#enlightenment

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Ignorance has always been the weapon of tyrants; enlightenment the salvation of the free.


Bill Richardson


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Do not think you will necessarily be aware of your own enlightenment.


Dogen


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Just being the seeker, somebody whose open to spiritual enlightenment, is in itself the important thing and it's the reward for being a seeker in this world.


Walter Isaacson


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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


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The you that you think of as you (and that thinks of you as you, and so on) is not you, it’s just the character that the underlying truth of you is dreaming into existence. Enlightenment isn’t in the character, it’s in the underlying truth.


Jed McKenna


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Maybe it’s something which can’t be defined,” Enso Roshi says. “Maybe it’s a question, to be lived.


T. Scott McLeod


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I was tired in the evening yesterday. I felt drained by the last days outer conflicts. I felt separated from life. Suddenly I heard the wind blowing through the trees outside my open window, whispering a silent and playful invitation: "Do you want to play? Do you want to join the dance?" This playful invitation again joined my heart and being with the Existential dance. I was again in a silent prayer and oneness with life.


Swami Dhyan Giten


#existence #god #life #meditation #one-with-life

If you would listen, sir, in the sense of being aware of your conflicts and contradictions without forcing them into any particular pattern of thought, perhaps they might altogether cease.


Jiddu Krishnamurti


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Enlightenment means taking full responsibility for your life.


William Blake


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Sometimes in the quest for enlightenment the only thing that gets lighter is your wallet.


Steve Maraboli


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