Enlightenment:

Enlightenment is not so much knowing as unknowing; it is not so much learning as unlearning.…It is more surrendering than concluding, more trusting than fixing and all gratuitous grace, for which you can only give thanks.

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To endure temporal agonies for the sake of the truth was not a heavy burden for such men as John; rather his was easily borne and even desirable, for he knew eternal joy would be his reward.

- Saint Bede the Venerable (on the death of St. John the Baptist)