So the single most vital step on your journey toward enlightenment is this: learn to disidentify from your mind. Every time you… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
People in the West sometimes have these marvelous visions of India and Tibet. They assume that there are all these sadhus walking… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Observe how women defeat each other; whether it's simply for a promotion, for a husband, for survival, so she won't be beaten… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Many of us have a tendency to deny any negative feelings. We judge them as "bad" or "unenlightened" when, in fact, they… — Shakti Gawain Copy Share Image
“If there is a dark and hostile power, laying its treacherous toils within us, by which it holds us fast and draws… — E.T.A. Hoffmann Copy Share Image
“It is because we feel that we are separate from nature that we also feel it is okay to manipulate it, pollute… — Joseph P. Kauffman Copy Share Image
They just teach by their presence. They don't really have a message for humanity. It's irrelevant at that point. They're just a… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
In the early nineteenth century, with Enlightenment optimism soured by years of war and revolution, critics were skeptical of America's naive faith… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
It is not the simple statement of facts that ushers in freedom; it is the constant repetition of them that has this… — Quentin Crisp Copy Share Image
“Maybe it’s something which can’t be defined,” Enso Roshi says. “Maybe it’s a question, to be lived.” — T. Scott McLeod Copy Share Image
“Permission slips” are the tools, practices, identities, and symbols that give us the sense that we are allowed to grow, heal, or… — Donna Goddard Copy Share Image
“Our senses inform us of the colour, weight, and consistence of bread; but neither sense nor reason can ever inform us of… — David Hume Copy Share Image
I don't even think much about politicians. I think about the people in the audience who applaud the politicians. They are your… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Obscurity, indeed, is painful to the mind as well as to the eye; but to bring light from obscurity, by whatever labour,… — David Hume Copy Share Image
“THE CONSCIOUSNESS IS THE ATMAN, THE SOUL. The first meaning is: in this world, only consciousness is yours. The word atman means:… — Osho Copy Share Image
We have to leave everything we have been, a perceiver, "I" as an individual. That is enlightenment. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“When you are always ready for the worst, then the worst is likely to show up” — Gary Hopkins Copy Share Image
“Allowing attachments to people/things create a compulsive addiction in us to be controlling. This “control” (fueled by fear of loss) fools us… — Gary Hopkins Copy Share Image
“Divinity never forces itself upon you. If you are willing, it is always there for you. If you are not willing, it… — Sadhguruuru Copy Share Image
Enlightenment is a lot like dying. You might wonder why there aren't more enlightened people. It is because they are afraid to… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Enlightenment is the "quiet acceptance of what is". I believe the truly enlightened beings are those who refuse to allow themselves to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
