Quotes of: Enlightenment Keyword

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.

Thich Nhat Hanh

Many people, through diverse spiritual practices and disciplines have sought enlightenment. Various phenomena, some of them potentially quite captivating, may occur along the path of spiritual development whether it leads to true enlightenment or not...

Change: Realizing Your Greatest Potential

It is an unfortunate fact that proofs can be very misleading. Proofs exist to establish once and for all, according to very high standards, that certain mathematical statements are irrefutable facts. What is unfortunate about this is that a proof, in...

Foundations of Analysis: The Theory of Limits

Being enlightened ironically means realizing that there is no separate entity that can be enlightened or unenlightened.

Enza Vita

Enlightenment is a paradoxical phenomenon. You need to be commited to become enlightenment, and to do whatever is necessary to make it happen. But at the same time you can not force enlightenment to happen by sheer will. It is like the situation with...

Presence - Working from Within. The Psychology of Being

Patience is the direct antithesis of anger.

Pocket Peace: Effective Practices for Enlightened Living

One can be enlightened about proofs as well as theorems. Without enlightenment, one is merely reduced to memorizing proofs. With enlightenment about a proof, its flow becomes clear and it can become an item of astonishing beauty. In addition, the nee...

Foundations of Analysis: The Theory of Limits

But only he who, himself enlightened, is not afraid of shadows.

An Answer to the Question: What Is Enlightenment?

Movies can be instruments of enlightenment.

Marianne Williamson

Do not speak about anyone who is not physically present.

Pocket Peace: Effective Practices for Enlightened Living

Israel's monomaniacal Spinoza worship is amusing and exasperating by turns. For a start, his insistence that Spinoza was the singular font of the Enlightenment leaves him without a story of the Enlightenment's intellectual or cultural origins. Every ...

Samuel Moyn

The Enlightenment may have made its most lasting impact in the way we live and think today through its social history. Our institutions and laws, our conception of the state, and our political sensitivity all stem from Enlightenment ideas… Remarkab...

Louis Dupré

Accepting the reality of change gives rise to equanimity.

Pocket Peace: Effective Practices for Enlightened Living

One doesn't have to be religious to lead a moral life or attain wisdom.

Pocket Peace: Effective Practices for Enlightened Living

Education leads to enlightenment. Enlightenment opens the way to empathy. Empathy foreshadows reform.

Faces At The Bottom Of The Well: The Permanence Of Racism

Whatever it takes to break your heart and wake you up is grace.

Sex Death Enlightenment: A True Story

Suffering usually relates to wanting things to be different from the way they are.

Pocket Peace: Effective Practices for Enlightened Living

The practice of lovingkindness can uplift us & relieve sorrow & unhappiness.

Pocket Peace: Effective Practices for Enlightened Living

Our greatest happiness comes from the experience of love & compassion.

Pocket Peace: Effective Practices for Enlightened Living

Don't believe everything you think. Thoughts are just that - thoughts.

Pocket Peace: Effective Practices for Enlightened Living

Sex is the alpha and enlightenment is the omega. Sex is the first step of the spiritual journey, and enlightenment is the last step of the spiritual journey.

Swami Dhyan Giten