Enlightenment Quotes - Page 4

The enlightened attention rejects nothing nor welcomes anything-like a mirror it responds equally to all.

Liberals have a set of folk theories that are fallacious. One of them comes from the Enlightenment, and the assumption is that you are supposed to be logical. They assume all you have to do is tell people the facts and they will reason to the right conclusion. This is utterly ridiculous. Thought is mainly metaphorical. The frames trump all the facts.

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

Enlightenment is any experience of expanding our consciousness beyond its present limits.

We look for the Secret - the Philosopher's Stone, the Elixir of the Wise, Supreme Enlightenment, 'God' or whatever...and all the time it is carrying us about...It is the human nervous system itself.

There is no enlightenment outside of daily life.

A man searching for enlightenment is like a man sitting on an Ass in search of an Ass

Protecting the weak is the first step to enlightenment and being truly civilized.

Really, the only thing that makes sense is to strive for greater collective enlightenment.

Do not think you will necessarily be aware of your own enlightenment.

When we must deal with problems, we instinctively resist trying the way that leads through obscurity and darkness. We wish to hear only of unequivocal results, and completely forget that these results can only be brought about when we have ventured into and emerged again from the darkness. But to penetrate the darkness we must summon all the powers of enlightenment that consciousness can offer.

Enlightenment is always there. Small enlightenment will bring great enlightenment. If you breathe in and are aware that you are alive - that you can touch the miracle of being alive - then that is a kind of enlightenment.

You are here for no other purpose than to realize your inner divinity and manifest your inner enlightenment.

The process of education takes place in the field of consciousness; the prerequisite to complete education is therefore the full development of consciousness - enlightenment. Knowledge is not the basis of enlightenment, enlightenment is the basis of knowledge.

Many (Christians) have zeal without knowledge, enthusiasm without enlightenment. In more modern jargon, they are keen but clueless.

It shouldn't matter what anyone else thinks. Life is not easy. The road to happiness is not a path well trotted. You have to find your own path to enlightenment.

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

There are two obstacles to enlightenment: 1. Thinking you know. 2 Thinking you don't know.

Since it is the practice of enlightenment, that practice has no beginning and since it is enlightenment within the practice, that realization has no end.

Not creating delusions is enlightenment.

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

Every day is a new opportunity to work with what you have inside toward enlightenment.

Enlightenment doesn't mean we were never wounded; it means we've found a way to evolve beyond our wounds. Enlightenment isn't idealistic; it's practical. What's idealistic is thinking we can live from our wounds, stay in our weakness, and ever transform the world.

The theories of the major philosophers of the 18th century secular enlightenment were biblical and theological in spite of themselves.

I gained nothing at all from Supreme Enlightenment, and for that very reason it is called Supreme Enlightenment.