Enlightenment Quotes - Page 15

• 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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• A purpose derived from a false premise - that a deity has ordained submission to his will - cannot merit respect. The pursuit of Enlightenment-era goals - solving our world's problems through rational discourse, rather than through religion and tradition - provides ample grounds for a purposive existence. It is not for nothing that the Enlightenment, when atheism truly began to take hold, was also known as the Age of Reason.

  Jeffrey Tayler

  Our World, Goal, Atheism

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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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• Every right quote is a golden stair to enlightenment!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Golden, Stairs

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• Gain is delusion; loss is enlightenment.

  Kodo Sawaki

  Loss, Gains, Delusion

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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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• There exists in society a very special class of persons that I have always referred to as the Believers. These are folks who have chosen to accept a certain religion, philosophy, theory, idea or notion and cling to that belief regardless of any evidence that might, for anyone else, bring it into doubt. They are the ones who encourage and support the fanatics and the frauds of any given age. No amount of evidence, no matter how strong, will bring them any enlightenment. They are the sheep who beg to be fleeced and butchered, and who will battle fiercely to preserve their right to be victimized.

  James Randi

  Strong, Philosophy, Class

  James Randi (1993). “The Mask of Nostradamus: The Prophecies of the World's Most Famous Seer”

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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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• Enlightenment is not a complete remedy.

  Shunryu Suzuki

  Remedy

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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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• Many paths lead to the Door of Enlightenment. Beware those that proclaim there is but one.

  Mary Summer Rain

  Doors, Path, Many Paths

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• Psychological breakdowns are actually breakthroughs to enlightenment.

  R. D. Laing

  Psychological, Breakthrough, Breakdown

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• As Americans we place special emphasis on human dignity, justice and freedom. WE measure as good of bad that which meets these goals. Those high ideas have survived and flourished on this soil for two centuries since the Founding Fathers planted them because we have sustained a general public enlightenment through a free and universal public school system.

  Henry Clausen

  Father, School, Ideas

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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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• Enlightenment is finding that there is nothing to find. Enlightenment is to come to know that there is nowhere to go.

  Rajneesh

  Nowhere To Go, Findings, Knows

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• To those who are trained in science, creationism seems a bad dream, a sudden coming back to life of a nightmare, a renewed march of an Army of the Night risen to challenge free thought and enlightenment.

  Isaac Asimov

  Dream, Army, Night

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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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• Instead of striving towards some distant goal that you will never reach, I invite you to stop and ask: How am I avoiding the enlightenment that is already present in each moment? How am I seeing separation where it doesn't exist?

  Adyashanti

  Goal, Separation, Moments

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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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• Only a development of thought achieved through the self-education of the whole man can prevent any body of thought whatsoever from becoming a poison; can prevent enlightenment from becoming an agent of death.

  Karl Jaspers

  Men, Self, Becoming

  Karl Jaspers (1960). “Way to Wisdom: An Introduction to Philosophy”, p.93, Yale University Press

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