Enlightenment Quotes - Page 17

• The species of anti-Enlightenment religion we find among evangelical protestants is far more impoverished, anti-intellectual and downright wretched.

  Allen W. Wood

  Intellectual, Evangelical, Species

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Today’s enlightenment is tomorrows mistake

  Shinzen Young

  Mistake, Today, Tomorrow

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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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• When the human condition is finally demystified, human insecurity and nervousness will be at a maximum...for this ultimate enlightenment to be allowed, society is going to have to adhere scrupulously to the democratic principle of freedom of expression.

  Jeremy Griffith

  Expression, Insecurity, Principles

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• Sometimes I was too tired,
  other times just lazy. Now and then, I was frustrated because nothing seemed to be happening - no
  signs from God, no enlightenment, nothing. But that wasn't the point, the Shaykh explained. What
  mattered was the inner connection with God, which builds slowly and only transforms us gradually.
  Another obstacle, however, was that I often found it hard to concentrate during the dhikr.

  Kristiane Backer

  Tired, Dhikr, Lazy

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• You can call it wisdom, or sanity, or health, or enlightenment. I use the word God as a short-cut. I am comfortable with the word God because I don't have the foggiest idea of what it means.

  Stephen Levine

  Mean, Cutting, Ideas

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• In a special sense... the three great natural states of waking, dreaming, and deep sleep contain an entire spectrum of spiritual enlightenment.

  Ken Wilber

  Dream, Spiritual, Sleep

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• Enlightenment demands that you take responsibility for your way of life.

  Wayne Dyer

  Responsibility, Demand, Way

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• Thomas Jefferson, the leading Enlightenment figure in the United States, along with Benjamin Franklin, who took exactly the same view, argued that dependence will lead to "subservience and venality", and will "suffocate the germs of virtue". And remember, by dependence he meant wage labor, which was considered an abomination under classical liberal principles.

  Noam Chomsky

  Views, Principles, United States

  "Education and Democracy". Talk at Michigan State University, March 28, 1995.

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• With the development of industrial capitalism, a new and unanticipated system of injustice, it is libertarian socialism that has preserved and extended the radical humanist message of the Enlightenment and the classical liberal ideals that were perverted into an ideology to sustain the emerging social order.

  Noam Chomsky

  Order, Development, Libertarian

  Noam Chomsky (2013). “The Essential Chomsky”, p.114, The New Press

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• Libertarian socialism is properly to be regarded as the inheritor of the liberal ideals of the Enlightenment.

  Noam Chomsky

  Libertarian, Socialism, Ideals

  Noam Chomsky (2013). “The Essential Chomsky”, p.115, The New Press

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• The pursuit of enlightenment is for the purpose of the world, not merely for the purpose of the individual. Practices for enlightenment must lead to action in the world.

  Bernie Glassman

  Practice, Purpose, World

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• Happiness arises when you relax into the reality of your natural condition. The secrets of the universe are already in you as you. Seeking anything implies that you don't have it; every search for the idea of enlightenment leads you further away from it. The magnificance of life does not await you - it actually is you.

  Mark Whitwell

  Reality, Ideas, Secret

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• If you ever reach enlightenment. will you remember how to laugh?

  Andrea Gibson

  Laughing, Remember, Ifs

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• By nature, it's impossible to describe enlightenment! How do you plan on sharing your enlightenment? Hahaha, that's impossible. Wake up! That'll be the end of the world if you ever succeed!

  Osamu Tezuka

  Hahaha, Wake Up, World

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• We can continue our quest for improvement or not. We can search for happiness, enlightenment, security or identity or not. The search is not wrong; it is unrelated to the actual world.

  Steven Harrison

  Identity, World, Quests

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• You are a Buddha, and so is everyone else. I didn't make that up. It was the Buddha himself who said so. He said that all beings had the potential to become awakened. To practice walking meditation is to practice living in mindfulness. Mindfulness and enlightenment are one. Enlightenment leads to mindfulness and mindfulness leads to enlightenment.

  Nhat Hanh

  Walking Meditation, Practice, Mindfulness

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• Start to see yourself for who you really are: a traveller, an explorer or on the path of life, confidently advancing along the path of enlightenment towards your destiny. Don't lose sight of the things that are truly vital in your life.

  Robin Sharma

  Destiny, Sight, Path

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• [In] the post-Enlightenment world, science [has] taken the place of magic, miracles, and superstition.

  Jonah Goldberg

  Taken, Miracle, Magic

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