There is no fundamental difference between the preparation for death and the practice of dying, and spiritual practice leading to enlightenment.
O Holy Spirit, descend plentifully into my heart. Enlighten the dark corners of this neglected dwelling and scatter there Thy cheerful beams.
This is the great object held out by this association; and the means of attaining it is illumination, enlightening the understanding by the sun of reason which will dispell the clouds of superstition and of prejudice.
It is only the enlightened ruler and the wise general who will use the highest intelligence of the army for the purposes of spying, and thereby they achieve great results.
My commitment to the security and future of Israel is based upon basic morality as well as enlightened self-interest. Our role in supporting Israel honors our own heritage.
I talk about a Christianity that is enlightened enough to separate spirituality from the rest of life. Not just church and state, but knowledge and church.
The more that social democracy develops, grows, and becomes stronger, the more the enlightened masses of workers will take their own destinies, the leadership of their movement, and the determination of its direction into their own hands.
If your environment isn't bringing out the best in you, then it's time to reposition yourself in a circle of ambitious enlightening minds.
You're looking for the light, Forgetting You have an astonishing light, inside you, which can enlighten the whole world.
Enlightenment, awakening or liberation can never be attained by seeking or desiring. It is realized only through experience.
You learn stuff from every character you play about the human condition that can be quite enlightening.
I think the Enlightenment is leading us into a dark hole, really.
Education is the light of our soul and joy of our life. We enlighten ourselves and the world with our education.
You have a light in your heart and that is your love, it can shine like a sun to enlighten the whole world.
the only thing worse than a bigot is an “ally” who can’t stop congratulating themselves on their enlightenment.
Rainer Wenger: So you don't think there could be another dictatorship in Germany? Jens: No, we are too enlightened now.
The writers of the French enlightenment had deliberately used blasphemy as a weapon, refusing to accept the power of the Church to set limiting points on thought.
The remedy for speech that is false is speech that is true. This is the ordinary course in a free society. The response to the unreasoned is the rational; to the uninformed, the enlightened; to the straight-out lie, the simple truth.
What is it in you that brings you to a spiritual teacher in the first place? It's not the spirit in you, since that is already enlightened, and has no need to seek. No, it is the ego in you that brings you to a teacher.
Enlightened spirit of the age is not the principal of life but a mirror that lets us see life through it's view.
Sometimes it's good to let people swim in ocean of ignorance and let them struggle to the shores of enlightenment.
