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No one who has
lived even for a fleeting moment for something other than
life in its conventional sense and has experienced the
exaltation that this feeling produces can then renounce his
new freedom so easily.
-- Andre Breton
1989-1966, French Surrealist
If I could
define enlightenment briefly I would say it is ''the quiet
acceptance of what is.''
-- Wayne Dyer
1940-, American
Psychotherapist, Author, Lecturer
I don't know
Who -- or what -- put the question, I don't know when it was
put. I don't even remember answering. But at some moment I
did answer Yes to Someone --or Something --and from that
hour I was certain that existence is meaningful and that,
therefore, my life, in self-surrender, had a goal.
-- Dag Hammarskjold
1905-1961, Swedish Statesman,
Secretary-general of U.N.
In this world,
which is so plainly the antechamber of another, there are no
happy men. The true division of humanity is between those
who live in light and those who live in darkness. Our aim
must be to diminish the number of the latter and increase
the number of the former. That is why we demand education
and knowledge.
-- Victor Hugo
1802-1885, French Poet,
Dramatist, Novelist
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The real
meaning of enlightenment is to gaze with undimmed eyes on
all darkness.
-- Nikos Kazantzakis
1883-1957, Greek Writer
The moment of
truth, the sudden emergence of a new insight, is an act of
intuition. Such intuitions give the appearance of miraculous
flushes, or short-circuits of reasoning. In fact they may be
likened to an immersed chain, of which only the beginning
and the end are visible above the surface of consciousness.
The diver vanishes at one end of the chain and comes up at
the other end, guided by invisible links.
-- Arthur Koestler
1905-1983, Hungarian Born
British Writer
Enlightenment
must come little by little-otherwise it would overwhelm.
-- Idries Shah
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.
-- Henry David Thoreau
1817-1862, American Essayist,
Poet, Naturalist
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