“There were so many beliefs which we had about the world, which then influenced everything, everything, about how we saw the world… — T. Scott McLeod Copy Share Image
The origins of the modern West are often seen in the Enlightenment of the seventeenth and eighteenth century, but the roots of… — Ibn Warraq Copy Share Image
“One can be enlightened about proofs as well as theorems. Without enlightenment, one is merely reduced to memorizing proofs. With enlightenment about… — Herbert S. Gaskill Copy Share Image
From a mind filled with infinite love comes the power to create infinite possibilities. We have the power to think in ways… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
“That which reduces ego is considered knowledge of the Enlightened Ones (Vitraagi Gnan). And the ego that is reduced through conduct and… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
Enlightenment doesn't mean we were never wounded; it means we've found a way to evolve beyond our wounds. Enlightenment isn't idealistic; it's… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
“COMING FORTH INTO THE LIGHT I was born the day I thought: What is? What was? And What if? I was transformed… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
Rather than being any longer a threat to the established androcratic order, Christianity became what practically all this earth's religions, launched in… — Riane Eisler Copy Share Image
Buddha himself taught different teachings to different people under different circumstances. For some people, there are beliefs based on a Creator. For… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Free speech is essential to education, especially to a liberal education, which encourages the search for truths in art and science. If… — Norman Dorsen Copy Share Image
“This witnessing consciousness, this formless dimension of yourself, is the awareness in which your experience happens, yet it remains untouched by this… — Joseph P. Kauffman Copy Share Image
They say the full potential of the human being is called enlightenment, which is infinite consciousness, infinite happiness, zero negativity, zero dying,… — David Lynch Copy Share Image
“What distinguishes Buddhism from any other faith I’ve studied—from most human beings, really—is that the people who face the wall and the… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
“What I find hilarious is that these people looking for ego death, who want to become so enlightened are usually those with… — Ryan Gelpke Copy Share Image
The Buddha also counseled the monks and nuns to avoid wasting any precious time by engaging in idle conversation, oversleeping, pursuing fame… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
Christianity has held back any further advances in human consciousness for the past thousand years. And for the past century it's been… — David Gerrold Copy Share Image
The liberals of the eighteenth century, guided by the ideas of natural law and of the Enlightenment, demanded for everyone equality of… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
“When all is said and done, there is no shortcut to Nirvana. But in this narcissistic age of instant gratification and swift… — Joe Fisher Copy Share Image
“The consciousness inhabiting your body is exactly the same as the consciousness inhabiting my body. We are one. The delusion that we… — Joseph P. Kauffman Copy Share Image
“Saints and bodhisattvas may achieve what Christians call mystical union or Buddhists call satori--a perpetual awareness of the force at the heart… — Scott Russell Sanders Copy Share Image
“For, although the Buddhas themselves do not cling to such notions as purity and impurity or truth and untruth, they assist the… — Karl Brunnholzl Copy Share Image
When one has a decisive realization of the inherent nature of the mind, which has no ego, it has no sense of… — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share Image
“There are many fishes in the sea and then there are a few beautiful swishy mermaids. Me?! No, I'm not the fish… — Himanjali Singh Copy Share Image
Enlightenment is finding that there is nothing to find. Enlightenment is to come to know that there is nowhere to go. Enlightenment… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
To live in the Great Way is neither easy nor difficult, but those with limited views are fearful and irresolute: the faster… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In verity we are the poor. This humanity we would claim for ourselves is the legacy, not only of the Enlightenment, but… — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
“Knowing it, you know the very heartbeat of existence. Knowing it, you have known all that is worth knowing, and you have… — Osho Copy Share Image
Buddha's Wife tells a fascinating story, little known in the west, about the woman whom Buddha left behind. Gabriel Constans focuses the… — Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni Copy Share Image
“Our talk must ‘adjust’ to others. If our talk does not adjust to others, then it is our mistake only. It is… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
A fish swims in the ocean, and no matter how far it swims there is no end to the water. A bird… — Dogen Copy Share Image
“The correct attitude is one where you have no more time to waste. This means that everything is oriented toward the now.… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
Every human being has consciousness, but not every human being has the same amount. The potential for each one of us human… — David Lynch Copy Share Image
To stay with that shakiness-to stay with a broken heart, with a rumbling stomach, with the feeling of hopelessness and wanting to… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
The fact of the matter is that Buddhism has changed a lot. When St. Francis of Xavier arrived in Japan, he wrote… — Ninian Smart Copy Share Image
The point of recapitulation in the first movement of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony unleashes one of the most horrifyingly violent episodes in the… — Susan McClary Copy Share Image
The one and only thing required is to free oneself from the bondage of mind and body alike, putting the Buddha's own… — Dogen Copy Share Image
“A friend of mine commented yesterday that she has experienced similar insights that I talked about that all enlightened Masters and founders… — Swami Dhyan Giten Copy Share Image
Since the so-called Age of Enlightenment, our shaky anthropocentric, rationalist egos have been brainwashed to forget what 'primitive' cultures once understood: Animals… — Zeena Schreck Copy Share Image
“Hence there is no free admission to the process of enlightenment - it is always paid at a psycho-traumatic cost. Only such… — Peter Sloterdijk Copy Share Image
“Much of the Buddhist aspiration revolves around mastering this internal reality, fortifying it, and cutting all external strings that might be attached… — Michael Williams Copy Share Image
