“Enlightenment is man’s release from his self-incurred tutelage. Tutelage is man’s inability to make use of his understanding without direction from another. Self-incurred is this tutelage when its cause lies not in lack of reason but in lack of resolution and courage to use it without direction from another. Sapere aude! ‘Have courage to use […]
Inspiring Quotes and Poems
Quote: Ken Kesey On Enlightenment
“It isn’t by getting out of the world that we become enlightened, but by getting into the world…by getting so tuned in that we can ride the waves of our existence and never get tossed because we become the waves.” ― Ken Kesey
Poetry: Suzy Kassem – Coming Forth Into The Light (On transformation)
COMING FORTH INTO THE LIGHT I was born the day I thought: What is? What was? And What if? I was transformed the day My ego shattered, And all the superficial, material Things that mattered To me before, Suddenly ceased To matter. I really came into being The day I no longer cared about What […]
Quotes: Gina Charles On Expansion Of Consciousness
“The degree to which your Consciousness expands, is the degree to which you understand yourself and the universe.” ― Gina Charles
Quotes: Alejandro Jodorowsky on Awakening
“Awakening is not a thing. It is not a goal, not a concept. It is not something to be attained. It is a metamorphosis. If the caterpillar thinks about the butterfly it is to become, saying ‘And then I shall have wings and antennae,’ there will never be a butterfly. The caterpillar must accept its […]
Quote: Hermann Hesse on Phenomena
“I called the world of phenomena an illusion, I called my eyes and my tongue and accident, valueless phenomena. No, that is all over; I have awakened, I have really awakened and have just been born today.” ― Hermann Hesse,
Quote: Thoreau: I went to the woods..
“I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.” – Henry David Thoreau
Quote: The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are.
“The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are.” ― C.G. Jung