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Enlightenment is very possible for the ordinary individual. Actually, it is easier than for someone who thinks that they are special.
It is equally easy, initially, for either a man or a woman to attain enlightenment, what we would call liberation or self-realization.
The 7 factors of enlightenment: mindfullness, investigation of mental objects, energy, joy, tranquility, concentration and equanimity.
When you get a new worldview you get a new world. It's like the shift from medieval Christianity to the Renaissance and enlightenment.
Understanding others is knowledge, Understanding oneself is enlightenment; Conquering others is power, Conquering oneself is strength.
The theories of the major philosophers of the 18th century secular enlightenment were biblical and theological in spite of themselves.
To me, the most important thing is to tell a good story. If I can do that, I think that enlightenment, respect of nature, etc. follows.
We need to learn that truth consists not in correct doctrine, but in correct doctrine plus the inward enlightenment of the Holy Spirit.
Sexual enlightenment is that hardhearted process which for hygienic reasons forbids young people to satisfy their curiosity themselves.
We practice to learn how to let go, not how to increase our holding on to things. Enlightenment appears when you stop wanting anything.
For men, it's necessary to push aside that marvelous ego that tells you that you are all knowing and capable, and see that you are not.
Art is never decoration, embellishment; instead, it is work of enlightenment. Art, in other words, is a technique for acquiring liberty.
What you focus on you become. So always focus on that which is highest, brightest, happiest and most noble of all things, enlightenment.
The problem is in the type of energy that is directed, either in the act of sex or simply walking down the street or talking to someone.
Contemporary defenders of the Enlightenment shouldn't overgeneralize: the Enlightenment, however it is defined, is not an unalloyed good.
Society needs to see science not as a luxury of funding but as a fundamental activity that drives enlightenment, economics, and security.
The Network of Enlightenment watches over a world and guides it, tenderly. Not interfering in its natural course of evolution is our way.
There is only one way of attaining liberation and of obtaining the omniscience of enlightenment: following an authentic spiritual master.
Enlightenment after all is to overcome delusion, by way of sensitizing practitioners to complexities and problems of the human situation.
That's the moment of enlightenment. That is the moment that you become for the first time an unconditioned, sane, really free human being.
The universe is endless. Enlightenment is endless. You have only touched the outer periphery of the endless still center of perfect being.
Live on berries in a hollowed-out comet lit by artificial suns long enough, and you start to have delusions about achieving enlightenment.
Power is the big obstacle, or one of them, that you have to overcome and learn to deal with effectively before you can reach enlightenment.
If her security rests upon her alliance with a man, another woman may take that man away; therefore women have no unity between themselves.
I still consider myself a liberal in the Enlightenment sense of the word. But I have to admit that being a liberal these days is confusing.
My idea of enlightenment is when ego and Tao are fused, and Tao is perceived as ego. Then everything happens with complete appropriateness.
Many women devlop the second attention, attract a great deal of sexual attention, and for many years, appear to be very vibrant and strong.
The moment something happens to one you love, it's twenty times more intense. You experience pain and enlightenment on a much vaster scale.
You're an emanation of enlightenment. Enlightenment, which is the universe, has created the hallucination that is you in a form that shifts.
They are denied access to the more advanced techniques of releasing the kundalini energy, which bring about quantum leaps in self-awareness.
Self-interest is hostile to the common good, but enlightened self-interest is not. And this is the best key to the meaning of enlightenment.
Any enlightenment which requires to be authenticated, certified, recognized, congratulated, is (as yet) a false, or at least incomplete one.
All those who slight me to my face, Or do me any other evil, Even if they blame or slander me, May they attain the fortune of enlightenment!
Anything that is created must sooner or later die. Enlightenment is permanent because we have not produced it; we have merely discovered it.
Spiritual knowledge is the experience of enlightenment, and requires an understanding of the inner-most workings of the enlightenment cycle.
Amputechture' is my personal way of describing enlightenment, or just the celebration of this person who is a shaman and not a crazy person.
Words are a human way of trying to describe things. But they're much more of interference than they are a help in the world of enlightenment.
It is possible to move to an enlightened state of mind from a lower bardo or level of awareness. It can happen, but it is extremely unlikely.
In the course of time one does not feel even the existence of God. After attaining enlightenment one sees that gods and deities are all Maya.
It is much easier for a woman to meditate than it is for men, innately. Their subtle physical bodies pick up the kundalini much more quickly.
Enlightenment remains unrealized so long as it is considered as a specific state to be attained, and for which there are standards of success.
In meditation you can erase the conditioning. But still, you have to fight the description of the world that everyone else is carrying around.
The dreams of eternity are the states of mind. When we wake up from the dreams there's only enlightenment. There could never be anything else.
Enlightenment is already there inside us and all things. All we have to do is get something out of the way that is causing us not to see that.
The nation no longer stands for the enlightenment tradition, but rather for military-political hegemony and the total commodification of life.
The state of ambiguity - that messy, greasy, mixed-up, confused, and awful situation you're living through right now - is enlightenment itself.
We've decided what we are. That's the dream. When the dream fades, it's not that we don't exist. How could we not exist since we never existed?
Life is not about focusing on the obstacles. It's about how you handle them, and whether you get enlightenment or levity from the way you do it
The left has come to regard common sense - the traditional wisdom and folkways of the community - as an obstacle to progress and enlightenment.
All souls do not reach enlightenment. Some souls reach a certain point and stay there. Some souls actually decline and go into different cycles.