Enlightenment Quotes - Page 22

• I do not in the least underestimate bisexuality... I expect it to provide all further enlightenment.

  Sigmund Freud

  Underestimate, Bisexuality

  Sigmund Freud's letter to Wilhelm Fliess, March 25, 1898.

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• I didn't have to go all the way to India for spiritual enlightenment. The blue-collar spirituality of everyday life was right in front of me, it was in every nook and cranny if I wanted to seek it, but I had chosen to ignore it.

  Anthony Kiedis

  Spiritual, Blue, Everyday

  Anthony Kiedis, Larry Sloman (2004). “Scar Tissue”, p.278, Hachette UK

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• poems are small moments of enlightenment

  Natalie Goldberg

  Small Moments, Moments

  Natalie Goldberg (2016). “Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within”, p.38, Shambhala Publications

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• From a mind filled with infinite love comes the power to create infinite possibilities. We have the power to think in ways that reflect and attract all the love in the world. Such thinking is called enlightenment. Enlightenment is not a process we work toward, but a choice available to us in any instant.

  Marianne Williamson

  Thinking, Choices, Mind

  Marianne Williamson (2012). “The Law of Divine Compensation: On Work, Money, and Miracles”, p.7, Harper Collins

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• A person must earn enlightenment, Eragon. It is not handed down to you by others, regardless of how revered they be.

  Christopher Paolini

  Eragon, Persons

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• Being an outsider to some extent, someone who does not "fit in" with others or is rejected by them for whatever reason, makes life difficult, but it also places you at an advantage as far as enlightenment is concerned. It takes you out of unconsciousness almost by force.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Doe, Outsiders, Fit

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.173, New World Library

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• Enlightenment is scary. Sometimes things look better in the dark.

  David Levithan

  Dark, Scary, Looks

  David Levithan (2014). “How They Met and Other Stories”, p.136, Egmont UK

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• In a controversy, the instant we feel anger, we have already ceased striving for truth and have begun striving for ourselves.

  Abraham Joshua Heschel

  Buddhist, Truth, Life Changing

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• Watch your thoughts, they become words. Watch your words, they become your actions. Watch your actions, they become habits. Watch your habits, they become character. Watch your character, it becomes your destiny.

  Frank Jackson

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• I never see what has been done; I only see what remains to be done.

  Marie Curie

  Positive, Inspiring, Moving On

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• In Europe, the Enlightenment of the 18th century was seen as a battle against the desire of the Church to limit intellectual freedom, a battle against the Inquisition, a battle against religious censorship. And the victory of the Enlightenment in Europe was seen as pushing religion away from the center of power. In America, at the same time, the Enlightenment meant coming to a country where people were not going to persecute you by reason of your religion. So it meant a liberation into religion. In Europe, it was liberation out of religion.

  Salman Rushdie

  Country, Religious, America

  "The Iconoclast". Interview with Shikha Dalmia, reason.org. August 1, 2005.

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• Men of vision caught glimpses of truth and beauty shining aloft like stars: and in these glimpses was a new hope for the unification of mankind through enlightenment.

  Robert Falconer

  Stars, Truth, Knowledge

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• Since life is but a continuous series of experiences, everything ultimately helps me towards my final enlightenment.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Life, Finals, Helping

  "Ten Thousand Flower Flames". Poetry series by Sri Chinmoy (#4029, Part 41), 1979.

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• Love is the state of enlightenment and enlightenment is the state of love. You can't make any separation between them. Enlightenment is the state of no feelings and pure knowledge and so is love.

  Barry Long

  Life, Love You, Love Is

  "Love is not a feeling ~ The Interview". Interview with Hal Blacker, 1995.

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• Good thoughts are no better than good dreams, unless they are executed.

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

  Inspirational, Motivational, Being Strong

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• Enlightenment is the "quiet acceptance of what is". I believe the truly enlightened beings are those who refuse to allow themselves to be distressed over things that simply are the way they are.

  Wayne Dyer

  Believe, Yoga, Acceptance

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• Enlightenment of your brain means the limited capacity of your brain has to become unlimited in its capacity to realize God.

  Nirmala Srivastava

  Love, Wisdom, Yoga

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• When you are realized, you can start feeling your own chakras and the chakras of other people. This is enlightenment.

  Nirmala Srivastava

  Love, Wisdom, Yoga

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• Painting is a means of self-enlightenment.

  John Olsen

  Art, Mean, Self

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• Things flourish, then each returns to its root. Returning to the root is called stillness: Stillness is called return to life, return to life is called the constant; knowing the constant is called enlightenment.

  Laozi

  Spiritual, Roots, Knowing

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• A flash of enlightenment offers a preview of coming attractions, but when it fades, you will see more clearly what separates you from that state - your compulsive habits, outmoded beliefs, false associations, and other mental structures. Just when our lives are starting to get better, we may feel like things are getting worse - because for the first time we see clearly what needs to be done.

  Dan Millman

  Spiritual, Get Better, Needs

  Dan Millman (1992). “No Ordinary Moments: A Peaceful Warrior's Guide to Daily Life”, p.15, H J Kramer

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• What you are aware of you are in control of; what you are not aware of is in control of you.

  Anthony de Mello

  Spiritual, Spirituality, Awareness

  Anthony De Mello (2011). “Awareness: Conversations with the Masters”, p.71, Image

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• Enlightenment means rising above thought, not falling back to a level below thought, the level of an animal or a plant. In the enlightened state, you still use your thinking mind when needed, but in a much more focused and effective way than before.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Spiritual, Fall, Mean

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.23, New World Library

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• It is a special kind of enlightenment to have this feeling that the usual, the way things normally are, is odduncanny and highly improbable. G.K.Chesterton once said that it is one thing to be amazed at gorgon or a griffin, creatures which do not exist; but it is quite another and much higher thing to be amazed at a rhinoceros or a giraffe, creatures which do exist and look as if they don't. This feeling of universal oddity includes a basic and intense wondering about the sense of things.

  Alan Watts

  Spiritual, Oddities, Feelings

  Alan Watts (2011). “The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are”, p.7, Souvenir Press

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• You don't want to know the Truth, you want to know the truth as you understand it. This is the greatest barrier to your enlightenment. You think you already know the truth! You think you already understand how it is. So you agree with everything you see or hear or read that falls into the paradigm of your understanding, and reject everything which does not.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Fall, Thinking, Understanding

  "Conversations With God: Book One". Book by Neale Donald Walsch, January 22, 2009.

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