#enlightenment-quotes

Be humble as you learn, confident as you teach, and modest when you have mastered both.

Helping yourself is common sense, helping others is virtue, helping yourself and others is enlightenment.

The universe offers you three things that money cannot buy: joy, love, and life.

A book is a small library you can fit into your pocket.

Enlightenment is not about attaining a ultimate level of intelligence or intellect. It is regained by shedding all the ideas, illusion and binds thrust on you and that you then so readily accrue.

The first professor you meet in life is your mother; the second is hardship, and the last is death.

Understanding what it means to die, to sever oneself of the foolish hope for immortality, is what allows human beings the capability to appreciate simple pleasures and endure whatever hardships living a full life requires. Eternity is beautiful whereas time is unredeemable and problematic. Our faith, our hopes, and our love exist only in points of time. We discover eternity by avoiding the snares of prejudice and mental delusion, using the memory of whole civilizations to understand the past, and employing human consciousness to transcend fluctuations in time.

By lighting another’s candle you brighten your own.