The Enlightenment Quotes
The Enlightenment has always aimed at liberating men from fear and establishing their sovereignty. Yet the fully enlightened earth radiates disaster triumphant.
It is not the simple statement of facts that ushers in freedom; it is the constant repetition of them that has this liberating effect. Tolerance is the result not of enlightenment, but of boredom.
When there is no thought in the mind, no thought of thought, when the mind is quiet but fully alert, we experience a little bit of enlightenment.
If we really prefer basic sanity or enlightenment, it's irritatingly possible to get into it.
Enlightenment is x-rated, honey; if you haven't checked it out. It's hot, it's vivacious. You're going to take your mind and merge it with the entire cosmos.
Enlightenment is not meant to be an object of religious faith. It is an evolutionary goal, something we want to become.
Enlightenment is simply sanity~ the sanity in which I see my real situation in the living fabric of all that exists.
A haiku is the expression of a temporary enlightenment, in which we see into the life of things.
The nation no longer stands for the enlightenment tradition, but rather for military-political hegemony and the total commodification of life.
If there's any possibility for enlightenment, it's right now, not at some future time. Now is the time.
Enlightenment is freedom, the thought of enlightenment is prison. The truth exists in the moment. If we´re anywhere else, seeking something outside of the moment, we´re in prison.
Enlightenment is its own reward, its own punishment. You begin to see so much more. And so much more sees you.
Seeing the small is called Clarity. Keeping flexible is called Strength. Using the shining Radiance, You enter the Light, Where no harm can come to you. This is called Enlightenment.
Trees are good for contemplation. Plato and Aristotle did their best thinking in the groves of olives and figs around Athens, and Buddha found enlightenment beneath a bo or peepul tree.
Zen approaches it from the practical side of life-that is, to work out Enlightenment in life itself.
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.
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.
The goal of society in general is to succeed in the world, whereas the goal of enlightenment is to transcend beyond it.
I do not in the least underestimate bisexuality... I expect it to provide all further enlightenment.
Since life is but a continuous series of experiences, everything ultimately helps me towards my final enlightenment.
A fully blossomed human potential is enlightenment. It is becoming a child again, and coming back to your original nature.
Enlightenment is the liberation of man from his self-caused state of minority... Supere aude! Dare to use your own understanding!is thus the motto of the Enlightenment.
It is not easy to convey, unless one has experienced it, the dramatic feeling of sudden enlightenment that floods the mind when the right idea finally clinches into place.
Enlightenment is not about becoming divine. Instead it's about becoming more fully human. . . . It is the end of ignorance.
I have made a vow to attain Enlightenment in the female form - no matter how many lifetimes it takes.
There is an emergent enlightenment appearing today, unique to no particular culture or ethnicity. Anyone who chooses to be, is its conduit.
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!
Similitude of the heart is like that of a telephone operator between man and God.
Our society is the product of several great religious and philosophical traditions. The ideas of the Greeks and Romans, Christianity, Judaism, humanism and the Enlightenment have made us who we are.
Secular humanism proposes ... the complete implementation of the agenda of modernism ... what is necessary for it to occur is a ... New Enlightenment.
The sublimated idealism of the Enlightenment, the spirit of the League of Nations and of the United Nations Charter have not proved strong enough to control the aggressive dynamism of nationalism.
Art almost always has its ingredient of impudence, its flouting of established authority, so that it may substitute its own authority and its own enlightenment.
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.
Good humor and enthusiasm should be the sunshine ahead that will keep that shadow behind.
It's one thing to have the attitude of enlightenment and another thing to act in an enlightened way, which is conduct or activity.
The pathway to enlightenment is beautiful. There are a lot of wonderful things that happen along the way. Win or lose, you just keep going, and it happens eventually.
Modernity, the child of the Enlightenment, failed when it became apparent that the good society cannot be achieved by unaided reason.
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.
Enlightenment is just the beginning, later on come other skills . . . patience, a forgiving nature, extreme attention . . . .
An enlightened person does not ignore things and does not stick to things, not even to the truth.