Best 2099 quotes in «enlightenment quotes» category

For all the tribulations in our lives, for all the troubles that remain in the world, the decline of violence is an accomplishment that we can savor - and an impetus to cherish the forces of civilization and enlightenment that made it possible.

Forget about enlightenment. Sit down wherever you are. And listen to the wind singing in your veins.

For with all our pretension to enlightenment, are we not now a talking, desultory, rather than a meditative generation?

For each inclosed spirit is a star Enlightening his own little sphere

For the first time, we live in a society that shows any sign of the possibility of women changing this condition.

Freedom is not a luxury that we can indulge in when at last we have security and prosperity and enlightenment; it is, rather, antecedent to all of these, for without it we can have neither security nor prosperity nor enlightenment.

From the highest state of mind you have a window whereby you could perhaps move beyond all states of mind, to enlightenment.

Foster peace in your own life and then apply the Art to all that you encounter.

From the point of view of enlightenment, none of this has ever even been. All time and space, all the conditions that are apparent in the absence of enlightenment are unreal.

Gain is delusion; loss is enlightenment.

Further, if Spirit has any meaning at all, then it must be eternal, or without beginning or end. If Spirit had a beginning in time, then it would be strictly temporal, it would not be timeless and eternal. And this means, as regards your own awareness, that you cannot become enlightened. You cannot attain enlightenment. If you could attain enlightenment, then that state would have a beginning in time, and so it would not be true enlightenment.

Go beyond reason to love - it is safe. It is the only safety. Love all you can, and when you are ready all will be shown to you. The state of mind that most needs enlightenment is the one that sees human beings as needing to be guided or enlightened. The sin that most needs to be loved and forgiven is the state of mind that sees human beings as sinners.

God is seen as a male whose first creation was another man, Adam, whom we are told was made in his image and likeness.

God is your very being. So the first thing is, don't think about enlightenment as a goal.

Good humor and enthusiasm should be the sunshine ahead that will keep that shadow behind.

God then made the first woman, not directly out of his own substance, but from Adam's rib. Her purpose was to serve man.

Greed for enlightenment and immortality is no different than greed for material wealth. It is self-centered and dualistic, and thus an obstacle to true attainment. Therefore these states are never achieved by those who covet them; rather, they are the reward of the virtuous.

Freedom of speech and of the press are essential to the enlightenment of a free people and in restraining those who wield power.

History shows that our way of life is the stronger way. From it has come more wealth, more industry, more happiness, more human enlightenment than from any other way.

Have the courage to use your own reason- That is the motto of enlightenment. "Foundations of the Metaphysics of Morals" (1785)

I am who I am who I am who am I Requesting some enlightenment Could I have been anyone other than me?

I am a humble adherent of...Enlightenment Rationalist Fundamentalism.

I can understand pathways to enlightenment where people shun certain aspects of the sensual world because they feel that these aspects are very powerful; they're not in a position to control their appetites.

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.

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

I came to the conclusion that we should aspire to increase the scope and scale of human consciousness in order to better understand what questions to ask. Really, the only thing that makes sense is to strive for greater collective enlightenment.

I don't believe that human beings can achieve ultimate enlightenment, because humans have flaws.

I don't even think much about politicians. I think about the people in the audience who applaud the politicians. They are your fellow countrymen and they're the ones you live with - that should be who we target for education and enlightenment.

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

I don't personally believe in an arrived state of enlightenment. I feel that being human is a constant practice of return. We have moments of clarity, and then we're confused. We have incredibly sensitive periods of being awake, and then we're numb. Being human is a very universal and a very personal practice of learning how to return when we can't get access to what we know.

I don't want enlightenment, I want him. Sorry Buddha, I loved him more than you.

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

If global extinction is to be avoided, woman must unite and come to terms with their destiny.

I don't feel that men have been wrong. I don't feel that women are wrong for using their second attention to combat sexual repression. That's just how it's been.

If even one woman in the West were to become enlightened, it would change karmas on this planet.

If her security rests upon her alliance with a man, another woman may take that man away; therefore women have no unity between themselves.

If there isn't an emanation of love and joy, complete presence and openness toward all beings, then it is not enlightenment.

I don't work with men who are antagonistic to the liberation of women. I do work with quite a number of men who are supportive of the enlightenment of women. Such men are rare.

If I could define enlightenment briefly I would say it is 'the quiet acceptance of what is'.

If it's not true love, then that energy will gradually wear the subtle physical down.

If we remove ourselves from the world, we are pretending that we can follow our own individual enlightenment and let the rest of the world go to hell, so to speak.

If western culture is shown to be rich it is because, even before the Enlightenment, it has tried to "dissolve" harmful simplifications through inquiry and the critical mind.

If you are liberated then you can be in the crowd and there is no crowd. You can be surrounded by the world and their is no world. You have shattered the prism of illusion.

If you are going to experience the ecstasy of enlightenment, it is not just going to be a phrase. You've got to work during meditation. So back to the navel center!

If you come across an insane person who's talking gibberish, you can't make any sense of it at all and that would be one way that enlightenment is different. If you read Dogen, a lot of his stuff is very strange and is coming from a different place than what we're used to, but at the same time, it's not senseless ramblings and that's part of what attracted me to Dogen. I didn't get it, but it was sane. It's not some guy raving about UFO's or Moses living in his bathtub, it's was actually something sane that I just didn't get, if that makes sense?

If you have a powerful enlightenment experience, do not try to hold on to it, for to do so will take you out of the present moment. You will be caught in the past. You will close the door that gave rise to the experience in the first place.

If you have attained something, this is the surest proof that you have gone astray. Therefore, not to have is to have, silence is thunder, ignorance is enlightenment.

If there's any possibility for enlightenment, it's right now, not at some future time. Now is the time.

If you see the illusion you are enlightened, but if you think that you are enlightened you are in the illusion!

Ignorance has always been the weapon of tyrants; enlightenment the salvation of the free.