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The road to enlightenment is long and difficult, and you should try not to forget snacks and magazines.
Through meditative techniques, one can free the mind of delusions and attain what we call enlightenment.
Anybody or anything can become enlightened because enlightenment is the very nature of existence itself.
What is enlightenment, anyway? I don't know if I can really put it into words, perhaps you can. I can't.
Working with plants, trees, fences and walls, if they practice sincerely they will attain enlightenment.
Your very own sister may take your husband away and your husband may be the ticket for economic survival.
To nobody can you communicate in words and teachings, what happened to you in your hour of enlightenment.
The enlightened attention rejects nothing nor welcomes anything-like a mirror it responds equally to all.
I'd been busy, busy, so busy, preparing for life, while life floated by me, quiet and swift as a regatta.
Even though it's not perceivable to the mind or senses, it's there and enlightenment is absolute freedom.
Taking refuge means that you align and orient your life toward Buddha's example and toward enlightenment.
Our freedoms were born in the ideals of the Enlightenment and the musket fires of an historic revolution.
They have rejected that power and sought to convince women of the exact opposite, that they are powerless.
Enlightenment says the world is nothing Nothing but a dream, everything's an illusion And nothing is real.
The greatest obstacle to enlightenment is getting past your delusion that you are not already enlightened.
Do not cling to anything, to any idea; because clinging is the bondage, even to the idea of enlightenment.
Neither my life of luxury in the palace -nor- my life as ascetic in the forest were ways to enlightenment.
Enlightenment does not ask you to be perfect; it simply asks you to find perfection right where you stand.
I think the degree of a nation's civilisation may be measured by the degree of enlightenment of its women.
I'm a creature of the eighteenth century at heart: The Enlightenment and the search for happiness suit me.
Enlightenment is not a finite state. It's not something that you just do and it's done. It goes on forever.
By any reasonable measure of achievement, the faith of the Enlightenment thinkers in science was justified.
They [zealots] would have everybody be as blind as themselves: to them, to be clear-sighted is libertinism.
Three hundred years ago, during the Age of Enlightenment, the coffee house became the center of innovation.
Nonresistance, nonjudgment, and nonattachment are the three aspects of true freedom and enlightened living.
Care, but don't be pushy! Don't preach about enlightenment to people who don't really want to hear about it.
Enlightenment values of individual freedom are manifested best in individual acts of criticism and defiance.
Europe and the world are waiting for us to defend the spirit of Enlightenment, threatened in so many places.
You British plundered half the world for your own profit. Let's not pass it off as the Age of Enlightenment.
The last thing we should do is allow ourselves to be infantilized by a counterfeit version of enlightenment.
You are here for no other purpose than to realize your inner divinity and manifest your inner enlightenment.
Enlightenment is a journey. It is a journey that is made alone. It is a journey that is made with a teacher.
Sex does drain a certain amount of your occult energy. But that really has nothing to do with enlightenment.
I have not in this lifetime yet met one person who earnestly seeks enlightenment in the West. Not one person.
Libertarian socialism is properly to be regarded as the inheritor of the liberal ideals of the Enlightenment.
The only time and place to find enlightenment is in this moment. No need to check your watch. The time is now.
Great beauty, great strength, and great riches are really and truly of no great use; a right heart exceeds all
Enlightenment is its own reward, its own punishment. You begin to see so much more. And so much more sees you.
Before enlightenment, chopping wood and carrying water. After enlightenment, chopping wood and carrying water.
Women have allowed you to think that, which is a part of their inaccessibility in using their second attention.
You think that enlightenment is something other than what is happening right now. This is your primary mistake.
The progress of human enlightenment can go no further than in picturing people not as vicious, but as mistaken.
If you see the illusion you are enlightened, but if you think that you are enlightened you are in the illusion!
The Bible has been used as a way of making us accept our situation, and not to bring enlightenment to the poor.
Become an alchemist. Transmute base metal into gold, suffering into consciousness, disaster into enlightenment.
The Enlightenment ideal, which all universities claim to endorse, is that everyone should think for themselves.
I gained nothing at all from Supreme Enlightenment, and for that very reason it is called Supreme Enlightenment.
Enlightenment or awakening is not the creation of a new state of affairs but the recognition of what already is.
So the single most vital step on your journey towards enlightenment is this: learn to disidentify from your mind.
Tantric Zen is the awareness of the infinitude of all things. To gain that awareness, to be it, is enlightenment.