“I cast myself across the land in search of enlightenment, and here is what I found: that matter and energy are one… — Laurence Gonzales Copy Share Image
“The Enlightenment may have indeed outlived its usefulness, but it is only through Reason's protocols that one can make a coherent case… — James K. Morrow Copy Share Image
There's also something that is often mistaken for enlightenment which is a kind of insanity. Often, people will have some kind of… — Brad Warner Copy Share Image
“I approached Buddhism the way I approach almost everything. I read books about it. Even though, at first, I didn't understand much… — Mary Bray Pipher Copy Share Image
“When education is overwhelmed by hypermedia, travel facile or ruinous, and work a blurred mixture of more dependence and less meaning, it’s… — Susan Neiman Copy Share Image
“Bodhisattvas are referred to as enlightened “heroes” or “warriors.” They are highly altruistic beings who have the wisdom to realize that by… — Dalai Lama XIV Copy Share Image
The closer we are to God, to divine attributes - such as absolute truth, goodness, and beauty - the more we wonder.… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
You are asking yourself, as all of us must: 'Who am I?' . . . 'Where am I?' . . . 'Whence… — Bill W Copy Share Image
Harvey , Galileo , Copernicus do not seem occult to us, but they did so to their contemporaries, hierophants of the mysteries… — Kenneth Rexroth Copy Share Image
Teaching a practice can also be a hindrance if it becomes one's identity. To be a spiritual teacher is a temporary function.… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“Enlightenment, first of all, implies an insight into the nature of Self. It is an emancipation of mind from illusion concerning Self.… — Kaiten Nukariya Copy Share Image
I've never been uncomfortable with the host of modern gurus, and gurus of different motivations I should say, or different intentions. You… — Maya Tiwari Copy Share Image
“When it shall be desired to enlighten man, let him always have truth laid before him. Instead of kindling his imagination by… — Baron d'Holbach Copy Share Image
“As long as we're in a state of confusion, overwhelmed by the three conflicting emotions, trapped in cyclic existence, we're not happy… — Ngagpa Yeshe Dorje Copy Share Image
Personally, I always wondered about authors and celebrities who loudly declared there was no God. It was usually when they were healthy… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
Do you want to do this thing? Sit down and do it. Are you not writing? Keep sitting there. Does it not… — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
“But to unite in a permanent religious institution which is not to be subject to doubt before the public even in the… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
Relationships are part of a vast plan for our enlightenment; the Holy Spirit's blueprint by with each individual soul is led to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Godmind, Sonnet 2101 Come, look into my eyes, you'll smell the soil from Tabriz, chiming with the whirlwind of Konya. Come, peer… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“Enlightenment is the ability to see beyond all the things we make God to find God. We make religion God and so… — Maryknoll Missions Maryknoll Book of Prayer Copy Share Image
Enlightenment is like witnessing the brilliant sun for the first time in the morning. It is like seeing the beautiful flowers that… — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
“I want to help you understand Buddhism from the ground-level, from a totally introductory standpoint, so that you can take from it… — Dominique Francon Copy Share Image
The basics teachings of Buddha are about understanding what we are, who we are, why we are. When we begin to realize… — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
As Enlightenment philosophers and scholars consciously adopted the methods of science to establish such abstract concepts as rights, liberty, and justice, successive… — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
The zazen I speak of is not learning meditation. It is simply the Dharma gate of repose and bliss, the practice-realization of… — Dogen Copy Share Image
Those who like myself, consider themselves to be followers of Buddha, should practice as much as we can. To followers of other… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Once renunciation and the awakened mind have been fully realized, the way to Buddhahood is clear. Liberation is complete and such liberated… — Maura O'Halloran Copy Share Image
“And yes, given our circumstances, in this post-enlightenment era of post-trust, post-truth, post-rationality, post-honour, and post-chivalry; as meaningless non-entities in a disenchanted… — H.M. Forester 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
This is what enlightenment is all about - a deep understanding that there is no problem. Then, with no problem to solve,… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“The Buddha isn’t a god or deity to be worshipped. He was a rebel and an overthrower, the destroyer of ignorance, the… — Noah Levine Copy Share Image
There is no doubt that religion had already waned under the onslaught of the Enlightenment, but it was Freud who provided the… — Tony Campolo Copy Share Image
“Again, ancient Zenists did not claim that there was any mysterious element in their spiritual attainment, as Do-gen says[FN#259] unequivocally respecting his… — Kaiten Nukariya Copy Share Image
There is this unbounded, infinite, eternal, level, ocean, within every human being. Inner happiness comes with consciousness, bliss, intelligence comes with it.… — David Lynch Copy Share Image
I do a lot of reading on Buddhist philosophy, and a Buddhist nun named Pema Chödrön talks a lot about acceptance. It's… — Sara Bareilles Copy Share Image
“Rather than going after these walls and barriers with a sledgehammer, we pay attention to them. With gentleness and honesty, we move… — Pema Chödrön Copy Share Image
“Guru is not the goal. Anyone who establishes himself as a guru to be worshipped is not a guru. Guru is like… — Swami Rama of the Himalayas Dec. 31 1969 Copy Share Image
“Via the mediation of the Enlightenment, this movement had changed from a hobby among a tiny literate elite and their secretaries, an… — Peter Sloterdijk Copy Share Image
The very desire to seek spiritual enlightenment is in fact nothing but the grasping tendency of the ego itself, and thus the… — Ken Wilber Copy Share Image
“The human being is what links consciousness to its own infinite expressions in form. Through the form of an awake human being,… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
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