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Enlightenment is liberation,
the
end of sorrow,
the beginning
of acceptance,
ceasing to be what the self
ignorantly believed itself to be
and being
what it truly is.
The Nature of
Divine Knowledge
"The question
of divine knowledge is so deep that it
is really known only to those who have it.
A child has no real knowledge of the attainments
of an adult. An ordinary adult cannot understand the attainments of a learned
man. In the same way, an educated man cannot yet understand the
experiences of enlightened saints or Sufis." -
el-Ghazali
"The _enlightened man_
is man in his maturity, in his perfection; who is
capable of advancing his own felicity,
because he has learned to examine, to think for himself, and not to take
that for truth upon the authority of others, which
experience has taught him a
critical disquisition will
frequently prove erroneous." - Paul-Henri Thiry, Baron
d'Holbach
To become
aware.
To awaken to reality.
Act of enlightening, or the
state of being enlightened or instructed.
Education that results in
understanding and the
spread of knowledge.
A blessed state in
which the individual transcends
desire and suffering and attains
Nirvana.
A philosophical movement of the 18th century that
emphasized the use of reason to scrutinize previously
accepted doctrines and traditions and that
brought about many humanitarian reforms.
adviceBetween a rock and a hard place
a rare bird walked on tiptoe. Good thing it wasn't a snake it would have bit
you. Where there's life, there's hope. Even a child can see to have one foot in
the grave is to call a spade a spade. One step at a time many miles ahead a
living corpse walked the tightrope. Think before you start as what's done
cannot be undone. Up to his eyeballs in crocodile tears he left no stone
unturned. While many hands make light work we cannot all do everything. At a
point in time we were both in the same boat. Golden handcuffs cut to the quick.
Time reveals all things. In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.
Women: can't live with 'em, can't live without 'em. From heaven to earth a fair
wind nowhere near the mark completed the circle. While we weigh anchor dangle
the bait. No sooner said than done. Out of tune, up to both ears, lead by the
nose the dog was worthy of his dinner. Hatched from the same egg though in a
mirror a necessary evil squeezed blood out of a stone. There's many a slip
'twixt cup and lip. God helps those who help themselves while the grass is
greener over the fence. The bowels of the earth can't teach an old dog new
tricks. Haste makes waste while time heals all wounds. To look a gift horse in
the mouth is to die laughing like father, like son. To swallow the hook while
grinding one's teeth is to have an iron in the fire. He blows his own trumpet
to break the ice before he is shown one's heels. The cart before the horse is
not worth a snap of the fingers. Sleep on it when have nailed it ship-shape.
Cutting against the grain one good turn deserves another as by losses and
disappointment young men acquire knowledge. To lead one by the nose, to shoot
beyond the mark makes one as far from the right, as the east is from the west.
He that meddleth with strife that doth not belong to him, is like one that
taketh a mad dog by the ear. Fly from that man, he has hay on his horns. When
in Rome do as the Romans do as walls have ears. To add fuel to the fire is
irritating instead of appeasing the enraged passions. Business is not likely to
go on well which is managed by strangers as when the cat is away, the mice will
play. Old young and old long if you wish to enjoy a long and healthy old age.
Fools are wise, or may be so reputed, when they are silent as flies do not
enter the mouth that is shut. Those who abound in knowledge are usually most
deficient in money but he who owes nothing is rich. A companion for all hours
or seasons is the thief who makes the rich man to tremble but excites no alarm
in the breast of the beggar as he has nothing to lose. The wise man passeth by
an injury, anger resteth in the bosom of a fool. Charity begins at home. Out of
harm's way, beyond bow-shot or the reach of darts, out of debt, out of danger.
There is a snake in the grass, take care how you tread as you have opened a
door to a thousand evils. Even the foolish sayings of the rich, pass in the
world as oracles but by the constant trickling of water, the solid stone
becomes excavated. Poor as a church mouse he is foolish and mad enough, who
empties his own purse to fill that of another. Sowing your grain among stones,
writing on water, or building on sand is like washing adobe bricks, the more
you scour them, the more muddy they become. Strike, therefore, while the iron
is hot as you are preaching to the deaf. A horse-shoe nailed on the threshold
of the door preserves the house from the effects of witchcraft while among
sailors a horse-shoe nailed to the mast preserves the vessel from evil
influence. Arguing against what is self-evident is the same as denying that the
sun shines at midday while men of over communicative dispositions, may divulge
to their adversaries what may be turned to their disadvantage. A prophet is not
without honor save in his own country as truth begets hatred, familiarity
contempt, and success envy. Evil dispositions in children are to be corrected
before they become habits. Think before you act, but having well considered,
and formed your plan, go on resolutely to the end. To design well, and to
persevere with vigor in the path we have drawn for ourselves, is the almost
certain way to attain our object. Posterity will give to every one the portion
of commendation to which he was entitled by his merit. How much better would it
be to correct an error in ourselves, than to find an hundred in our neighbors.
The storm passes over the shrub, but tears up the oak by its roots. Among
friends all things should be in common. Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or
the leopard his spots; is the Pope Catholic and does a bear shit in the woods.
Affecting to give information to persons on
subjects they are better acquainted with than ourselves, is like teaching birds
to fly, or fishes to swim.
Assist those who are willing to receive
instruction, and aid those who endeavor, but have not strength, to bear the
load that is imposed on them.
You have explained that difficult
passage, and rendered clear and luminous, what was before obscure and
difficult.
There are those who by a multiplicity
of words, endeavor to obscure the truth, and to induce those they converse with
to entertain opinions very different to what they would have formed, if the
story had been told in a plain and simple manner. - adapted from Adagia
Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus
See
Jesus
See
Rene Descartes
See
Charles Darwin
See
Eros
See Myopia
See Original Sin
See
A False Reality
See Mythos vs Logos
See The Evil of Banality
See
Satisfaction of the Flesh
See
Separation from Nature
See
The Subversion of American Democracy
See
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