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“Sex does drain a certain amount of your occult energy. But that really has nothing to do with enlightenment.”

Doe Certain Energy Sex Buddhism Amount Enlightenment Sexuality Drains Occult

Author:Frederick Lenz

“People who are enlightened in previous lifetimes have a certain degree of difficulty in regaining their enlightenment. Sometimes it comes in childhood. Sometimes it takes many years to reintegrate the personality structure that they gained when they first entered into this world.”

People World Years Firsts Sometimes Certain Teacher Childhood This World Personality Degrees Enlightenment Difficulty Structure Lifetime Enlightened

Author:Frederick Lenz

“While notable advances in certain parts of the world in woman's rights have occured in the last hundred years, the centuries of conditioning and the mentality that views women as inferior still prevade our world today.”

World Years Stills Today Lasts Certain Women Views Rights Century Enlightenment Hundred Our World Mentality Womens Rights Inferiors World Today Conditioning Notable

Author:Frederick Lenz

“I can understand pathways to enlightenment where people shun certain aspects of the sensual world because they feel that these aspects are very powerful; they're not in a position to control their appetites.”

People World Feels I Can Action Certain Powerful Position Enlightenment Aspect Sensual Appetite Very Powerful Pathways Right Action

Author:Frederick Lenz

“All souls do not reach enlightenment. Some souls reach a certain point and stay there. Some souls actually decline and go into different cycles.”

Different Soul Certain Enlightenment Cycles Decline

Author:Frederick Lenz

“There exists in society a very special class of persons that I have always referred to as the Believers. These are folks who have chosen to accept a certain religion, philosophy, theory, idea or notion and cling to that belief regardless of any evidence that might, for anyone else, bring it into doubt. They are the ones who encourage and support the fanatics and the frauds of any given age. No amount of evidence, no matter how strong, will bring them any enlightenment. They are the sheep who beg to be fleeced and butchered, and who will battle fiercely to preserve their right to be victimized.”

Source: The Mask of Nostradamus: The Prophecies of the World's Most Famous Seer

“There are certain people who people think are enlightened. The problem with the word enlightenment is what you mean by it.”

People Thinking Mean Problem Certain Enlightenment Enlightened

Author:Tenzin Palmo

“In Nepal, I realized a certain part of my spiritual search had come to an end. I wasn't ever going to live in a Himalayan cave (I like electricity and a soft bed way too much), and I sure wasn't going to find enlightenment so easily.”

Way Ends Spiritual Certain Too Much Bed Enlightenment I Realized Electricity Caves Nepal

Author:Alexander Weinstein

“Sometimes it takes more courage not to let yourself see. Sometimes knowledge is damaging - not enlightenment but enleadenment. If one recognizes the difference and prepares oneself - it is extraordinarily brave. Because when it comes to certain human miseries, the only witnesses should be the pavement and maybe the trees. (Gareth van Meer)”

Ifs Should Humans Sometimes Certain Differences Tree Enlightenment Brave Misery Oneself Witness Vans Pavement

Author:Marisha Pessl

“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.”

Might Form Certain Suffering Conditions Divine Degrees Enlightenment Patient Illness Insight Mental Illness Disorder Flash Mental Disorder

Book:A Mind That Found Itself

Source: A Mind That Found Itself