Quotes About Enlightenment

He knows he is missing something. He is always missing something. He can never get past the first stop of finding it, which is knowing what it is.

Thus, the process is "to die before you die," as stated in many religious traditions. That is, once you face your certain death, that repressed fear of death no longer runs you. Nothing scares you anymore. Fear is a big stack, and at the bottom of that stack is the fear of physical death.

You wouldn't use a hammer to open a can of soup. You can't use the intellect to apprehend spiritual reality.

The philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next.

as Douglass gained literacy, "Why is light given to a man whose way is hid, and whom God hath hedged in?

the sobering admission that slavery "did not die honestly." It had died in all-out war, from necessity, not from enlightenment and morality alone. It had been crushed in blood, not merely legislated out of existence

Stupidity and bigotry are their own worst enemies

Sometimes it takes darkness and the sweet confinement of your aloneness to learn anything or anyone that does not bring you alive is too small for you.

A true vocation calls us out beyond ourselves; breaks our heart in the process and then humbles, simplifies and enlightens us about the hidden, core nature of the work that enticed us in the first place.

In fact, we have suffered under a variety of illusions about who and what we are that have kept us trapped in a prison of materialistic thought.

You Won't Be Thanked For Kicking Down The Doors of Perception And Revealing Infinity To Others.

Pero una vez que has tocado el amor verdadero —una vez que has tocado la verdad— dejas de necesitar un sistema como la religión para que te lleve hasta allí.

Kabbalah tells us that when things are difficult, it means that some kind of Light is trying to be revealed.

Yoga is only a means and not the end.

Who am I? The great inquiry indeed.

The guru is in you.

The process of giving is an essential aspect of reaching the advanced stages of kundalini unfoldment and continuing progress on the path of yoga. The more we are able to give, the more we are able to receive in terms of our own spiritual evolution.

Unlike many others around this time, Joyce felt no shame about using the term 'middle class'. In the Chalfen lexicon the middle classes were the inheritors of the enlightenment, the creators of the welfare state, the intellectual elite and the source of all culture. Where they got this idea, it's hard to say.)

In the Chalfen lexicon the middle classes were the inheritors of the enlightenment, the creators of the welfare state, the intellectual elite and the source of all culture.

Those who regard worldly affairs as a hindrance to buddha dharma think only that there is no buddha dharma in the secular world; they do not understand that there is no secular world in buddha dharma.

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Buddha wasn't the man everybody made him out to be. He wasn't the type of man who poured out the belief of there's no one higher than him. He just wanted to teach his people the importance of knowledge. Kind of like Elijah Muhammad.

Beckett had an unerring light on things, which I much appreciated.

Triste condition de l'homme! il n'y a pas un de ses bounheurs qui ne vienne d'une ignorance quelconque." ??? ??? ???? ?? ??????? ??? ??? ?? ???? ???????? ??? ??? ????? ??? ??????? ????? ?? ??? ??