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• Meditate on enlightenment. Read the exploits of the great teachers, the great saints. They'll inspire you. Their power is there.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Inspire, Saint

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• So in the world of Enlightenment, things are just things, except they're not things. We're in nirvana. There is no debating team.

  Frederick Lenz

  Team, World, Nothingness

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• Determine where you are and where you wish to be. Then use all of your self-effort to make that happen, following the guiding principles of all the Buddhas and bohisattvas and seekers of the dharma, of enlightenment.

  Frederick Lenz

  Guiding Principles, Self, Effort

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• Care, but don't be pushy! Don't preach about enlightenment to people who don't really want to hear about it.

  Frederick Lenz

  People, Care, Want

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• Enlightenment is not about being political. It is not a social club. Ashrams often turn into that, I know. Societies of enlightenment often just become cliques.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Political, Clubs

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• Zen is a very quick path. Zen is the path of meditation. The word Zen means emptiness or fullness, meditation. Meditation is the quickest path to enlightenment.

  Frederick Lenz

  Mean, Meditation, Path

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• Each of the small enlightenments that a Zen practitioner has, which are known in Zen as "Satori experiences," provides deeper insights into the nature of existence and helps a person prepare for complete enlightenment.

  Frederick Lenz

  Helping, Satori, Existence

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• In Zen the emphasis is on meditation and developing your body, mind and spirit to find inner peace, strength, clarity and enlightenment.

  Frederick Lenz

  Meditation, Inner Peace, Mind

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• From the highest state of mind you have a window whereby you could perhaps move beyond all states of mind, to enlightenment.

  Frederick Lenz

  Moving, Mind, Window

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• Zen is a very fast path to enlightenment, fast in comparison to some other paths, not fast for the person who practices it. There is no sense of speed.

  Frederick Lenz

  Practice, Path, Speed

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• You must continue to go back to the beginning, to the foundation, and question the foundation. Even once you‘ve reached Samadhi you must go back so you can create it at will. Samadhi is the beginning of spiritual growth, not the end. You must always be questioning. Enlightenment comes as an accident at first, then you have to learn to recreate it.

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Spiritual, Growth, Foundation

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• The liberals of the eighteenth century, guided by the ideas of natural law and of the Enlightenment, demanded for everyone equality of political and civil rights... Nothing, however, is as ill-founded as the assertion of the alleged equality of all members of the human race.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Rights, Race, Law

  Ludwig von Mises (2016). “Liberalism: The Classical Tradition: The Economist”, p.14, VM eBooks

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• September 11 was a day of de-Enlightenment. Politics stood revealed as a veritable Walpurgis Night of the irrational. And such old, old stuff. The conflicts we now face or fear involve opposed geographical arenas, but also opposed centuries or even millennia. It is a landscape of ferocious anachronisms: nuclear jihad in the Indian subcontinent; the medieval agonism of Islam; the Bronze Age blunderings of the Middle East.

  Martin Amis

  Night, September 11, Islam

  "The voice of the lonely crowd" by Martin Amis, www.theguardian.com. June 1, 2002.

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• I am who I am who I am who am I Requesting some enlightenment Could I have been anyone other than me?

  Dave Matthews

  Who I Am, I Am Who I Am, Has Beens

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• Self-interest is hostile to the common good, but enlightened self-interest is not. And this is the best key to the meaning of enlightenment.

  Allan Bloom

  Keys, Self, Common

  Allan Bloom (2008). “Closing of the American Mind”, p.167, Simon and Schuster

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• The question rather is how we should do science and theology in light of the impending collapse of Enlightenment rationalism and scientific naturalism. These ideologies are on the way out. They are on the way out.

  William A. Dembski

  Light, Way, Should

  William A. Dembski (2002). “Intelligent Design: The Bridge Between Science & Theology”, p.14, InterVarsity Press

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• Pray to God with tears in your eyes whenever you want illumination or find yourself faced with any doubt or difficulty. The Lord will remove all your impurities, assuage your mental anguish, and give you enlightenment.

  Sarada Devi

  Eye, Illumination, Giving

  "Sri Sarada Devi, the Holy Mother; Life and Conversations". Book by Swami Nikhilananda, August 31, 2004.

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• Harvey , Galileo , Copernicus do not seem occult to us, but they did so to their contemporaries, hierophants of the mysteries of Natural Law, revealers of the secrets of a New Order of the Ages. After all, the movement eventually came to be called the Age of Enlightenment.

  Kenneth Rexroth

  Order, Law, Secret

  Kenneth Rexroth (1968). “Classics Revisited”, p.132, New Directions Publishing

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• I am a humble adherent of...Enlightenment Rationalist Fundamentalism.

  Ernest Gellner

  Humble, Fundamentalism

  "Postmodernism, Reason and Religion". Book by Ernest Gellner, 1992.

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• What, concretely, is Enlightenment ?" "Seeing Reality as it is," said the Master. "Doesn't everyone see Reality as it is?" "Oh, no! Most people see it as they think it is." "What's the difference?" "The difference between thinking you are drowning in a stormy sea and knowing you cannot drown because there isn't any water in sight for miles around.

  Anthony de Mello

  Reality, Thinking, Sight

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• We must therefore turn to history for enlightenment; here we find that none of the proclaimed anarchist groups correspond to the libertarian position, that even the best of them have unrealistic and socialistic elements in their doctrines. Furthermore, we find that all of the current anarchists are irrational collectivists, and therefore at opposite poles from our position. We must therefore conclude that we are not anarchists, and that those who call us anarchists are not on firm etymological ground, and are being completely unhistorical.

  Murray Rothbard

  Opposites, Groups, Doctrine

  "Are Libertarians 'Anarchists'?". Faith and Freedom, unpublished, mid-1950s.

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• By god the Buddhist means that from which the universe was born, the unborn of the Buddhist scriptures, and by soul that factor in the thing called man which moves towards enlightenment. Why need more be said of it, at any rate those who are not content with scholarship, but strive to attain that same enlightenment?

  Christmas Humphreys

  Buddhist, Moving, Mean

  Christmas Humphreys (1969). “An Invitation to the Buddhist Way of Life for Western Readers”

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• Only until you rise above the use of the second attention for manipulation that you can enter into a consciousness in which there is enlightenment.

  Frederick Lenz

  Women, Attention, Use

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• For the first time, we live in a society that shows any sign of the possibility of women changing this condition.

  Frederick Lenz

  Women, Firsts, Possibility

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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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