Attitude Quote by Nancy Pearcey

“Gnosticism is a system of thought based on interior, psychospiritual experience. This being the case, it is not surprising that Gnosticism emphasizes states of…

— Stephan A. Hoeller

Anything but enlightenment is pure pain; it is the lack of enlightenment.

— Frederick Lenz

“Gnostics (and Buddhists) have often been labeled pessimists and world haters because of their willingness to look the dark face of the world in…

— Stephan A. Hoeller

Enlightenment just means that you don't have a structural self. It means you've flipped through the gradated realities. Nothing binds, nothing clings to you.…

— Frederick Lenz

“Gnosticism may rightly be described as an alien religion in that it explores mankind’s cosmic alienation; the belief that this is not all there…

— Gordon White

If there isn't an emanation of love and joy, complete presence and openness toward all beings, then it is not enlightenment.

— Eckhart Tolle

The Gnostics believed that exile was the essential condition of man. Do you agree? I do. The artist and the addict both wrestle with…

— Steven Pressfield

No true search for enlightenment ignores the suffering of other sentient beings. Ever. We simply need to create a way to address that suffering…

— Marianne Williamson

“Enlightenment doesn’t make us a better person if we seek it just for us. It doesn’t erase our desires or put an end to…

— Balroop Singh

“In Buddhist thought, enlightenment is understood not as the presence of something but as the absence of something: the permanent extinction in our lives…

— Simon Parke

Enlightenment means that you're living fully, and it means that you die fully. And then you go beyond life and death completely, everything, nothing,…

— Frederick Lenz

Enlightenment is just another word for feeling comfortable with being a completely ordinary person.

— Veronique Vienne