Enlightenment Quotes

880 Enlightenment quotes by 346 unique authors

We might think we can find a buddha or enlightenment somewhere beyond this mind; we might think we can find serenity, clarity, and meaning beyond… — Geoffrey Shugen Arnold
History shows that our way of life is the stronger way. From it has come more wealth, more industry, more happiness, more human enlightenment than… — Wendell Willkie
Further, if Spirit has any meaning at all, then it must be eternal, or without beginning or end. If Spirit had a beginning in time,… — Ken Wilber
In short, the enlightenment privatized marriage, taking it out of the public sphere, and redefined its purpose as individual gratification, not any 'broader good' such… — Timothy Keller
[Men] prefer the foolish belief and the passions of the earth [to the enlightenment of their souls]. They believe the absurd and shrink from the… — Iain Pears
The genius of Man in our time has gone into jet-propulsion, atom-splitting, penicillin-curing, etc. There is left none over for works of imagination; of spiritual… — Malcolm Muggeridge
Disease an never be conquered, can never be quelled by emotion's willful screaming or faith's symbolic prayer. It can only be conquered by the energy… — Sean O'Casey
ZEN is MEDITATION. ARCHY is Social Order. ZENARCHY is the Social Order which springs from Meditation. As a doctrine, it holds Universal Enlightenment a prerequisite… — Kerry Thornley
Our sexual lives are maintained by the shadow side and the light side, so the more we can understand and embrace enlightenment, the less need… — Kyan Douglas
A fully blossomed human potential is enlightenment. It is becoming a child again, and coming back to your original nature. — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Attachment is the main thing that is blocking your path towards enlightenment. — Garchen Rinpoche
We do not slight the idea of enlightenment, but the most important thing is this moment, not some day in the future. We have to… — Shunryu Suzuki
In dealing with the arrogant asserter of doubt, it is not the right method to tell him to stop doubting. It is rather the right… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Before enlightenment, chopping wood and carrying water. After enlightenment, chopping wood and carrying water. — Matsuo Basho
The air they breathe, being a living element with both physical and psychical properties, carries a subtle vital energy. This in India is named by… — Frank Waters
Many of us have a tendency to deny any negative feelings. We judge them as "bad" or "unenlightened" when, in fact, they are our stepping… — Shakti Gawain
Only the rich can achieve enlightenment because the poor are too busy looking for fridge freezers. — Rajneesh
The practice is enlightenment. Some people find this idea not to their liking. They want to get enlightenment in a flash. This way they become… — Tim Ward
It never occurred to any Enlightenment figure in the eighteenth century that law was not preferable to man. — Gore Vidal
The first who attracts the eye, the first in enlightenment, in power and in happiness, is the white man, the European, man par excellence; below… — Alexis de Tocqueville
It is the courage to make a clean breast of it in the face of every question that makes the philosopher. He must be like… — Arthur Schopenhauer
The Enlightenment view of mankind is a complete myth. It leads us into thinking we're sane and rational creatures most of the time, and we're… — J. G. Ballard
A man whose mind feels that it is captive would prefer to blind himself to the fact. But if he hates falsehood, he will not… — Simone Weil
Culture, with its processes and functions, is a subject upon which we need all the enlightenment we can achieve, and there is no direction in… — Ruth Benedict
I'm very much an Enlightenment kind of guy. — Jimmy Wales

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