Best 2099 quotes in «enlightenment quotes» category

Maybe that’s enlightenment enough: to know that there is no final resting place of the mind; no moment of smug clarity. Perhaps wisdom...is realizing how small I am, and unwise, and how far I have yet to go. -Anthony Bourdain

Meditate on enlightenment. Read the exploits of the great teachers, the great saints. They'll inspire you. Their power is there.

Meditation erases conditioning. It allows a person to channel the kundalini energy through their subtle physical body and reach enlightened states of awareness.

Meditation is the quickest path to enlightenment.

Men have reacted very negatively to the power that is inherent in women.

Men have learned the secret of unity.

Modernity, the child of the Enlightenment, failed when it became apparent that the good society cannot be achieved by unaided reason.

Mom takes all the credit for my success. Now Mom says, 'I read your face when you were a baby, and it said you were going to be a star. That's why I named you Ming - because it's all about the sun and the stars and enlightenment.'

Morality can muddle mystical understanding and virtue is only necessary in so far as it favours success. All wisdom must be encompassed in order to achieve enlightenment.

Most of the founding fathers, sympathetic with and influenced by the European Enlightenment, saw religion - natural religion, that is - as a potential good, but with equal clarity they saw the religions of existing institutions and religions based on a fixed scriptural revelation as meddlesome, wrong-headed and hopelessly obsolete.

Much of the time your attention is directed towards the world of sexuality, it's done through the second attention of a woman - not simply in your physical presence but from thousands of miles away.

Men, through the ideas they have, project a field of attention that limits women.

My "drop in the ocean" will contribute to the enlightenment of Europe, so to speak.

My favorite cause is the enlightenment of others. I think that is the best place to put money. You get the highest yield in terms of karma on your money.

My idea of enlightenment is when ego and Tao are fused, and Tao is perceived as ego. Then everything happens with complete appropriateness.

Neither my life of luxury in the palace -nor- my life as ascetic in the forest were ways to enlightenment.

Nirvana and enlightenment exist just on the other side of your sensory perceptions and your thoughts.

Nirvana is very funny. It's not sincere particularly. It's rather frivolous, actually.

No one's life is totally morbid. Even on a subtle scale there's little flashes of enlightenment and of happiness and joy.

No self-effort in the direction of enlightenment is ever wasted. Even if you don't become fully enlightened in a given lifetime, you will be much happier and more aware.

No true search for enlightenment ignores the suffering of other sentient beings. Ever. We simply need to create a way to address that suffering while remaining in a blissful center.

Once you get to the Enlightenment, the way that powers get to be hyperpowers isn't just by conquest. It's through commerce and innovation. Societies like the Dutch Republic and the United States used tolerance to become a magnet for enterprising immigrants.

Once you have mastered the ten thousand states of mind, it's paranirvana, the absorption into the stillness forever.

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

One evening you may learn about enlightenment, koans, meditation and personal power.

Men fearing their innate power, pushed woman back into slavery.

Nonresistance, nonjudgment, and nonattachment are the three aspects of true freedom and enlightened living.

No one who has lived even for a fleeting moment for something other than life in its conventional sense and has experienced the exaltation that this feeling produces can then renounce his new freedom so easily.

No single step in the persuit of enlightenment should ever be considered sacred; only the search was.

Nothing ever exists entirely alone; everything is in relation to everythiong else.

One of the Age of Enlightenment's most hypnotic images is Ledoux's rendering of his neoclassical theater of 1775 - 1784 in Besancon, surreally reflected in the colossal eye of an unidentified cosmic being.

One should study the Bible alongside other intellectual traditions - such as British constitutionalism, Enlightenment liberalism, and classical republicanism - in order to truly understand the American founding.

Only until you rise above the use of the second attention for manipulation that you can enter into a consciousness in which there is enlightenment.

On the pathway that leads to enlightenment, only your heart can tell you what is right.

Our freedoms were born in the ideals of the Enlightenment and the musket fires of an historic revolution.

Our public monuments are memorials to the Enlightenment.

Once we've achieved perfect meditation, we're terribly trapped because that's an illusion...any enlightenment that seems ultimate is an illusion.

Paradoxically, the more deeply one grows in enlightenment, the more clearly one discerns one's own frailties and limitations.

Peace can only come as a natural consequence of universal enlightenment.

People always say, 'A good man is hard to find.' You've never heard that about women, have you?

People get very deep experiences and they think they're enlightened. That's not enlightenment, that's just some realization.

People imagine enlightenment will make them incredibly powerful. And it does. It makes you the most powerful being in all the universe- but usually no one else notices.

People think that if you are enlightened you are not in touch with the pulse of the physical. Au contraire! The higher you go, the deeper you become, and the more conscious you are of the physical and the sensorial.

Perhaps enlightenment, technology and secularism haven't cleared Europe of the oldest science of all - the occult.

Perhaps the most concise summary of enlightenment would be: transcending dualism . ... Dualism is the conceptual division of the world into categories ... human perception is by nature a dualistic phenomenon - which makes the quest for enlightenment an uphill struggle, to say the least.

Personal power is a feeling that everybody is looking for called satisfaction. It is different from enlightenment, but you need personal power to become enlightened. Personal power is not the end of the process.

Personal power is the reflection of a person of knowledge. A person of knowledge, an enlightened person, a person even close to enlightenment, has a great deal of personal power.

poems are small moments of enlightenment

Selectively pick a teacher, one that you respect, not just someone who can talk with wonderful poetic figures about enlightenment, but someone who has the personal power to bring you into altered states of awareness.

Self-interest is hostile to the common good, but enlightened self-interest is not. And this is the best key to the meaning of enlightenment.