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People get very deep experiences and they think they're enlightened. That's not enlightenment, that's just some realization.
Ultimately one must abandon the path to enlightenment. If you still define yourself as a Buddhist, you are not a buddha yet.
From the highest state of mind you have a window whereby you could perhaps move beyond all states of mind, to enlightenment.
If there isn't an emanation of love and joy, complete presence and openness toward all beings, then it is not enlightenment.
Enlightenment is the ability to freely transact within the ten thousand states of mind without a continuous self or awareness
Paradoxically, the more deeply one grows in enlightenment, the more clearly one discerns one's own frailties and limitations.
Christianity and Judaism have gone through the laundromat of humanism and enlightenment, but that is not the case with Islam.
Enlightenment is just the beginning, later on come other skills . . . patience, a forgiving nature, extreme attention . . . .
Sometimes it takes more courage not to let yourself see. Sometimes knowledge is damaging - not enlightenment but enleadenment.
Have the courage to use your own reason- That is the motto of enlightenment. "Foundations of the Metaphysics of Morals" (1785)
Ultimately, education in its real sense is the pursuit of truth. It is an endless journey through knowledge and enlightenment.
It is not after we understand the truth that we attain enlightenment. To realize the truth is to live - to exist here and now.
The limits on your enlightenment come not from the age you stopped going to school but from the age you stopped being curious.
What does God really look like stripped naked? That's the province of enlightenment...the formless, perfect face of existence.
What is male and female? Is it just a physical condition? No. The energy runs very, very differently in a woman than in a man.
WHETHER BEINGS LOVE ME OR FEAR ME IS IRRELEVANT. IF BEINGS GIVE ME THEIR ATTENTION I WILL TAKE THEM TO ENLIGHTENMENT AND BLISS.
The process of eliminating the samskaras and reaching complete enlightenment is very technical, wonderful, and mystical process.
Your time has a limit set to it. Use it, then, to advance your enlightenment; or it will be gone, and never in your power again.
Freedom of speech and of the press are essential to the enlightenment of a free people and in restraining those who wield power.
Knowing others is wisdom; Knowing the self is enlightenment; Mastering others requires force; Mastering the self needs strength.
"Don't talk about enlightenment," Buddha would say. He was saying don't talk about the nagual. He'd talk about how to get to it.
Meditate on enlightenment. Read the exploits of the great teachers, the great saints. They'll inspire you. Their power is there.
To start from the self and try to understand all things is delusion. To let the self be awakened by all things is enlightenment.
Most enlightened people can do miracles. Some have powers, some don't. Some people who have developed powers aren't enlightened.
The problem is that the Enlightenment dream may make too many demands on poor African apes like us. We may just not be up to it.
Some souls attain enlightenment. No one knows why. You could say it is individual inclination. I'm not convinced that's the case.
The process of philosophic and scientific enlightenment has shaken the stability of beliefs held explicitly as articles of faith.
She'll find rapid deterioration, which is particularly noticeable in the skin.This is the sign that the subtle physcial is aging.
It's wrong to look at what we call 'Enlightenment values' as some fad of the 18th century. It's deeply rooted in ancient history.
The sexual energies returned, when they're not evolved, are still linked with violence and the fear of power - the fear of women.
So in the world of Enlightenment, things are just things, except they're not things. We're in nirvana. There is no debating team.
It would be exciting to take part in what we now call the Enlightenment at the end of the 18th century, but with modern dentistry.
Consider a very natural process, menstruation, and how the association has been created in which this process is dirty, degrading.
We can't say what enlightenment is, we can't say what it isn't, because these are words and words have nothing to do with reality.
When a man becomes a writer, I think he takes on a sacred obligation to produce beauty and enlightenment and comfort at top speed.
It's one thing to have the attitude of enlightenment and another thing to act in an enlightened way, which is conduct or activity.
I think Enlightenment as an epistemic ideal involves rejecting the appeal to a fundamental stratum of non-conceptual self-evidence.
Many (Christians) have zeal without knowledge, enthusiasm without enlightenment. In more modern jargon, they are keen but clueless.
Christianity and Judaism have gone through the process of enlightenment, making them creative and constructive elements in society.
Enlightenment is a lot like dying. You might wonder why there aren't more enlightened people. It is because they are afraid to die.
These energies when directed towards the subtle physical body cause the subtle physical body to break down, to lose its lumonisity.
Once you have personally experienced enlightenment, you will see beyond the ocean of death to the everlasting shores of immortality.
Flawed as they may be, science and the secular Enlightenment values expressed in Western democracies are our best hope for survival.
It's good to bear in mind that like it or not, enlightenment has always been, even in a golden age, pretty much limited to an elite.
The approach is that the best way to use unwanted circumstances on the path of enlightenment is not to resist but to lean into them.
Enlightenment, meditation is really a shift in perception. It's not a thing that you go and do or become, since you're already that.
Enlightenment is an ocean of awareness that slides through the human part of us and dissolves it, and leaves us forever in eternity.
Modernity, the child of the Enlightenment, failed when it became apparent that the good society cannot be achieved by unaided reason.
The real pleasure,the real peace, the real enlightenment is to give. The more you give the more you get. If you give 10, you get 100.
The French Revolution actualised the Enlightenment's greatest intellectual breakthrough: detaching the political from the theocratic.