Henepola Gunaratana Quotes

It is no advantage to be near the light if the eyes are closed.

Ignorance once dispelled is difficult to reestablish.

Where ignorance is not bliss, get wise!

We are enslaved by anything we do not consciously see. We are freed by conscious perception.

To free a person from error is to give, and not to take away.

Freedom can occur only through education.

Where ignorance is our master, there is no possibility of real peace.

The fifth freedom is freedom from ignorance.

Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family.

Being enlightened is just being aware. It's just being aware of something that you weren't aware before.

And perhaps our awareness is the first step to our liberation.

Freedom begins where it ends ignorance.

The enemies of a people are those who keep them in ignorance.

Knowledge is freedom and ignorance is slavery

Knowledge always liberates.

We've tried ignorance for a thousand years. It's time we try education.

Sitting is the gateway of truth to total liberation.

Knowledge will forever govern ignorance.

There is only one calamity: ignorance. And there is only one solution: enlightenment.

Only by awakening can you know the true meaning of that word.

Enlightenment is a direct experience with reality.

Not creating delusions is enlightenment.

It is no good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge.

Of those beings who live in ignorance, shut up and confined, as it were, in an egg, I have first broken the eggshell of ignorance and alone in the universe obtained the most exalted, universal Buddhahood.