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• Don't think you can attain total awareness and whole enlightenment without proper discipline and practice. This is egomania. Appropriate rituals channel your emotions and life energy toward the light. Without the discipline to practice them, you will tumble constantly backward into darkness.

  Laozi

  Life, Thinking, Light

  Laozi, Brian Browne Walker (1992). “Hua Hu Ching: Teachings of Lao Tzu”

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• Discomfort is always a necessary part of enlightenment.

  Pearl Cleage

  Brilliant, Discomfort

  "The Beautiful Discomfort of John Ridley’s American Crime" by Wade Davis II, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 10, 2015.

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• Buddhists don't feel that enlightenment is particularly unusual. We feel that it's the natural state. Enlightenment simply means perceiving life directly as it is in all of its infinite, ever changing wonder, in all of its varied, myriad states of mind or as pari-nirvana, or whatever.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhist, Mean, Mind

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• Fill yourself with the power of wisdom and enlightenment.

  Morihei Ueshiba

  Wisdom, Enlightened, Highest

  Morihei Ueshiba, John Stevens (2010). “The Art of Peace”, p.47, Shambhala Publications

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• Why write a book on uncovering past lives? Because the benefits for personal empowerment, healing, and enlightenment are tremendous.

  Ted Andrews

  Book, Writing, Healing

  Ted Andrews (2011). “How To Uncover Your Past Lives”, p.6, Llewellyn Worldwide

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• I'd been busy, busy, so busy, preparing for life, while life floated by me, quiet and swift as a regatta.

  Lorene Cary

  Quiet, Busy, Preparing

  Lorene Cary (2010). “Black Ice”, p.218, Vintage

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• In tribulation immediately draw near to God with confidence, and you will receive strength, enlightenment, and instruction.

  John of the Cross

  Confidence, Instruction, Draws

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• In your everyday life you always have opportunities for enlightenment. If you go to the rest room, there is a chance to attain enlightenment. When you cook, there is a chance to attain enlightenment. When you clean the floor, there is a chance to attain enlightenment.

  Shunryu Suzuki

  Life, Opportunity, Everyday

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• Mysticism is: a. An advanced state of inner enlightenment. b. Union with Reality. c. A state of genuinely satisfying success. d. Insight into an entirely new world of living. e. An intuitive grasp of Truth, above and beyond intellectual reasoning. f. A personal experience, in which we are happy and healthy human beings.

  Vernon Howard

  Reality, Light, Healthy

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• Enlightenment is the inner light of wisdom that is permanently free from all mistaken appearance, and whose function is to bestow mental peace upon each and every living being every day.

  Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

  Light, Appearance, Function

  Geshe Kelsang Gyatso (2011). “Eight Steps to Happiness: The Buddhist Way of Loving Kindness”, p.253, Tharpa Publications US

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• Woman knowing this was not right but not knowing what else to do, developed the only means to fight for their survival that they had, since their survival was dependent upon men, and that was to use sexuality to survive.

  Frederick Lenz

  Women, Mean, Fighting

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• One of my purposes is to use the television show as a voice to not only entertain people, as I did in the beginning, but as a source of information, as a source of enlightenment, wherever we can, and also as a source of lifting people up wherever you can.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Voice, People, Information

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• There is no fundamental difference between the preparation for death and the practice of dying, and spiritual practice leading to enlightenment.

  Stanislav Grof

  Spiritual, Practice, Differences

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• Enlightenment has nothing to do with physical knowledge. It is the experience of existence. Existence is infinite. There are countless universes and creations taking place simultaneously.

  Frederick Lenz

  Infinite, Creation, Existence

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• It is about getting a sense of integrity about issues. That was was my enlightenment over it and knowing that I had a safe place to go to handle anything in life.

  John Travolta

  Integrity, Knowing, Issues

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• It can be made only when one recognizes the ground of being itself, when one recognizes directly that One is All.

  Amit Goswami

  Made

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• Enlightenment is man's emergence from his self-incurred immaturity.

  Immanuel Kant

  Men, Self, Immaturity

  Immanuel Kant, H. S. Reiss (1991). “Kant: Political Writings”, p.54, Cambridge University Press

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• Logic is the key to an all-inclusive spiritual well-being.

  Marlene Dietrich

  Spiritual, Keys, Logic

  Marlene Dietrich (2012). “Marlene”, p.35, Open Road Media

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• Those who really seek the path to Enlightenment dictate terms to their mind. Then they proceed with strong determination.

  Gautama Buddha

  Strong, Determination, Mind

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• Trying to find a buddha or enlightenment is like trying to grab space.

  Bodhidharma

  Space, Trying

  Bodhidharma (2009). “The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma”, p.9, Macmillan

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• You may have expected that enlightenment would come ZAP! instantaneous and permanent.This is unlikely.After the first ah ha expereince, it can be thougth of as a thinning of a layer of clouds.

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  Ram Dass

  Inspirational, Clouds, Layers

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• The Bible and several other self help or enlightenment books cite the Seven Deadly Sins. They are: pride, greed, lust, envy, wrath, sloth, and gluttony. That pretty much covers everything that we do, that is sinful... or fun for that matter.

  Dave Mustaine

  Fun, Book, Pride

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• Working with plants, trees, fences and walls, if they practice sincerely they will attain enlightenment.

  Dogen

  Wall, Practice, Tree

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• Not creating delusions is enlightenment.

  Bodhidharma

  Creating, Delusion

  Bodhidharma (2009). “The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma”, p.51, Macmillan

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• Great beauty, great strength, and great riches are really and truly of no great use; a right heart exceeds all

  Benjamin Franklin

  Heart, Use, Riches

  Benjamin Franklin (2008). “The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac”, p.20, Nayika Publishing

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