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What actually happened was something absurdly simple and unspectacular: I stopped thinking. [...] Reason and imagination and all mental chatter died down. For once, words really failed me. Past and future dropped away. I forgot who and what I was, my name, manhood, animalhood, all that could be called mine. It was as if I had been born that instant, brand new, mindless, innocent of all memories. There existed only the Now, that present moment and what was clearly given in it. To look was enough. And what I found was khaki trouserlegs terminating downwards in a pair of brown shoes, khaki sleeves terminating sideways in a pair of pink hands, and a khaki shirtfront terminating upwards in—absolutely nothing whatever! Certainly not in a head. It took me no time at all to notice that this nothing, this hole where a head should have been was no ordinary vacancy, no mere nothing. On the contrary, it was very much occupied. It was a vast emptiness vastly filled, a nothing that found room for everything—room for grass, trees, shadowy distant hills, and far above them snowpeaks like a row of angular clouds riding the blue sky. I had lost a head and gained a world.


Douglas Harding


#imagination

I have been further enlightened by the conversation and correspondence of some illustrious Italians, whom I would gladly name, were I not afraid of exposing them to danger.


Edmond About


#been #conversation #correspondence #danger #enlightened

Never put yourself in a position to be made an example of.


Gary Hopkins


#energy-healing #enlightenment #god #higher-self #holy-spirit

There's no way to earn it or deserve it or bring it about any more than you can deserve the taste of raspberries and cream or earn good looks or bring about your own birth.


Frederick Buechner


#inspirational #spirituality #inspirational

The new world economic order is not an exercise in philanthropy, but in enlightened self-interest for everyone concerned.


Carlos Fuentes


#economic #enlightened #everyone #exercise #new

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

Negativity is a debilitating disease. It is a slow and painful way to experience life. It attacks the immune system, creates anxiety, and can lead to loneliness and depression. Finding your inner harmony is the quickest way to alleviate the methodical destruction of this dark energy


Gary Hopkins


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

Attaining bliss can take lifetimes, or one can simply choose to experience it in their deepest dreams. Sleep well my friend, as dreams are vehicles that can quickly take you to the awareness that you call Nirvana


Gary Hopkins


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

It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being.


John Stuart Mill


#any #being #day #human #human being

In the most general terms, the Enlightenment goes back to Plato's belief that truth and beauty and goodness are connected; that truth and beauty, disseminated widely, will sooner or later lead to goodness. (While we're making at effort at truth and goodness, beauty reminds us what we're hold out for.)


Susan Neiman


#enlightenment #philosophy #beauty






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