Enlightenment Quotes - Page 32

• Ultimately one must abandon the path to enlightenment. If you still define yourself as a Buddhist, you are not a buddha yet.

  Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse Rinpoche

  Buddhist, Self, Path

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• Studying the Buddha way is studying oneself. Studying oneself is forgetting oneself. Forgetting oneself is being enlightened by all things. Being enlightened by all things is to shed the body-mind of oneself, and those of others. No trace of enlightenment remains, and this traceless enlightenment continues endlessly.

  Dogen

  Self, Mind, Body

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• The light which puts out our eyes is darkness to us.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Eye, Light, Darkness

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Walden, and On the Duty of Civil Disobedience”, p.304, First Avenue Editions

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• Not a few patients, however, suffering from certain forms of mental disorder, regain a high degree of insight into their mental condition in what might be termed a flash of divine enlightenment.

  Clifford Whittingham Beers

  Suffering, Degrees, Might

  Clifford Whittingham Beers (2015). “A Mind That Found Itself”, p.61, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• Enlightenment is not something you achieve. It is the absence of something. All your life you have been going forward after something, pursuing some goal. Enlightenment is dropping all that.

  Joko Beck

  Goal, Absence, Achieve

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• There is no whit less enlightenment under the tree by your street than there was under the Buddha's bo tree. I invite you to go sit under that tree by your street.

  Annie Dillard

  Nature, Tree, Invites

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• To relate is to react. To react is to understand oneself. To understand oneself is to be enlightened. Relationships are schools for enlightenment.

  Anthony de Mello

  School, Awareness, Enlightened

  Anthony De Mello (2012). “Heart of the Enlightened: A Book of Story Meditations”, p.130, Image

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• The central ideas of Christianity, an angry God and vicarious atonement, are contrary to every fact in nature, as also to the better aspirations of the human heart; they are, in our present stage of enlightenment, absurd, preposterous, and blasphemous propositions.

  Virchand Gandhi

  Heart, Ideas, Facts

  "Christian Missions: A Triangular Debate, Before the Nineteenth Century Club of New York". The Monist: A Quarterly Magazine 5 (2), pp. 268-273, 1895.

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• Relaxation is the point. And if you can relax with an enlightened person his enlightenment will start penetrating you, because when you are relaxed you become porous. When you are tense you are closed; when you relax he will enter

  Rajneesh

  Inspiring, Relaxation, Enlightened

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• Enlightenment, don't know what it is. It's up to you, the way you think.

  Van Morrison

  Education, Thinking, Up To You

  Song: Enlightenment, Album: Enlightenment

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• The key to enlightenment lies in a secret that very few people have ever known, but which Jesus knew well. The way you will experience and feel about yourself is not determined by how other people look at and think about you.

  Gary Renard

  Jesus, Lying, Thinking

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• In Gnosticism, the physical world did not ultimately matter - which meant physical suffering did not matter either. Seeking 'enlightenment' meant cultivating an attitude of detachment, even indifference.

  Nancy Pearcey

  Attitude, Gnosticism, Suffering

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• When I was a kid growing up in the '60s, music was an outlet for enlightenment, frustration, rebellion. It was more about individualism. Today it's just like a big business.

  Joey Ramone

  Growing Up, Kids, Frustration

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• There are those who will seek to block you. There are also non-physical forces. To win in the world of enlightenment, it is necessary to be able to will away these forces, to see they're insubstantial.

  Frederick Lenz

  Block, Winning, World

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• The crown chakra is located several inches above the head, but it is not connected. The crown chakra, also known as the thousand-petal lotus of light, references the planes of light, of enlightenment.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Light, Lotuses

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• The thousand petal lotus of light, the crown center, really does not become operative until one is on the verge of enlightenment itself. Then you really don't have to meditate on it. The thousand petals gradually light up.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Light, Doe

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• Once you have personally experienced enlightenment, you will see beyond the ocean of death to the everlasting shores of immortality.

  Frederick Lenz

  Ocean, Hinduism, Immortality

  Frederick Lenz (1994). “Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap”, Interglobal Seminars

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• We live in a world of careers. Work, as Sri Krishna points out in the Bhagavad Gita, is a necessary path for everyone attaining enlightenment. It is something that we all do. Some people work very hard at not working.

  Frederick Lenz

  Careers, People, Gita

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• There's a source, there's a perennial source from which all things come forth. We call it the Godhead, Nirvana, the Tao, enlightenment. It's big; it's bright; it's perfect, as are all of its children, as are we.

  Frederick Lenz

  Children, Perfect, Tao

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• Consumer goods become enlightenment, relationships, anything! It doesn't really matter because infinity exists in everything. "Greater than the greatest, smaller than the smallest, the self dwells in the hearts of all," that is the Upanishads.

  Frederick Lenz

  Heart, Self, Matter

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• As a writer, I am an intellectual. I believe in the ideals of the Enlightenment, I believe in the written word, in dialogue and in truth. I hate lies more than anything else. Most of the time I react by writing.

  Henning Mankell

  Hate, Lying, Believe

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• Collective guilt is borne by what is conventionally called the scapegoat. Now the scapegoat for white society - which is based on myths of progress, civilization, liberalism, education, enlightenment, refinement - will be precisely the force that opposes the expansion and the triumph of these myths. This brutal opposing force is supplied by the Negro.

  Frantz Fanon

  Civilization, White, Guilt

  Frantz Fanon (1967). “Black Skin, White Masks”, p.194, Pluto Press

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• As Enlightenment philosophers and scholars consciously adopted the methods of science to establish such abstract concepts as rights, liberty, and justice, successive generations have become schooled in thinking of these abstractions as applied to others in matrices-like mental rotations.

  Michael Shermer

  Thinking, Rights, Justice

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• Without doubt machines will be able to determine the means and avenues to goals, but men will continue to set the goals themselves. For what machine can ever apply the considerations of compassion and justice which, as man's enlightenment spreads ... will enter ever more into the decisions that affect his future ... in the universe?

  Lewis Strauss

  Business, Mean, Men

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• The United States cannot reshape other countries in its own image and that, with a few exceptions, its efforts to police the world are neither in its interests nor within the scope of its resources. This whole tendency to see ourselves as the center of political enlightenment and as teachers to a great part of the rest of the world strikes me as unthought-through, vainglorious and undesirable.

  George F. Kennan

  Country, Teacher, America

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