Enlightenment Ideals Quotes

“Enlightenment is making friendship with the whole existence.”
― Amit Ray, Enlightenment Step by Step

“Enlightenment is blossoming the thousand petaled lotus flower on the top of the head.”
― Amit Ray, Enlightenment Step by Step

“Enlightenment is the complete flowering of body, mind and the soul.”
― Amit Ray, Enlightenment Step by Step

“There are twenty one mystical dimensions of consciousness. Enlightenment is abiding in the highest three dimensions of consciousness.”
― Amit Ray, Enlightenment Step by Step

“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.”
― Amit Ray, Enlightenment Step by Step

“Philosophy's greatest task is to enlarge our sense of possibility.”
― Susan Neiman

“Enlightenment is the ultimate nourishment for body, mind, and soul. It is the ultimate freedom and ecstasy of life.”
― Amit Ray, Meditation: Insights and Inspirations

“Enlightenment is tuning our consciousness to music of the universe.”
― Amit Ray, Enlightenment Step by Step

“Enlightenment is something that you've been resisting to happen. It’s not something you have to struggle to make happen. The key is not to get in the way! Just allow it occur.”
― Amit Ray, Enlightenment Step by Step

“Education provide enlightenment for one's life.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“We are all equally capable of spiritual awakening. It may not seem that way, at times. Some of us are so caught up in the drama of our day-to-day existence that we have lost track of who we really are. But eventually, all of us will make the discovery of our true nature.”
― Victor Shamas, The Way of Play: Reclaiming Divine Fun & Celebration

“To realize the Enlightenment ideals of formal equality, the rule of law, freedom of commerce, and religious toleration, Voltaire and many of the other philosophes looked to absolutist monarchs, whose policies they hoped to influence. The support of the philosophes for the expansion of the monarch's sovereign power was tactical. It arose not out of a principled belief in the throne, but out of the recognition that only a strong monarchy had the power to override the resistance to enlightened legislation by the privileged churches, estates, and corporations that made up continental European society. (p. 45)”
― Jerry Z. Muller, The Mind and the Market: Capitalism in Western Thought

“Albeit nurtured in democracy,
And liking best that state republican
Where every man is Kinglike and no man
Is crowned above his fellows, yet I see,
Spite of this modern fret for Liberty,
Better the rule of One, whom all obey,
Than to let clamorous demagogues betray
Our freedom with the kiss of anarchy.
Wherefore I love them not whose hands profane
Plant the red flag upon the piled-up street
For no right cause, beneath whose ignorant reign
Arts, Culture, Reverence, Honor, all things fade,
Save Treason and the dagger of her trade,
Or Murder with his silent bloody fee.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Take all men as your brothers; all women as your sisters; and all children as your sons and daughters.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

“An enlightened person knows what idea is worthy of living and dying for.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“Dare to learn.
Dare to relearn.
Dare to outlearn.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“Shine your light at all times; you never know who you are leading out of the dark.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo