“People think that if you are enlightened you are not in touch with the pulse of the physical. Au contraire! The higher you go, the deeper you become, and the more conscious you are of the physical and the sensorial.” PeopleIfsThinkingHigherEnlightenmentConsciousDeeperEnlightenedPulse Author:Frederick Lenz
“Women must work doubly hard to overcome their conditioning in order to become enlightened. They must erase both conscious and unconscious ideas of sexual inferority that have been programmed into their awareness.” Has BeensIdeasHardOrderWomenAwarenessEnlightenmentConsciousOvercomingUnconsciousEnlightenedConditioningEraseConscious And Unconscious Author:Frederick Lenz
“Meditation is the pathway to enlightenment. Move the ego aside and be still, open, clear, bright and fully conscious.” StillsMovingClearMeditationBuddhismEgoEnlightenmentConsciousPathways Author:Frederick Lenz
“Its taken 14 billion years for matter to gain the capacity to become conscious of itself. If this is true, it wouldn't make any sense that the whole point of enlightenment would be to escape from the whole process at the very instant that the universe is beginning to awaken to itself.” IfsLifeYearsMatterWholeWould BeSpiritualityUniverseProcessTakenEvolutionEnlightenmentConsciousGainsCapacityAwakeningBillionsInstant Author:Andrew Cohen
“In an evolutionary context, the goal of the spiritual life is not peace; it's perpetual development. Evolutionary enlightenment is about the ecstasy that compels us to create the future. And it's not a future that's going to unfold by itself while we go back to sleep. It's a future that we forge the hard way through direct, conscious, intentional engagement with the life-process itself.” WayHardSpiritualLife IsSpiritualityProcessGoalSleepDevelopmentEnlightenmentConsciousDirectEcstasyEngagementSpiritual LifePerpetualHard Way Author:Andrew Cohen
“Even if we profess to be non-judgmental, there's an inherent judgmentality and hierarchy in which the spiritual person, the conscious person, the mindful person, is more developed than the typical truck driver or waitress or heroin addict. This is a red flag, another problem built into the concept of spirituality. The truth is that every person you meet is in some way more developed than you are, and that the multiple modes of development that a human being can pursue require the whole of humanity to pursue. We're in this together. Enlightenment is a collective effort.” ProblemTogetherSpiritualHumanitySpiritualityEffortTruth IsEnlightenmentConsciousMultipleAddictTruckHeroinWaitressTruck Driver Author:Charles Eisenstein
“One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.” DoeLightKnowledgeDarknessFiguresEnlightenmentConsciousShadowThoughtfulEnlightenedLove LifeSuicidalMemories Dreams ReflectionsConscious MindIndividuationLight And ShadowShadow WorkSithDark Night Of The SoulInner DarknessBecoming EnlightenedShadow Of Love Book:The Collected Works of C.G. Jung: Alchemical studies Source: The Collected Works of C.G. Jung: Alchemical studies
“The basic nature of all conscious beings is 'self-existing wakefulness'. Self-existing meaning spontaneous or without effort and wakefulness meaning natural awareness. To ignore our basic nature, is to wander in fear and confusion, to directly realise our essential nature is to be Enlightened.” SelfSpiritualFearNatureNaturalEffortMeditationAwarenessEssentialsEnlightenmentConsciousConfusionWanderBuddhistEnlightenedRealisingSpiritual WisdomSpontaneousEnlightening Author:Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche