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“People in the West sometimes have these marvelous visions of India and Tibet. They assume that there are all these sadhus walking around and everybody is breathing enlightenment. Forget it. Don't look at it through rose-colored glasses.”

People Looks Sometimes Forget Vision Buddhism Walking Enlightenment India Assuming Rose West Glasses Breathing Marvelous Forget It Tibet Colored Glass Rose Colored Glasses

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The road to enlightenment is long and difficult, and you should try not to forget snacks and magazines.”

Should Trying Long Difficult Forget Enlightenment Magazines Snacks

Book:Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith

Source: Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith

“Forget about enlightenment. Sit down wherever you are and listen to the wind that is singing in your veins. Feel the love, the longing and the fear in your bones. Open your heart to who you are, right now, not who you would like to be. Not the saint you're striving to become. But the being right here before you, inside you, around you. All of you is holy. You're already more and less than whatever you can know. Breathe out, look in, let go.”

“My dear brothers, never forget, when you hear the progress of enlightenment vaunted, that the devil's best trick is to persuade you that he doesn't exist!”

Forget Progress Brother Enlightenment Devil Dear Tricks Never Forget Dear Brother

Author:Charles Baudelaire

“To study the Way is to study the Self. To study the Self is to forget the self. To forget the self is to be enlightened by all things of the universe. To be enlightened by all things of the universe is to cast off the body and mind of the self as well as those of others. Even the traces of enlightenment are wiped out, and life with traceless enlightenment goes on forever and ever”

Way Mind Wells Self Body Universe Forget Forever Study Goes On Enlightenment All Things Casts Enlightened Mind And Body

Author:Dogen

“If it feels like your life has become a nasty, brackish puddle of water, never forget that you do possess the power to transform it into a beautiful, rushing stream that will carry you to enlightenment.”

Ifs Feels Beautiful Water Forget Like You Enlightenment Encouragement Streams Never Forget Nasty Rushing Puddles

Book:Super Rich: A Guide to Having It All

Source: Super Rich: A Guide to Having It All

“Since the so-called Age of Enlightenment, our shaky anthropocentric, rationalist egos have been brainwashed to forget what 'primitive' cultures once understood: Animals can be manifestations of celestial beings in disguise; they possess supernatural abilities, and they can be our spiritual guides and healers.”

Has Beens Age Spiritual Culture Ability Forget Animal Ego Enlightenment Understood Guides Manifestation Primitive Disguise Celestial Healer Brainwashed Age Of Enlightenment

Author:Zeena Schreck

“Forget about enlightenment. Sit down wherever you are. And listen to the wind singing in your veins.”

Forget Wind Singing Enlightenment Veins Wherever You Are

Author:John Welwood

“When we must deal with problems, we instinctively resist trying the way that leads through obscurity and darkness. We wish to hear only of unequivocal results, and completely forget that these results can only be brought about when we have ventured into and emerged again from the darkness. But to penetrate the darkness we must summon all the powers of enlightenment that consciousness can offer.”

Way Trying Problem Wish Forget Results Deals Consciousness Darkness Offers Enlightenment Penetrate Obscurity Unequivocal

Book:The Collected Works of C.G. Jung: The structure and dynamics of the psyche

Source: The Collected Works of C.G. Jung: The structure and dynamics of the psyche

“Studying the Buddha way is studying oneself. Studying oneself is forgetting oneself. Forgetting oneself is being enlightened by all things. Being enlightened by all things is to shed the body-mind of oneself, and those of others. No trace of enlightenment remains, and this traceless enlightenment continues endlessly.”

Way Mind Self Body Forget Study Enlightenment All Things Remains Oneself Enlightened Shed

Author:Dogen