#enlightenment

To be enlightened is to know oneself and not run away. ↗

— Veronique Vienne

#life #self #life

We are all blessed ones. Heaven is no longer in the clouds. It is right here, all around us, everywhere; we must only open our eyes to see it. ↗

— Kim Chestney

#heaven #intuition #kim-chestney #psychic-workshop #samadhi

Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is Enlightenment. ↗

— Lao Tzu

#enlightenment #knowing #others #yourself

Always keep your mind as bright and clear as the vast sky, the great ocean, and the highest peak, empty of all thoughts. Always keep your body filled with light and heat. Fill yourself with the power of wisdom and enlightenment. ↗

— Morihei Ueshiba

#body #bright #clear #empty #enlightenment

Everyone has a spirit that can be refined, a body that can be trained in some manner, a suitable path to follow. You are here to realize your inner divinity and manifest your innate enlightenment. ↗

— Morihei Ueshiba

#divinity #enlightenment #everyone #follow #here

There is no doubt that religion had already waned under the onslaught of the Enlightenment, but it was Freud who provided the radically new understanding of human nature that made any religious explanation of the whats and whys of our personhood seem naive. ↗

— Tony Campolo

#any #doubt #enlightenment #explanation #freud

The enlightenment is under threat. So is reason. So is truth. So is science, especially in the schools of America. ↗

— Richard Dawkins

#enlightenment #especially #reason #schools #science

The sublimated idealism of the Enlightenment, the spirit of the League of Nations and of the United Nations Charter have not proved strong enough to control the aggressive dynamism of nationalism. ↗

— Christopher Dawson

#charter #control #dynamism #enlightenment #enough

I'm very much an Enlightenment kind of guy. ↗

— Jimmy Wales

#guy #i #kind #much #very

Enlightenment is the key to everything, and it is the key to intimacy, because it is the goal of true authenticity. ↗

— Marianne Williamson

#because #enlightenment #everything #goal #intimacy