Top 58 Spiritual Ignorance Quotes
#2. Maya (deceit) means ignorance of one's own Self!
Dada Bhagwan
#3. You have this mounting aggressive ignorance with the rabbit's foot of their particular religion. You don't really have any kind of spiritual law, just a kind of a rabid mental illness. The songs are a little slice of life.
Joni Mitchell
#4. After you've seen behind the facade of a stage set you can't take the play seriously any more. You can't go backwards and regain your ignorance; you have to move forward.
Zeena Schreck
#5. Things do not give unhappiness, ignorance (of one's real Self) does.
Dada Bhagwan
#6. The Enemy has been here in the night of our natural ignorance, and sown the tares of spiritual errors.
Thomas Hobbes
#7. According to Plato, Socrates believed all knowledge came from a divine state, but humans had forgotten it. Most lived in a cave of ignorance, but one could become enlightened by climbing out of the darkness and understanding the divide between the spiritual and material planes.
Gwendolyn Womack
#8. Ignorance is an illusion; we seek understanding. Compassion paves the way towards understanding and understanding paves the way towards acceptance.
Alaric Hutchinson
#9. In the spiritual search doubt is beneficial, a closed mind is not. Doubt used wisely assists enlightenment; a closed mind assists ignorance.
Ian Gardner
#10. Once you understand the innate nature (relative self, prakruti) of the other person, you can remain in an attachment-free state with that person. It is Knowledge (Gnan) to understand the innate nature of a person, and once Knowledge arises, so will conduct.
Dada Bhagwan
#11. When you put faith in that which you know, it is called faith (shraddha). When you put faith in what you don't know; that is called ignorance-based faith [agnan- shraddha].
Dada Bhagwan
#12. The idea of fixing of healing is an important part of any genuine spiritual approach. Kabbalah is very much about this idea of fixing of things that have been damaged. From a Buddhist point of view, things have been damaged because ignorance has intoxicated the mind.
Richard Gere
#13. One enjoyed the mental pleasures through ignorance (of the Self), and that is cause of the worldly life. Only the bliss of the 'Knowledge' [of the Soul, one's True Self] is to be enjoyed.
Dada Bhagwan
#14. Those vibrations that we created have indeed fall upon us. Only those acts that were done in the ignorant (Self unawareness) state, that has given us reactions.
Dada Bhagwan
#15. To be free of insistence [free of forcing one's own opinion] is the path of Vitragta [attachment-free state, the enlightened one]. Quit insisting at all places. To even insist on the truth, God has considered it as ignorance. There is no insistence in 'Us' whatsoever!
Dada Bhagwan
#16. For the Christian, ignorance is not bliss; it is negligence and carelessness.
Pedro Okoro
#18. Oswald Chambers says, Intellectual darkness comes through ignorance; spiritual darkness comes because of something I do not intend to obey.
Stormie O'martian
#19. Contemporary movies just drive me crazy. The violence and the sentimentality and the spiritual materialism and Theism and the incredible indulgence in ignorance is so claustrophobic.
Anne Waldman
#20. It is through this physical body that the highest and greatest purpose of life is achieved. A person only calls it the physical body in ignorance. Once the knowledge has come ... he begins to look upon it as the sacred temple of God.
Hazrat Inayat Khan
#21. Many people die long before their departure date,
Through ignorance of living a life they never wanted to be apart of but are to scared to change.
Nikki Rowe
#22. Every action ('doing') causes bondage. 'Doing' is not needed for Liberation. For liberation, 'action' of Knowledge is required. Action of ignorance [of the self] is bondage. Action done with egoism is known as ignorant-action and the action done without egoism is known as knowledge-action.
Dada Bhagwan
#23. Plain intellectual thinking is the peak of ignorance because all that you will know is to play with a few aspects and make others look like fools.
Jaggi Vasudev
#24. To forget is to render the pages of history as entirely blank, and the lessons of history as never taught.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#25. Worldly life is not an impediment; your obstinacies and your ignorance of the self are only the impediments.
Dada Bhagwan
#26. The reason why Christians do not make use of their entitlement in Christ Jesus is ignorance, or as the Bible puts it beautifully, 'lack of knowledge'!
Pedro Okoro
#27. Ignorance is a dangerous and spiritual poison, which all men ought warily to shun.
Pope Gregory I
#28. In this world, it is a great Self-effort to deliberately remain ignorant despite knowing, right? I deliberately remain ignorant in spite of having the Knowledge.
Dada Bhagwan
#29. The Soul's doership has arisen due to ignorance. Because of this, the inner working components of antaskaran [mind, intellect, chitta and ego] have arisen, and so has the relative-self [prakruti].
