Robert Hunter Quotes

Not creating delusions is enlightenment.

An age is called Dark not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it.

You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.

I see, I know, I believe, I am undeceived.

Every closed eye is not sleeping, and every open eye is not seeing.

I am not here only so that the blind might see, but to teach those who thought they could see that they are blind

In opening them, he discovered that he had eyes.

Our eyes are holden that we cannot see things that stare us in the face, until the hour arrives when the mind is ripened; then we behold them, and the time when we saw them not is like a dream.

Perhaps only in a world of the blind will things be what they truly are.

What, concretely, is Enlightenment ?" "Seeing Reality as it is," said the Master. "Doesn't everyone see Reality as it is?" "Oh, no! Most people see it as they think it is." "What's the difference?" "The difference between thinking you are drowning in a stormy sea and knowing you cannot drown because there isn't any water in sight for miles around.

There are poisons that blind you, and poisons that open your eyes.

You can be standing right in front of the truth and not necessarily see it, and people only get it when they're ready to get it.

I think I am seeing more clearly now than ever.

Once I opened my eyes to the realities of life, I couldn't close them.

We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality.

Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

The hardest thing to see is what is in front of your eyes.

Seeing the light is a choice, not seeing the light is no choice.

What difference is there, do you think, between those in Plato's cave who can only marvel at the shadows and images of various objects, provided they are content and don't know what they miss, and the philosopher who has emerged from the cave and sees the real things?

The dreamer can know no truth, not even about his dream, except by awaking out of it.

The beginning of all wisdom is recognition of facts

Once I started to look i finally began to see.

Nothing is so obvious that it's obvious.

You can't force someone to see the truth, just like you can't force a blind man to see.

Remember: whatsoever I am saying is not the thing that I want to say to you. Whatsoever I am saying has nothing to do with truth, because truth cannot be said. Whatsoever I am saying is nothing but a hammering. If you become awake, you will see the truth.