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“Consumer goods become enlightenment, relationships, anything! It doesn't really matter because infinity exists in everything. "Greater than the greatest, smaller than the smallest, the self dwells in the hearts of all," that is the Upanishads.”

Heart Self Matter Greater Enlightenment Consumers Goods Infinity Hinduism Smallest

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The world has never had a greater need for enlightened women and men.”

Men World Needs Women Greater Enlightenment Men And Women Enlightened Men Women

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Right now we have obtained a human rebirth and have the opportunity to attain enlightenment through Dharma practice, so if we waste this precious opportunity in meaningless activities there is no greater loss and no greater foolishness.”

Ifs Humans Opportunity Loss Practice Greater Right Now Activity Waste Enlightenment Meaningless Foolishness Rebirth Dharma

Book:Modern Buddhism: The Path of Compassion and Wisdom - Volume 1 Sutra

Source: Modern Buddhism: The Path of Compassion and Wisdom - Volume 1 Sutra

“Unfortunately, the greater consciousness among Whites about Black equality has not carried over to the new victims of racism - Muslims and Immigrants. There is no racial enlightenment for these groups, which are huge. Millions of Muslims and an equal number of immigrants, who whether legal or illegal, face discrimination both legally from the government and extra-legally from White Americans - and sometimes Black and Hispanic Americans. The Democratic Presidential candidates are avoiding these issues in order to cultivate support among White Americans.”

“According to Buddhism, individuals are masters of their own destiny. And all living beings are believed to possess the nature of the Primordial Buddha Samantabhadra, the potential or seed of enlightenment, within them. So our future is in our own hands. What greater free will do we need?”

Needs Hands Individual Destiny Greater Masters Buddhism Enlightenment Seeds Free Will Our Future

Book:Dzogchen: The Heart Essence of the Great Perfection

Source: Dzogchen: The Heart Essence of the Great Perfection

“In Zen Buddhism, the greater your doubt, the greater will be your enlightenment. That is why doubt can be a good thing. If you are too sure, if you always have conviction, then you may be caught in your wrong perception for a long time.”

Ifs May Long Time Doubt Greater Buddhism Perception Long Time Enlightenment Good Things Caught Conviction Zen Buddhism

Book:Buddha Mind, Buddha Body: Easyread Comfort Edition

Source: Buddha Mind, Buddha Body: Easyread Comfort Edition

“Really, the only thing that makes sense is to strive for greater collective enlightenment.”

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Author:Elon Musk

“I came to the conclusion that we should aspire to increase the scope and scale of human consciousness in order to better understand what questions to ask. Really, the only thing that makes sense is to strive for greater collective enlightenment.”

Inspirational Should Humans Order Asks Consciousness Greater Enlightenment Increase Strive Scales Conclusion Make Sense Collectives Aspire Scope Human Consciousness

Author:Elon Musk

“It is paradoxical, yet true, to say, that the more we know, the more ignorant we become in the absolute sense, for it is only through enlightenment that we become conscious of our limitations. Precisely one of the most gratifying results of intellectual evolution is the continuous opening up of new and greater prospects.”

Knows Results Greater Evolution Intellectual Enlightenment Conscious Absolutes Ignorant Opening Limitation Enlightened Prospects Paradoxical Opening Up Enlightenment And Love

Book:Nikola Tesla: 100 Quotes on Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and Success

Source: Nikola Tesla: 100 Quotes on Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and Success

“Relationships are part of a vast plan for our enlightenment, the Holy Spirit's blueprint by which each individual soul is led to greater awareness and expanded love. Relationships are the Holy Spirit's laboratories in which he brings together people who have the maximal opportunity for mutual growth.”

Source: A return to love: reflections on the principles of

“It is not the pursuit of greater and greater states of happiness and bliss that leads to enlightenment, but the yearning for Reality and the rabid dissatisfaction with living anything less than a fully authentic life.”

States Reality Greater Enlightenment Pursuit Bliss Yearning Dissatisfaction Authentic Life

Author:Adyashanti

“The word enlightenment conjures up the idea of some superhuman accomplishment, and the ego likes to keep it that way, but it is simply your natural state of felt oneness with Being. It is a state of connectedness with something immeasurable and indestructible, something that, almost paradoxically, is essentially you and yet is much greater than you. It is finding your true nature beyond name and form.”

Source: The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment

“Culture, with its processes and functions, is a subject upon which we need all the enlightenment we can achieve, and there is no direction in which we can seek with greater reward than in the facts of pre-literate societies.”

Needs Facts Culture Process Greater Achieve Subjects Enlightenment Function Rewards

Book:PATTERNS OF CULTURE

Source: PATTERNS OF CULTURE

“Joy is what we are, not what we must get. Joy is the realization that all we want or need in life has been etched into our souls. Joy helps us see not what we are "going through," but what we are "growing to"-a greater sense of understanding, accomplishment, and enlightenment. Joy reveals to us the calm at the end of the storm, the peace that surpasses the momentary happiness of pleasure. If we keep our minds centered on joy, joy becomes a state of mind.”

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Author:Iyanla Vanzant