“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.” PeopleWorldYearsFirstsSometimesCertainTeacherChildhoodThis WorldPersonalityDegreesEnlightenmentDifficultyStructureLifetimeEnlightened Author:Frederick Lenz
“That which especially distinguishes a high order of man from a low order of man, that which constitutes human goodness, human nobleness, is surely not the degree of enlightenment with which men pursue their own advantage; but it is self-forgetfulness; it is self-sacrifice; it is the disregard of personal pleasure, personal indulgence, personal advantage, remote or present, because some other line of conduct is more right.” MenHumansSelfOrderLinesPleasureSacrificeGoodnessDegreesLowsEnlightenmentAdvantagePursueIndulgenceDisregardForgetfulnessSelf SacrificeSelf Forgetfulness Author:James Anthony Froude
“The true value of a human being can be found in the degree to which he has attained liberation from the self.” LifeHumansSelfSpiritualValuesSpiritualityFoundPeaceHuman BeingsDegreesEnlightenmentLiberationTrue Value Author:Albert Einstein
“There are many paths to enlightenment. Some of us who have expanded to a degree of illumination have thereafter preached the dogmatic certainty of one particular path. But enlightenment doesn't care how you get there. And if you aren't going to be thinking about it in paradise, then don't worry about it now.” IfsThinkingCareSpiritualWorryPathParticularDegreesEnlightenmentCertaintyParadiseIlluminationDogmaticMany PathsPath To Enlightenment Author:Thaddeus Golas
“Men naturally rebel against the injustice of which they are victims. Thus, when plunder is organized by law for the profit of those who make the law, all the plundered classes try somehow to enter, by peaceful or revolutionary means, into the making of laws. According to their degree of enlightenment, these plundered classes may propose one of two entirely different purposes when they attempt to attain political power: Either they may wish to stop lawful plunder, or they may wish to share in it.” MenTryingMayMeanTwoDifferentLawPoliticalPurposeWishClassShareDegreesEnlightenmentVictimInjusticeProfitPeacefulRevolutionaryOrganizedRebelProposePolitical PowerPlunder Book:The Law Source: The Law
“The measure of your enlightenment is the degree to which you are comfortable with paradox, contradiction, and ambiguity.” DegreesComfortableEnlightenmentContradictionParadoxAmbiguity Author:Deepak Chopra
“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.” MightFormCertainSufferingConditionsDivineDegreesEnlightenmentPatientIllnessInsightMental IllnessDisorderFlashMental Disorder Book:A Mind That Found Itself Source: A Mind That Found Itself