Quotes by Enlightenment Beware of the manipulativeness of rich students who were neglected by their parents. They love to turn the campus into hysterical psychodramas of sexual transgression, followed by assertions of parental authority and concern. And don't look for sexual enlightenment from academe, which spews out mountains of books but never looks at life directly. Camille Paglia enlightenmentparentbook When we must deal with problems, we instinctively resist trying the way that leads through obscurity and darkness. We wish to hear only of unequivocal results, and completely forget that these results can only be brought about when we have ventured into and emerged again from the darkness. But to penetrate the darkness we must summon all the powers of enlightenment that consciousness can offer. Carl Jung enlightenmentdarknesswish Enlightenment consists not merely in the seeing of luminous shapes and visions, but in making the darkness visible. The latter procedure is more difficult and therefore, unpopular. Carl Jung enlightenmentvisiondarkness There is a flaw with words, they always force us to feel enlightened, but when we turn around to face the world they always fail us and we end up facing the world as we always have, without enlightenment Carlos Castaneda enlightenmentwords-of-wisdomwarrior My dear brothers, never forget, when you hear the progress of enlightenment vaunted, that the devil's best trick is to persuade you that he doesn't exist! Charles Baudelaire enlightenmentprogressbrother Enlightenment is a group activity. Charles Eisenstein activityenlightenmentgroups I was already writing about the idea of a 'multiverse' in the 1970s, though I might have called it the 'pluriverse.' How was I to know it would turn out to be the standard model? Actually, I consider myself an enlightenment fossil. Charles Jencks enlightenmentwritingideas Good humor and enthusiasm should be the sunshine ahead that will keep that shadow behind. Charles W. Field enlightenmentsunshineshadow The trouble with Westerners is that they want to witness their own enlightenment. Chogyam Trungpa enlightenmenttroublewant Anything that is created must sooner or later die. Enlightenment is permanent because we have not produced it; we have merely discovered it. Chogyam Trungpa sooner-or-laterenlightenmentbuddhist The attainment of enlightenment from ego's point of view is extreme death. Chogyam Trungpa enlightenmentegoviews If we really prefer basic sanity or enlightenment, it's irritatingly possible to get into it. Chogyam Trungpa sanityenlightenmentifs The Zen of doing anything is doing it with a particular concentration of mind, a calmness and simplicity of mind, that brings the experience of enlightenment and, through that experience, happiness. Chris Prentiss enlightenmentsimplicitymind Know that originally none of us are from Earth. We all have natural origins off the planet. We are having human experience, but one thing we're going to have to come to understand - and I know that's a lot for some people - is that our heritage is within the galactic origin. We are going to come into alignment with that by remembering our individual origins - and that's going to be a very important part of our enlightenment process. Christine McCormick Day enlightenmentimportantpeople 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 enlightenmentstrongleague A person must earn enlightenment, Eragon. It is not handed down to you by others, regardless of how revered they be. Christopher Paolini eragonenlightenmentpersons I would say any behavior that is not the status quo is interpreted as insanity, when, in fact, it might actually be enlightenment. Insanity is sorta in the eye of the beholder. Chuck Palahniuk enlightenmenteyeinsanity Not a few patients, however, suffering from certain forms of mental disorder, regain a high degree of insight into their mental condition in what might be termed a flash of divine enlightenment. Clifford Whittingham Beers enlightenmentdegreessuffering The world had seen so many Ages: the Age of Enlightenment; of Reformation; of Reason. Now, at last, the Age of Desire. And after this, an end to Ages; an end, perhaps, to everything. Clive Barker enlightenmentagedesire Enlightenment isn't found with a full stomach, or on a soft pillow. Conrad Anker stomachenlightenmentfound«1234567891011»