Dada Bhagwan
#30. The spiritual quest is a journey without distance. You travel from where you are right now To where you have always been. From ignorance to recognition ...
Anthony De Mello
#31. Knowledge can only be limited. Ignorance is boundless. In recognizing our ignorance, we will touch that which is boundless.
Jaggi Vasudev
#32. As far as ignorance is concerned, not just Buddhism, every religion recognizes it as the source of suffering.
Dalai Lama
#33. It is the pain of ignorance which makes one into a seeker.
Jaggi Vasudev
#34. The worldly life has arisen through the ego. One is indeed free if the ego dissolves. What is the foundation on which the ego stands? It is the ignorance of the Self.
Dada Bhagwan
#35. Attachment-abhorrence is an 'effect' and ignorance (of the self) is the 'cause'!
Dada Bhagwan
#36. I was born in darkest ignorance. My spiritual master taught me the truth of the Universe
Aniruddha Bose
#37. In ignorance I am something; in understanding I am nothing, in love I am everything.
Rupert Spira
#38. When we get our spiritual house in order, we'll be dead. This goes on. You arrive at enough certainty to be able to make your way, but it is making it in darkness. Don't expect faith to clear things up for you. It is trust, not certainty.
Flannery O'Connor
#39. Do not desperately seek refuge in heaven and delve in blissful ignorance; discover the fires and infernos of hell that have sprung inside of you.
Forrest Curran
#40. We are too busy listening to our thoughts that we don't hear the wonderful sounds surrounding us ...
Alina Radoi
#41. In the ignorant state, there is a 'limit' for good qualities, it is known as the self-pride. Self-serving pride (swa-maan) is the limit of virtues in the realm of ignorance.
Dada Bhagwan
#42. Keen intelligence is two-edged, It may be used constructively or destructively like a knife, either to cut the boil of ignorance, or to decapitate one's self. Intelligence is rightly guided only after the mind has acknowledged the inescapability of spiritual law.
Sri Yukteswar Giri
#43. The Socratic dialogue was a spiritual exercise designed to produce a profound psychological change in the participants, and because its purpose was that each person should understand the depth of his ignorance, there was no way that anybody could win. Plato
Karen Armstrong
#44. Acceptance of ignorance (of reality) is the true knowledge path.
Dada Bhagwan
#45. Intent of complete surrender (devotion) is worship itself. Complete surrender with (full understanding and real) knowledge is a very high level of worship. Even the surrender done with relative knowledge (ignorance of one's own real self) can be called worship.
Dada Bhagwan
#46. Ignorance' (absence of Self-Knowledge) creates vibrations (causes) and 'Knowledge' (Self-Knowledge) stops these vibrations.
Dada Bhagwan
#47. In the spiritual realm, the opposite of ignorance is not knowledge, it's obedience.
Howard G. Hendricks
#48. Once the illusion (branti) goes away, one can see 'as it is', and that is why ignorance goes away. When ignorance goes, maya (deceit) goes. Once God's maya is gone, the solution is found.
Dada Bhagwan
#49. You see many stars in the sky at night, but not when the sun rises. Can you therefore say that there are no stars in the heavens during the day? Because you cannot find God in the days of your ignorance, say not that there is no God.
Ramakrishna
#50. You may be ignorant of all the books in the world, and I hope you are, of all the latest theories, but that is not ignorance.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
#51. Until ignorance, of one's own Self (the Soul), is removed, illusory attachment (moha) will not go away.
Dada Bhagwan
#52. The actions carried out with ignorance of the Self [agnan bhaav, ignorance intent] is all bondage. Every action done with the awareness of I am pure Soul [gnan bhaav, knowledge intent], will grant liberation.
Dada Bhagwan
#53. Ignorance is not bliss. Ignorance is brutal. The brutality of ignorance is such that it will make you dead while alive.
Jaggi Vasudev
#54. The point of the spiritual revolution is not to become a good Buddhist, but to become a wise and compassionate human being, to awaken from our life of complacency and ignorance and to be a buddha.
Noah Levine
#55. Abhorrence towards bitter circumstances and attachment towards sweet ones is the nature of agnan (ignorance of the self). Bitter and sweet will not exist if agnan (ignorance of the self) leaves.
Dada Bhagwan
#56. Believing that what you do not know cannot exist is the crown of ignorance.
Jaggi Vasudev
#57. Not knowing one's real Self is the greatest of maya (deceit; illusion). Once this ignorance is removed, the illusion departs.
Dada Bhagwan
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