Enlightenment Quotes - Page 14

• Don't care what anybody says about enlightenment, except the enlightened and those who seek it.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhist, Buddhism, Care

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• What matters is that you meditate, you're seeking enlightenment, you're on the pathway to enlightenment, and you're having fun. Don't look for reassurance in the eyes of others. Look for reassurance in your own eyes. Only you know if Buddhist practice is improving the quality of your life.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhist, Fun, Eye

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• People in the West sometimes have these marvelous visions of India and Tibet. They assume that there are all these sadhus walking around and everybody is breathing enlightenment. Forget it. Don't look at it through rose-colored glasses.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Glasses, Breathing

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• Metaphysics is the study of how to shift the self. How to get outside the self-reflection and to just gaze with awe and wonder at the countless universes, the countless celestial radiances of mind, of life, of enlightenment, nirvana, or God, whatever you want to call it.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Science, Reflection

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• If you seek enlightenment, then career is a very important idea on your agenda. Approach your career from this standpoint and you will have a very different career. You will be successful.

  Frederick Lenz

  Success, Buddhism, Careers

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• One of the greatest mistakes that people make who pursue self-discovery is they neglect to develop their careers. There is a popular notion that those who seek enlightenment should abandon the things of this world.

  Frederick Lenz

  Success, Mistake, Buddhism

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• I meet people who neglect career. Their lives aren't centered at all. They don't have much money. They have this spaced-out look in their eyes. Their chances for enlightenment are very small, unless they change the way they live.

  Frederick Lenz

  Success, Eye, Buddhism

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• There are some careers that will develop your mind more than others. In the study of enlightenment, it is most important to develop your mind and your body.

  Frederick Lenz

  Success, Buddhism, Careers

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• If you seek to develop the mind fully, for the enlightenment process, you will benefit if your career is related to computer science, law, medicine, or the arts.

  Frederick Lenz

  Success, Art, Buddhism

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• Use career to develop yourself. Have fun with it. Dedicate your activities and your career, to eternity, and to enlightenment.

  Frederick Lenz

  Success, Fun, Buddhism

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• Your intent is important. You will pull a very deep power when you are working not just for yourself, but you are working for your enlightenment and to aid others in their enlightenment.

  Frederick Lenz

  Success, Buddhism, Careers

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• I think it is very important to view life in terms of winning and losing until complete enlightenment has occurred.

  Frederick Lenz

  Success, Buddhism, Winning

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• As you progress towards enlightenment you will find that you become a winner at anything, not because you are so concerned about winning anymore. You are just concerned about the pursuit of excellence.

  Frederick Lenz

  Success, Buddhism, Winning

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• Who wants to be stuck in being religious and being spiritual either? That's not freedom. You've just exchanged handcuffs for leg irons - which doesn't mean that you should avoid enlightenment.

  Frederick Lenz

  Spiritual, Religious, Mean

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• Enlightenment has nothing to do with being spiritual. Being spiritual is just an idea - it's another ring of perception.

  Frederick Lenz

  Spiritual, Ideas, Perception

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• Most of the founding fathers, sympathetic with and influenced by the European Enlightenment, saw religion - natural religion, that is - as a potential good, but with equal clarity they saw the religions of existing institutions and religions based on a fixed scriptural revelation as meddlesome, wrong-headed and hopelessly obsolete.

  Edwin Gaustad

  Father, Atheism, Saws

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• Personal power is the reflection of a person of knowledge. A person of knowledge, an enlightened person, a person even close to enlightenment, has a great deal of personal power.

  Frederick Lenz

  Reflection, Gaining Power, Enlightened

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• Secular humanism proposes ... the complete implementation of the agenda of modernism ... what is necessary for it to occur is a ... New Enlightenment.

  Paul Kurtz

  Atheism, Agendas, Secular Humanism

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• Enlightenment is a group activity.

  Charles Eisenstein

  Groups, Activity

  Charles Eisenstein (2013). “The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know Is Possible”, p.27, North Atlantic Books

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• Do you want to do this thing? Sit down and do it. Are you not writing? Keep sitting there. Does it not feel right? Keep sitting there. Think of yourself as a monk walking the path to enlightenment. Think of yourself as a high school senior wanting to be a neurosurgeon. Is it possible? Yes. Is there some shortcut? Not one I've found. Writing is a miserable, awful business. Stay with it. It is better than anything in the world.

  Ann Patchett

  Senior, School, Writing

  Ann Patchett (2013). “This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage”, p.60, A&C Black

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• Enlightenment is eliminating mental confusion, eliminating hatred, jealousy, mental toxins, cravings. That's very simple and straightforward. Whether you can do it or not is another matter.

  Matthieu Ricard

  Simple, Confusion, Hatred

  "Want to be happy? Slow down". Interview with Guy Raz, ideas.ted.com. January 23, 2015.

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• Today’s enlightenment is tomorrows mistake

  Shinzen Young

  Mistake, Today, Tomorrow

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• Live on berries in a hollowed-out comet lit by artificial suns long enough, and you start to have delusions about achieving enlightenment.

  Hannu Rajaniemi

  Long, Sun, Berries

  Hannu Rajaniemi (2012). “The Fractal Prince”, p.17, Hachette UK

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• The Encyclopedia - the advance artillery of reason, the armada of philosophy, the siege engine of the enlightenment.

  Peter Prange

  Philosophy, Siege, Reason

  Peter Prange (2011). “The Philosopher's Kiss: A Novel”, p.291, Simon and Schuster

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• Perhaps enlightenment, technology and secularism haven't cleared Europe of the oldest science of all - the occult.

  Adam Nevill

  Technology, Europe, Occult

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