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“No self-effort in the direction of enlightenment is ever wasted. Even if you don't become fully enlightened in a given lifetime, you will be much happier and more aware.”

Ifs Self Given Effort Enlightenment Lifetime Enlightened Rebirth

Author:Frederick Lenz

“In the firm belief that the American public deserves a better explanation than that thus far given by the Air Force, I strongly recommend that there be a committee investigation of the UFO phenomena. I think we owe it to the people to establish credibility regarding UFOs, and to produce the greatest possible enlightenment of the subject.”

“The few women who have been admitted to the study are usually given a second-class status in which they are taught only the basics of self-discovery.”

Has Beens Self Given Women Class Study Taught Enlightenment Discovery Self Discovery Basics Class Status

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Women have been taught that they are not powerful; they've been given an opposite description, that they are weak. The word "effeminate" implies weakness.”

Has Beens Given Women Powerful Taught Enlightenment Weakness Weak Opposites Description

Author:Frederick Lenz

“With this imaginary mandate from God, men have not allowed women to be given the educational, religous and social freedoms that are necessary for women to free themselves and become all that they are capable of being.”

Men Given Social Women Capable Enlightenment Educational Imaginary Mandates

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Women do not help each other attain enlightenment because in the description of the world they've been given, unlike that of men, it's every woman for herself in order to survive.”

Men World Helping Order Given Women Enlightenment Description Helping Each Other

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The genius of Man in our time has gone into jet-propulsion, atom-splitting, penicillin-curing, etc. There is none over for works of imagination; of spiritual insight or mystical enlightenment. I asked for bread and was given a tranquilliser.”

Men Spiritual Given Imagination Gone Genius Enlightenment Insight Bread Our Time Etc Atoms Mystical Jet Splitting Spiritual Insight Penicillin Propulsion

Book:Tread softly, for you tread on my jokes

Source: Tread softly, for you tread on my jokes

“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

“Carla Hesse has given us an astonishing new look at women's struggle for independent expression and moral autonomy during the French Revolution and afterward. Denied the political and civil rights of men, literary women plunged into the expanded world of publication, answering the men's philosophical treatises with provocative novels about women's choices and chances. Lively and learned, The Other Enlightenment links women from Madame de Stael to Simone de Beauvoir in an alternate and daring path to the modern.”

“We hear in these days of scientific enlightenment a great deal of discussion about the efficacy of Prayer. Many reasons are given why we should not pray. Others give reasons why we should pray. Very little is said of the reason we do pray. The reason is simple: We pray because we cannot help praying.”

Giving Should Littles Said Reason Helping Science Given Prayer Simple Deals Praying Enlightenment Simplicity These Days Reason Why Discussion Efficacy

Author:William James

“Your enlightenment depends on the company you keep. You do not know the world until you know the men who have possessed it and tried its wares before you were ever given your brief run upon it.”

Knows Men World Running Given Company He Man Depends Enlightenment Possessed Company You Keep

Book:The papers of Woodrow Wilson

Source: The papers of Woodrow Wilson

“The genius of Man in our time has gone into jet-propulsion, atom-splitting, penicillin-curing, etc. There is none left over for works of imagination; of spiritual insight or mystical enlightenment.”