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“If you learn to lead your life strategically and strongly, you can overcome the opposition. But running away, you never overcome anything. The pathway to enlightenment is for the warrior, the samurai.”

Ifs Inspirational Running Buddhism Enlightenment Overcoming Warrior Opposition Running Away Pathways Samurai

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Women must work doubly hard to overcome their conditioning in order to become enlightened. They must erase both conscious and unconscious ideas of sexual inferority that have been programmed into their awareness.”

Has Beens Ideas Hard Order Women Awareness Enlightenment Conscious Overcoming Unconscious Enlightened Conditioning Erase Conscious And Unconscious

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Power is the big obstacle, or one of them, that you have to overcome and learn to deal with effectively before you can reach enlightenment.”

Bigs Deals Power Enlightenment Overcoming Obstacles

Author:Frederick Lenz

“You must learn to meditate and stop your thoughts. You must overcome all egotism and selfishness by serving others. You must cleanse your mind so that enlightenment will find a happy place to reside there.”

Mind Effort Enlightenment Overcoming Selfishness Serving Egotism Serving Others Happy Place

Book:Surfing the Himalayas: A Spiritual Adventure

Source: Surfing the Himalayas: A Spiritual Adventure

“Enlightenment after all is to overcome delusion, by way of sensitizing practitioners to complexities and problems of the human situation.”

Way Humans Problem Situation Enlightenment Overcoming Complexity Delusion

Author:Kim Hee-jin

“Now that science has helped us to overcome the awe of the unknown in nature, we are the slaves of social pressures of our own making. When called upon to act independently, we cry for patterns, systems, and authorities. If by enlightenment and intellectual progress we mean the freeing of man from superstitious belief in evil forces, in demons and fairies, in blind fate--in short, the emancipation from fear--then denunciation of what is currently called reason is the greatest service reason can render.”

Source: EPZ Eclipse of Reason

“Climbing is a heroic liberating act; and height spontaneously symbolizes things of high value, be it in the value of worldly power or of spirituality. To rise in an elevator, balloon, or airplane is to experience being liberated from weight, sublimated, invested with superhuman abilities. In addition, to rise from the earth is to approach the realm of light and overview. Therefore the negative overcoming of weight is at the same time the positive achievement of enlightenment and an unobstructed outlook.”

Source: The Dynamics of Architectural Form

“Duality is the real root of our suffering and of all our conflicts. All our concepts and beliefs, no matter how profound they may seem, are like nets which trap us in dualism. When we discover our limits we have to try to overcome them, untying ourselves from whatever type of religious, political, or social conviction may contain us. We have to abandon such concepts as 'enlightenment', 'the nature of the mind', and so on, until we no longer neglect to integrate our knowledge with our actual existence.”

“Forces of light on earth shall overcome the force of darkness. Complete spiritual enlightenment on earth will occur.”

Light Earth Spiritual Force Darkness Enlightenment Overcoming Spiritual Enlightenment

Author:Edgar Cayce

“Everyone smiles in the same language, Happiness knows no frontiers, no age. No difference thar makes us feel apart if a smile can win even a broken heart.”

Source: A-Z of Happiness: Tips for Living and Breaking Through the Chain that Separates You from Getting That Dream Job