ending process in all dimensions of richness. »
«Every effort for progress, for enlightenment, for science, for religious, political, and economic liberty, emanates from the minority, and not from the mass»
«Disease an never be conquered, can never be quelled by emotion's willful screaming or faith's symbolic prayer. It can only be conquered by the energy of humanity and the cunning in the mind of man. In the patience of a Curie, in the enlightenment of a Faraday, a Rutherford, a Pasteur, a Nightingale, and all other apostles of light and cleanliness, rather than of a woebegone godliness, we shall find final deliverance from plague, pestilence, and famine.»
«Because not even the least dharma is there found or got at. Therefore is it called `utmost, right and perfect enlightenment'. Self-identical is that dharma and nothing is therein at variance. Therefore is it called `utmost, right and perfect enlighten»
«Actually we are a vulgar, pushing mob whose passions are easily mobilized by demagogues, newspaper men, religious quacks, agitators and such like. To call this a society of free peoples is blasphemous. What have we to offer the world besides the superabundant loot which we recklessly plunder from the earth under the maniacal delusion that this insane activity represents progress and enlightenment?»
«If I could define enlightenment briefly I would say it is ''the quiet acceptance of what is.''»

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