Enlightenment Quotes
These ideas grew out of the Enlightenment; their roots are in Rousseau’s Discourse on Inequality, Hu...
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Via the mediation of the Enlightenment, this movement had changed from a hobby among a tiny literate...
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If Enlightenment in a technical sense is the programmatic word for progress in the awareness of expl...
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Hence there is no free admission to the process of enlightenment - it is always paid at a psycho-tra...
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The Enlightenment, finally, invented progressive 'history' as an inner-worldly purgatory in order to...
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I lifted you from the tomb world just now and I will continue to lift you until you lose interest an...
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I did not tell Fat this, but technically he had become a Buddha. It did not seem to me like a good i...
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It is better to enlighten men’s minds than to teach them to be obstinate in their prejudices.

It is the task of the enlightened not only to ascend to learning and to see the good but to be willi...
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How could they see anything but the shadows if they were never allowed to move their heads?

We think a wise person is someone who solves problems. Truth is, a wise person is someone who avoids...
Show MoreIt is not the simple statement of facts that ushers in freedom; it is the constant repetition of the...
Show MoreOnly he whose bright lyrehas sounded in shadowsmay, looking onward, restorehis infinite praise. Only...
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There is creative reading as well as creative writing.
He in whom the love of repose predominates will accept the first creed, the first philosophy, the fi...
Show MoreYour own Self-Realization is the greatest service you can render the world.
The things that come to us easily, our propensities, are carried on a deep subconscious level into o...
Show MoreThis thing I am feeling, I’m almost certain, is the closest I’ll ever come to standing somewhere in ...
Show MoreSimilitude of the heart is like that of a telephone operator between man and God.

God’s love supersedes all religions and it is the core of all religions.

If we are too friendly to nice, decent bishops, we run the risk of buying into the fiction that ther...
Show MoreWe could express this power in the following way: Most of the time we live in an interior world of d...
Show MoreWe could express this power in the following way: Most of the time we live in an interior world of d...
Show MoreWe could express this power in the following way: Most of the time we live in an interior world of d...
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We could express this power in the following way: Most of the time we live in an interior world of d...
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What is in mind is a sort of Chautauqua...that’s the only name I can think of for it...like the trav...
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I want to talk about another kind of high country now in the world of thought, which in some ways, f...
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Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.
He suddenly understood the message of so many spiritual teachers that the only revolution that can w...
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In the most general terms, the Enlightenment goes back to Plato's belief that truth and beauty and g...
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Feel nothing, know nothing, do nothing, have nothing, give up all to God, and say utterly, 'Thy will...
Show MoreEven more than the time when she gave birth, a mother feels her greatest joy when she hears others r...
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But I wish to be enlightened.''Let me caution you against it.''Is enlightenment on the subject, then...
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The sinister, the terrible never deceive: the state in which they leave us is always one of enlighte...
Show MoreFor a brief moment I felt I was the older, the more mature."A gift of life," I responded, "if not to...
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In the end, no one can seek God unless he has already begun to find him.
Love releases us into the realm of divine imagination, where the soul is expanded and reminded of it...
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A person has all sorts of lags built into him, Kesey is saying. One, the most basic, is the sensory ...
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What you know can never be the beyond. Whatever you experience is not the beyond. If there is any be...
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Intellectual and moral growth is no less indispensable than material amelioration...If three is anyt...
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The true division of humanity is this: the luminous and the dark.To diminish the number of the dark,...
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The central ideas of Christianity — an angry God and vicarious atonement — are contrary to every fac...
Show More..we have become wealthy, and wealth is the prelude to art. In every country where centuries of phys...
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Enlightenment means taking full responsibility for your life.
The ancient tradition that the world will be consumed in fire at the end of six thousand years is tr...
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By reflecting a little on this subject I am almost convinced that those numberless small Circuses we...
Show MoreWhen one has attained a state of mind from which the evil passions of the present world have been so...
Show MoreThe sage is still not because he takes stillness to be good and therefore is still. The ten thousand...
Show MoreIn the midst of darkness, he alone sees the dawn; in the midst of the soundless, he alone hears harm...
Show MoreWhen a man does not dwell in self, then things will of themselves reveal their forms to him. His mov...
Show MoreThe man who has forgotten self may be said to have entered Heaven.
A man like this will not go where he has no will to go, will not do what he has no mind to do. Thoug...
Show MoreWisdom comes alone through suffering.
Actual freedom has not increased in proportion to man's awareness of it.

