#enlightenment

I think the Enlightenment is leading us into a dark hole, really. ↗

— David Hockney

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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

#best #borrowing #brings #enlightenment #every

Many spiritual teachers - in Buddhism, in Islam - have talked about first-hand experience of the world as an important part of the path to wisdom, to enlightenment. ↗

— Bell Hooks

#buddhism #enlightenment #experience #first-hand #important

The face of everyone in mine, the oneness with every blade of grass, the flight with the flocks in the sky, the dance with the clouds across endless skies. The strength with every tree, rooting deep into mother earth, springing forth into the heavens, extending branches of gratitude and love.... Such a privilege, honor and grace, such a gift and joy. ↗

— Patsie Smith

#enlightenment #essence-of-life #inspiration #life #nature

There are about 15 million Muslims in the EU. They face ignorance, insult and even persecution. They cannot be wished away. To impose Enlightenment freedoms is self-defeating. Anyway, the Muslims have their own enlightenment. ↗

— James Buchan

#anyway #away #cannot #enlightenment #eu

Memories are of the ethereal, and not the material world, that is how I know I am forever. ↗

— Michael Poeltl

#enlightenment #forever #life-lessons #memories #spirituality

The left has come to regard common sense - the traditional wisdom and folkways of the community - as an obstacle to progress and enlightenment. ↗

— Christopher Lasch

#common #common sense #community #enlightenment #left

As much as we look up at the stars and know there is more than life on earth, the divinity of dogs is just as unexplainable and profound. They may be the purest example of divine love in an earthly soul many of us ever experience. If we take their lead, open our hearts, and embrace their love, we may just find our own journey a lot more enlightening. ↗

— Jennifer Skiff

#dogs #enlightenment #journey #love #experience

I did not tell Fat this, but technically he had become a Buddha. It did not seem to me like a good idea to let him know. After all, if you are a Buddha you should be able to figure it out for yourself. ↗

— Philip K. Dick

#humor #self-awareness #spirituality #humor

Mankind's biggest blunder, ignorance. Mankind's second, infallible. ↗

— M.T. Dismuke

#humor #hypocrisy #sigh #thank-you #humor