Enlightenment Quotes

• Kung fu was made so the monks could train their bodies and move their bodies with strength, so they could be physical enough to gain mental enlightenment. Before that, they kept falling asleep when [masters] were trying to teach them.

  

  Robert Fitzgerald Diggs Achozen
  • Trying
  • Fall
  • Moving

• Borrowing knowledge of reality from all sources, taking the best from every study, Science of Mind brings together the highest enlightenment of the ages.

  

  Ernest Holmes
  • Science
  • Reality
  • Knowledge

• The Zen of doing anything is doing it with a particular concentration of mind, a calmness and simplicity of mind, that brings the experience of enlightenment and, through that experience, happiness.

  

  Chris Prentiss
  • Mind
  • Enlightenment
  • Concentration

• The religious wars showed that the Christian faith was no longer Europe's unifying force. A new common ground was needed, and it was found in reason, which is something that is shared by all of mankind. This was one of the roots of the Enlightenment and its concept of universal human rights.

  

  Walter Kasper
  • Religious
  • Common
  • Ground

• Yoga practice seems to be used to access some deeper dimension or some enlightened state. Understand right now there is no connection between flexibility and enlightenment.

  

  Bryan Kest
  • Enlightenment
  • Access
  • Yoga Practice

• Enlightenment is the Goal – Love is the Game – Taking steps are the rules!

  

  Alan Rufus
  • Love
  • Game
  • Goal

• Christianity and Judaism have gone through the process of enlightenment, making them creative and constructive elements in society.

  

  Pim Fortuyn
  • Society
  • Enlightenment

• Each river is different, but they all eventually lead to the ocean. No matter what we’re doing or when, or whether it brings us happiness or remorse, gain or loss, we’re all on our individual paths to enlightenment. Even when we’ve done something we consider wrong, we’re still on our path to enlightenment.

  

  Chris Prentiss
  • Ocean
  • River
  • Lead

• Culture is the greatest barrier to your enlightenment, your education, and your decency.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Culture
  • Barriers
  • Decency

• God will not let me get the blessing without asking. Today I am setting my face to fast and pray for enlightenment and refreshing. Until I can get up to the measure of at least two hours in pure prayer every day, I shall not be contented. Meditation and reading besides.

  

  Bonar Law
  • God
  • Prayer
  • Meditation

• I don't believe that human beings can achieve ultimate enlightenment, because humans have flaws.

  

  Tiger Woods
  • Human Beings
  • Enlightenment

• People mistakenly think that art is about nature, or about an artists feelings about nature. It is instead a path of enlightenment and pleasure, one of many paths, where nature and the artists feelings are merely raw material.

  

  Wolf Kahn
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Pleasure

• If we remove ourselves from the world, we are pretending that we can follow our own individual enlightenment and let the rest of the world go to hell, so to speak.

  

  Satish Kumar
  • World
  • Speak
  • Individual

• Western theology invariably asks the question: Are miracles possible? This of course addresses the Enlightenment problem of a closed universe. In much of Asia that is a non-question because the miraculous is assumed and fairly regularly experienced.

  

  Craig S. Keener
  • Question
  • Miracles
  • Theology

• Dreams are large possessions ... they are an expansion of life, an enlightenment, and a discipline. I thank God for my dream life; my daily life would be far poorer, if it wanted the second sight of dreams.

  

  Amelia Barr
  • Dream
  • Discipline
  • Possession

• There's also something that is often mistaken for enlightenment which is a kind of insanity. Often, people will have some kind of weird experience which is quite abnormal and think, "Oh my God, that's it, I understand everything" because they start seeing things in a very weird way and think that's how enlightened people see things as well.

  

  Brad Warner
  • Experience
  • Seeing
  • Insanity

• Before enlightenment; chop wood, carry water. After enlightenment; chop wood, carry water.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Water
  • Enlightenment
  • Wood

• The only real revolution is in the enlightenment of the mind and the improvement of character, the only real emancipation is individual, and the only real revolutionists are philosophers and saints.

  

  Will Durant
  • Character
  • Revolution
  • Saints

• Enlightenment is a group activity.

  

  Charles Eisenstein
  • Activity
  • Groups
  • Enlightenment

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