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“Enlightenment is cumulative. You become a little more enlightened each day as you practice yoga and Buddhism.”

Inspirational Littles Practice Buddhism Enlightenment Yoga Each Day Enlightened Cumulative

Author:Frederick Lenz

“When there is no thought in the mind, no thought of thought, when the mind is quiet but fully alert, we experience a little bit of enlightenment.”

Mind Littles Bits Meditation Buddhism Quiet Little Bit Enlightenment

Author:Frederick Lenz

“What I had not counted on was discovering how closely a man could come to dying and still not die, or want to die. That, too, was mine; and it also is to the good. For that experience resolved proportions and relationships for me as nothing else could have done; and it is surprising, approaching the final enlightenment, how little one really has to know or feel sure about.”

Knows Men Want Feels Littles Stills Done Dies Dying Mines Enlightenment Finals Proportion Surprising Discovering Wanting To Die

Book:Alone: The Classic Polar Adventure

Source: Alone: The Classic Polar Adventure

“It seems that the more places I see and experience, the bigger I realize the world to be. The more I become aware of, the more I realize how relatively little I know of it, how many places I have still to go, how much more there is to learn. Maybe that's enlightenment enough - to know that there is no final resting place of the mind, no moment of smug clarity. Perhaps wisdom, at least for me, means realizing how small I am, and unwise, and how far I have yet to go.”

Knows World Mind Mean Littles Stills Enough Moments Seems Realizing Enlightenment Bigger Finals Clarity Unwise

Author:Anthony Bourdain

“No one's life is totally morbid. Even on a subtle scale there's little flashes of enlightenment and of happiness and joy.”

Littles Life Is Joy Enlightenment Scales Subtle Flash Morbid Joy And Happiness

Author:Sylvester Stallone

“The Enlightenment faith that things are getting a little bit better each decade becomes difficult to support. People recognized that there had just been a war that was worse than the war of 1812, and worse than the Revolution; things were clearly not getting better and better.”

People Littles War Bits Difficult Support Revolution Little Bit Enlightenment Decades Get Better War Of 1812

Author:Christine Jennings

“Enlightenment must come little by little - otherwise it would overwhelm.”

Littles Spiritual Enlightenment Enlightened Sufi Wisdom Spiritual Enlightenment Enlightenment And Love

Book:The Sufis

Source: The Sufis

“Its big men are mostly little men with fancy offices and a lot of money. A great many of them are stupid little men, with reach-me-down brains, small-town arrogance and a sort of animal knack of smelling out the taste of the stupidest part of the public. They have played in luck so long that they have come to mistake luck for enlightenment." - on Hollywood”

Men Littles Long Bigs Animal Mistake Brain Stupid Taste Office Enlightenment Hollywood Towns Luck Arrogance Fancy Lots Of Money Small Town Knack Little Man Stupidest

Author:Raymond Chandler

“All that the posture of skepticism accomplishes is to freeze the ego in an ignorantist poverty that never stretches or diversifies its resources of imagination or understanding. Any uncultured cretin can close his eyes and try to reduce the issues down to linear simplisms and say, "I am doubting, I am proving my magisterial or sovereign control over my own mind." Doubt is a useful and significant test of one's critical powers, but by itself it bears little if any significant cultural charge of enlightenment or satori; indeed it is the very opposite kind of thing.”

“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

“Martin Swinger is one of those rare singer-songwriters who excels at everything: singing, songwriting, guitar-playing, and being so present with his humor, tenderness, and wild mind that his performances are also deep conversations, soul to soul and heart to heart, about the quirks, surprises, and love that brings us most alive. His songs, ranging from the little plastic parts that hold the world together, to what enlightenment comes from Buddha and Betty Boop falling in love, are whimsically and wisely original and enduring.”

“[Men] prefer the foolish belief and the passions of the earth [to the enlightenment of their souls]. They believe the absurd and shrink from the truth.No, they do not. They are afraid, that is all. And they must remain on earth until they come to the way of leaving it.And how do they leave? How is the ascent made? Must one learn virtue?Here she laughs. You have read too much, and learned too little. Virtue is a road, not a destination. Man cannot be virtuous. Understanding is the goal. When that is achieved, the soul can take wing.”

Men Way Believe Littles Made Soul Earth Passion Belief Understanding Goal Laughing Virtue Too Much Enlightenment Wings Leaving Foolish Absurd Destination Virtuous Shrinks Ascent

Author:Iain Pears

“In dealing with the arrogant asserter of doubt, it is not the right method to tell him to stop doubting. It is rather the right method to tell him to go on doubting, to doubt a little more, to doubt every day newer and wilder things in the universe, until at last, by some strange enlightenment, he may begin to doubt himself.”

May Littles Lasts Universe Doubt Strange Goes On Enlightenment Method Arrogant Wilder

Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton