#enlightenment

Finding the calmness or serenity in oneself effectively diffuses the judgments of others ↗

— Gary Hopkins

#enlightenment #god #higher-self #holy-spirit #inspirational

Enlightenment begins by getting acquainted with your inner voice or your higher self. The dialogue experienced in this process leads to a more comfortable, better-focused lifestyle. Over time this relationship blossoms into a higher and more efficient form of Self-Management. With practice, thoughts, feelings, emotions, and physical manifestations merge into a more harmonious state. This state of being allows for a softer, more gentile approach to life that not only benefits the individual, but the community as a whole ↗

— Gary Hopkins

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To be whole simply requires paying attention to oneself ↗

— Gary Hopkins

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Inner Awareness is often gained in incremental steps at first. The distraction of the perceived physical world dictates this. However, once one realizes this process, a new skill in “awareness recognition” emerges… and like riding a bike for the first time, one peddles faster, gaining confidence in their new skill, a skill that will take them much farther than any distraction previously experienced ↗

— Gary Hopkins

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Only through Absolution will you reach the Absolute. ↗

— Toni Petrinovich

#enlightenment #forgiveness #god-s-grace #love #metaphysics

That which you see in me is that which is in you. ~ Maitreya Miranda* ~ ↗

— Miranda* Linda Weisz

#inspirational #spiritual #inspirational

What should I do—how should I act now, this very day . . . What she would resolve to do that day did not yet seem quite clear, but something that she could achieve stirred her as with an approaching murmur which would soon gather distinctness. ↗

— George Eliot

#intelligence #wisdom #intelligence

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

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

— Richard Dawkins

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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