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“It is necessary to disassociate oneself from those who would interfere with your success in enlightenment, in your career, in your life. They are not worth it.”

Careers Enlightenment Oneself Interfere Worth It Not Worth It

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The courage to be as oneself within the atmosphere of Enlightenment is the courage to affirm oneself as a bridge from a lower to a higher state of rationality. It is obvious that this kind of courage to be must become conformist the moment its revolutionary attack on that which contradicts reason has ceased, namely in the victorious bourgeoisie.”

Kind States Reason Moments Higher Enlightenment Oneself Obvious Bridges Atmosphere Revolutionary Rationality Bourgeoisie Conformist

Author:Paul Tillich

“True greatness consists in the use of a powerful understanding to enlighten oneself and others.”

Use Understanding Powerful Greatness Enlightenment Oneself Enlightening True Greatness

Author:Voltaire

“The one and only thing required is to free oneself from the bondage of mind and body alike, putting the Buddha's own seal upon yourself. If you do this as you sit in ecstatic meditation, the whole universe itself scattered through the infinity of space turns into enlightenment. This is what I mean by the Buddha's seal.”

Ifs Mind Mean Whole Body Turns Universe Space Meditation Enlightenment Oneself Infinity Bondage Mind And Body Seals Ecstatic

Author:Dogen

“Sometimes it takes more courage not to let yourself see. Sometimes knowledge is damaging - not enlightenment but enleadenment. If one recognizes the difference and prepares oneself - it is extraordinarily brave. Because when it comes to certain human miseries, the only witnesses should be the pavement and maybe the trees. (Gareth van Meer)”

Ifs Should Humans Sometimes Certain Differences Tree Enlightenment Brave Misery Oneself Witness Vans Pavement

Author:Marisha Pessl

“It is not easy to convey, unless one has experienced it, the dramatic feeling of sudden enlightenment that floods the mind when the right idea finally clicks into place. One immediately sees how many previously puzzling facts are neatly explained by the new hypothesis. One could kick oneself for not having the idea earlier, it now seems so obvious. Yet before, everything was in a fog.”

Mind Ideas Facts Feelings Seems Easy Enlightenment Oneself Obvious Dramatic Kicks Flood Fog Hypothesis Clicks Puzzling Right Ideas

Author:Francis Crick

“It is wisdom to know others. It is enlightenment to know oneself.”

Knows Teacher Enlightenment Discovery Oneself Know Yourself Knowing Oneself

Author:Laozi

“Understanding others is knowledge, Understanding oneself is enlightenment; Conquering others is power, Conquering oneself is strength.”

Understanding Knowledge Strength Enlightenment Oneself Conquer Understanding Others Conquering Others

Book:Tao Te Ching: The Classic Book of Integrity and the Way

Source: Tao Te Ching: The Classic Book of Integrity and the Way

“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

“To relate is to react. To react is to understand oneself. To understand oneself is to be enlightened. Relationships are schools for enlightenment.”

School Awareness Enlightenment Oneself Relate Enlightened

Book:Heart of the Enlightened: A Book of Story Meditations

Source: Heart of the Enlightened: A Book of Story Meditations