Active Quote by Chang-Rae Lee

Yes, our enlightenment process is coming, but now it's about accepting our own imperfection as a human being, and through that we come back…

— Christine McCormick Day

It is possible to renounce everything and attain enlightenment. But most people don't want to renounce; they wish to run away from responsibility and…

— Frederick Lenz

I think one can live in American society with a certain cultural heritage, whether it's an African heritage or other, European,what have you, and…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Awakening of Western thought will not be complete until that thought steps outside itself and comes to an understanding with the search for a…

— Albert Schweitzer

When one looks back over human existence however, it is very evident that all culture has developed through an initial resistance against adaptation to…

— Anonymous

To establish oneself in the world, one does all one can to seem established there already.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

There is an emergent enlightenment appearing today, unique to no particular culture or ethnicity. Anyone who chooses to be, is its conduit.

— Marianne Williamson

We think there’s someplace other than here to get to—that’s what drives the whole pursuit. Only when the pursuit ceases, is it possible to…

— Adyashanti

No one is born fully-formed: it is through self-experience in the world that we become what we are.

— Paulo Freire

“Ascension through all levels of consciousness and awareness can only happen when you live life as you, and not how others think you should…

— Bryant McGill

I think we are all individuals at the end of the day. There's nothing about culture that can prescribe who you're meant to be.

— Anoushka Shankar

The question of identity has separated from the issue of 'assimilation', having lost much of its drama and become, so to speak, a secular…

— Zygmunt Bauman