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“The process of education takes place in the field of consciousness; the prerequisite to complete education is therefore the full development of consciousness - enlightenment. Knowledge is not the basis of enlightenment, enlightenment is the basis of knowledge.”

Process Consciousness Fields Development Enlightenment Bases Prerequisites

Author:Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

“Zen is a very quick path to enlightenment and development of the mind and all its facilities.”

Mind Path Development Enlightenment Introduction Facility Path To Enlightenment

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Flaky devotionalism, bowing and scraping and sucking up to the teacher is very phony. It is counterproductive to enlightenment and spiritual development. What is necessary is mutual respect.”

Spiritual Teacher Buddhism Development Enlightenment Buddhist Mutual Etiquette Phony Spiritual Development Mutual Respect Counterproductive Scraping

Author:Frederick Lenz

“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.”

Way Hard Spiritual Life Is Spirituality Process Goal Sleep Development Enlightenment Conscious Direct Ecstasy Engagement Spiritual Life Perpetual Hard Way

Author:Andrew Cohen

“With the development of industrial capitalism, a new and unanticipated system of injustice, it is libertarian socialism that has preserved and extended the radical humanist message of the Enlightenment and the classical liberal ideals that were perverted into an ideology to sustain the emerging social order.”

Order Social Development Messages Enlightenment Capitalism Ideals Injustice Libertarian Socialism Ideology Radical Humanist Emerging Social Order Enlightenment And Love

Book:The Essential Chomsky

Source: The Essential Chomsky

“Only a development of thought achieved through the self-education of the whole man can prevent any body of thought whatsoever from becoming a poison; can prevent enlightenment from becoming an agent of death.”

Men Self Whole Body Development Becoming Enlightenment Agents Poison Self Education

Book:Way to Wisdom: An Introduction to Philosophy

Source: Way to Wisdom: An Introduction to Philosophy

“I am not a communist first and an individualist second. I am an individualist first, and I don't mean this in the shallow, purely egotistical sense of self-interest and everyone else be damned. I mean this in the true sense of enlightenment, recovery of personality, and the full development of personality.”

Firsts Mean Self Interest Personality Development Enlightenment Recovery Communist Shallow Self Interest Sense Of Self Egotistical

Author:Murray Bookchin

“My own experience has taught me not to underestimate the power of those who protest against cruelty. I'd also say that there may be a tendency to view the animal-rights opposition in somewhat distorted fashion as a new development, as the product of a very recent enlightenment about the rights due to animals.”

May My Own Animal Views Rights Fashion Taught Products Development Enlightenment Dues Cruelty Tendencies Opposition Protest Animal Rights Underestimate

Author:Bette Ford