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These ideas grew out of the Enlightenment; their roots are in Rousseau’s Discourse on Inequality, Hu...

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You British plundered half the world for your own profit. Let's not pass it off as the Age of Enligh...

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As in the days of the first Merovingian, who pledged allegiance to the cross because of a victorious...

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Peter SloterdijkDu mußt dein Leben ändern

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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Peter SloterdijkNot Saved: Essays After Heidegger

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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Philip K. DickDo Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

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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PlatoThe Allegory of the Cave

How could they see anything but the shadows if they were never allowed to move their heads?

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PlatoThe Allegory of the Cave

We think a wise person is someone who solves problems. Truth is, a wise person is someone who avoids...

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It is not the simple statement of facts that ushers in freedom; it is the constant repetition of the...

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Only 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...

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Your 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...

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This thing I am feeling, I’m almost certain, is the closest I’ll ever come to standing somewhere in ...

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Raquel CepedaBird of Paradise: How I Became Latina

Similitude 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...

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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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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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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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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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Robert M. PirsigZen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values

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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Robert M. PirsigZen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values

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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Stanislav GrofThe Holotropic Mind: The Three Levels of Human Consciousness and How They Shape Our Lives

In the most general terms, the Enlightenment goes back to Plato's belief that truth and beauty and g...

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Susan NeimanMoral Clarity: A Guide for Grown-up Idealists

Feel nothing, know nothing, do nothing, have nothing, give up all to God, and say utterly, 'Thy will...

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Even 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...

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For 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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Thomas MooreCare of the Soul: Guide for Cultivating Depth and Sacredness in Everyday Life

A person has all sorts of lags built into him, Kesey is saying. One, the most basic, is the sensory ...

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Tom WolfeThe Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test

What you know can never be the beyond. Whatever you experience is not the beyond. If there is any be...

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U. G. KrishnamurtiThe Mystique of Enlightenment: The Radical Ideas of U.G. Krishnamurti

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...

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..we have become wealthy, and wealth is the prelude to art. In every country where centuries of phys...

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Will DurantThe Story of Philosophy: The Lives and Opinions of the World's Greatest Philosophers

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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William BlakeThe Marriage of Heaven and Hell

By reflecting a little on this subject I am almost convinced that those numberless small Circuses we...

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When one has attained a state of mind from which the evil passions of the present world have been so...

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The sage is still not because he takes stillness to be good and therefore is still. The ten thousand...

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ZhuangziThe Complete Works of Chuang Tzu

In the midst of darkness, he alone sees the dawn; in the midst of the soundless, he alone hears harm...

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ZhuangziThe Complete Works of Chuang Tzu

When a man does not dwell in self, then things will of themselves reveal their forms to him. His mov...

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ZhuangziThe Complete Works of Chuang Tzu

The man who has forgotten self may be said to have entered Heaven.

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ZhuangziThe Complete Works of Chuang Tzu

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...

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ZhuangziThe Complete Works of Chuang Tzu

Actual freedom has not increased in proportion to man's awareness of it.

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Albert CamusThe Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt

The true value of a human being can be found in the degree to which he has attained liberation from ...

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She shook her head. "It sounds suspiciously like Nirvana." "What's wrong with that?" "Pure Spirit, o...

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Know 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 ...

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Enlightenment 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.

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Amit RayMeditation: Insights and Inspirations

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

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Amit RayMeditation: Insights and Inspirations

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.

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Amit RayPeace Bliss Beauty and Truth: Living with Positivity

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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Anne LamottTraveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith

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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