The true value of a human being can be found in the degree to which he has attained liberation from ...
Show MoreShe shook her head. "It sounds suspiciously like Nirvana." "What's wrong with that?" "Pure Spirit, o...
Show MoreKnow then thyself, presume not God to scan,The proper study of mankind is Man.Placed on this isthmus...
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Poetic justice, with her lifted scale,Where, in nice balance, truth with gold she weighs,And solid p...
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While pensive poets painful vigils keep,Sleepless themselves, to give their readers sleep.

Enlightenment is coming out from the fear mode, victim mode and guilt mode of living to the mode of ...
Show MoreEnlightenment gives profound joy of the heart and a great love for the fellow beings.

Remember your connection with the cosmos. Remember your connection with the infinity and that rememb...
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Enlightenment is making friendship with the whole existence.

There is a rose in every heart. Enlightenment is recognizing that rose.

Enlightenment is living in the light of cosmic collaboration.

Enlightenment is something that you've been resisting to happen. It’s not something you have to stru...
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There are twenty one mystical dimensions of consciousness. Enlightenment is abiding in the highest t...
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Enlightenment is the transforming process that makes one kind, happy, and compassionate to the world...
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Everyone has the fire, but the champions know when to ignite the spark.

At some magical instant you realize a deep Harmony with the universe. Enlightenment is that harmony.

Enlightenment is the complete flowering of body, mind and the soul.

Enlightenment is the moment when you are most alive and most compassionate.

Suddenly you realize that you are the mother of the Universe, eager to protect, transform and care e...
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Collaboration has no hierarchy. The Sun collaborates with soil to bring flowers on the earth.

Enlightenment is blossoming the thousand petaled lotus flower on the top of the head.

Be the ocean let the river come to you.

Raise you awareness and share your uniqueness to the world.

Witnessing is the alchemy of enlightenment. It can transform mud into gold.

Enlightenment is making every cell, gene and DNA as the radiator of peace and harmony.

Witnessing is not flowing with the current of the river but observing the flow from the bank of the ...
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There is a music of the universes in every heart.

Enlightenment is the transformation that brings out the highest human qualities. It is the process t...
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Enlightenment is tuning our consciousness to music of the universe.

And suddenly you realize: you are in every dot of the universe vanishing and arising.

Enlightenment comes when you understand the language of heart - the language of tree, birds and the ...
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Your greatest awakening comes, when you are aware about your infinite nature.

You are never alone. You are eternally connected with everyone.

Enlightenment is the ultimate nourishment for body, mind, and soul. It is the ultimate freedom and e...
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One cannot transcend the body or mind just by repeating the mantra "I am not the body and I am not t...
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Om is not just a sound or vibration. It is not just a symbol. It is the entire cosmos, whatever we c...
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Renunciation is the art of removing the barriers between one’s self and others.

Deep down there is a rose in every heart.

Cultivate blessing. Bless yourself. Bless the whole world. Let it be full with love, peace, joy and ...
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Be the radiator of peace. Go to the center of your inner being. Radiate peace in every direction.

I say, "it seemed to me," for from the depths of my past childhood, there now awoke in me the glimme...
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The road to enlightenment is long and difficult, and you should try not to forget snacks and magazin...
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Enlightenment is: absolute cooperation with the inevitable.
I'm an old-fashioned guy. I believe in the Enlightenment, and reason, and logic, and you know, facts...
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