Quotes by Enlightenment Nonresistance, nonjudgment, and nonattachment are the three aspects of true freedom and enlightened living. Eckhart Tolle enlightenmentjudgementthree Even my desire to become free or enlightened is just another craving for fulfillment or completion in the future. So don’t seek to become free or desire or “achieve” enlightenment. Become present. Eckhart Tolle enlightenedenlightenmentdesire Become an alchemist. Transmute base metal into gold, suffering into consciousness, disaster into enlightenment. Eckhart Tolle alchemistenlightenmentsuffering Enlightenment means choosing to dwell in a state of presence rather than in time. It means saying yes to what is. Eckhart Tolle saying-yesenlightenmentmean So the single most vital step on your journey towards enlightenment is this: learn to disidentify from your mind. Eckhart Tolle enlightenmentjourneymind Most of the founding fathers, sympathetic with and influenced by the European Enlightenment, saw religion - natural religion, that is - as a potential good, but with equal clarity they saw the religions of existing institutions and religions based on a fixed scriptural revelation as meddlesome, wrong-headed and hopelessly obsolete. Edwin Gaustad enlightenmentatheismfather If there isn't an emanation of love and joy, complete presence and openness toward all beings, then it is not enlightenment. Eckhart Tolle opennessenlightenmentjoy You are not seeking to attain some future state. That is the fallacy of many spiritual seekers. They have an image of some state - enlightenment, or whatever they call it - they want to achieve. Eckhart Tolle enlightenmentspiritualwant I came to the conclusion that we should aspire to increase the scope and scale of human consciousness in order to better understand what questions to ask. Really, the only thing that makes sense is to strive for greater collective enlightenment. Elon Musk enlightenmentinspirationalorder Really, the only thing that makes sense is to strive for greater collective enlightenment. Elon Musk enlightenmentstriveinspirational Enlightenment is not the process of learning 'new' information. It is the process of 'reminding' ourselves that the answers are already 'within our consciousness'. All knowledge, all energy, all information is within us, not outside of us. it always has been and always will be. Eric Allen being-positiveenlightenmentpositive-thinking Lisp is worth learning for the profound enlightenment experience you will have when you finally get it; that experience will make you a better programmer for the rest of your days, even if you never actually use Lisp itself a lot. Eric S. Raymond enlightenmentuseprofound Enlightenment is probably antithetical to impatience. Erik Naggum impatienceenlightenment I am a humble adherent of...Enlightenment Rationalist Fundamentalism. Ernest Gellner fundamentalismenlightenmenthumble You have visits, then you have disappearances. You enter, then you exit. You come, you go. It would be so great if you could just get to human enlightenment on a linear path. Eve Ensler enlightenmentpathwould-be Freedom of speech and of the press are essential to the enlightenment of a free people and in restraining those who wield power. Felix Frankfurter freedom-of-speechenlightenmentpeople Strange enlightenments are vouchsafed to those who seek the higher places. Flann O'Brien enlightenmentstrangehigher Consider a very natural process, menstruation, and how the association has been created in which this process is dirty, degrading. Frederick Lenz enlightenmentwomendirty Women vibrate at a slightly different rate that passes kundalini very easily. It is problematic though, because a woman also picks up negative energy, it affects her more. Frederick Lenz enlightenmentwomenenergy What does God really look like stripped naked? That's the province of enlightenment...the formless, perfect face of existence. Frederick Lenz enlightenmentgodperfect«23456789101112»
