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“It is vain to think that we choose, that our own energy, our own intellect will create the possibility of us experiencing a higher order of existence. Liberation is to know you are that.”

Thinking Knows Order Energy Existence Possibility Higher Enlightenment Intellect Liberation Vain

Author:Frederick Lenz

“For the first time, we live in a society that shows any sign of the possibility of women changing this condition.”

Firsts Shows Women Conditions Possibility Enlightenment First Time

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Today for the first time, at least in this country, you don't have to use those powers to survive. Our societal structure now provides the possibility to survive without using sexual manipulation.”

Firsts Country Use Today Women Possibility Enlightenment First Time Structure Manipulation

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The pathway to enlightenment is joyful. It may sound harsh. I suggest just the opposite. It is rather easy compared to the possibilities of staying in pain and illusion.”

May Pain Easy Sound Possibility Enlightenment Illusion Opposites Staying Joyful Harsh Pathways

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Whether or not enlightenment is possible at the moment of death, the practices that prepare one for this possibility also bring one closer to the bone of life.”

Moments Practice Possibility Enlightenment Bones

Book:Being with Dying: Cultivating Compassion and Fearlessness in the Presence of Death

Source: Being with Dying: Cultivating Compassion and Fearlessness in the Presence of Death

“I want to offer the possibility that Jesus was truly, as he proclaimed, a savior. Not the savior, not the one and only Son of God. Rather Jesus embodied the highest level of enlightenment.”

Want Jesus Levels Possibility Son Offers Highest Enlightenment Savior Only Son

Book:The Third Jesus: How to Find Truth and Love in Today's World

Source: The Third Jesus: How to Find Truth and Love in Today's World

“If we only identify with the mortal world, then we identify with a level of scarcity and lack and brokenness, and that will be our experience. But if we shift our experience of self-identification - and this is what enlightenment is - from the body-self to the spiritual-self, then we place ourselves under an entirely different set of possibilities and probabilities.”

Ifs World Different Self Body Spiritual Levels Possibility Enlightenment Mortals Probability Brokenness Identification Scarcity

Author:Marianne Williamson

“The Enlightenment dream is a good one. The idea that people should rationally appreciate their place in nature, assess threats and possibilities, and regulate their behavior in response is inspiring.”

People Should Ideas Dream Possibility Behavior Enlightenment Appreciate Threat Response

Author:Dale Jamieson

“In the process of burning out these confusions, we discover enlightenment. If the process were otherwise, the awakened state of mind would be a product dependent upon cause and effect and therefore liable to dissolution. Anything which is created must, sooner or later, die. If enlightenment were created in such a way, there would always be a possibility of ego reasserting itself, causing a return to the confused state. Enlightenment is permanent because we have not produced it; we have merely discovered it.”

Source: The Collected Works of Chogyam Trungpa: Volume Three: Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism; The Myth of Freedom; The Heart of the Bud dha; Selected Writings

“From a mind filled with infinite love comes the power to create infinite possibilities. We have the power to think in ways that reflect and attract all the love in the world. Such thinking is called enlightenment. Enlightenment is not a process we work toward, but a choice available to us in any instant.”

Thinking World Way Mind Choices Process Possibility Enlightenment Infinite Filled Available Instant Present Moment Infinite Possibilities Infinite Love

Book:The Law of Divine Compensation: On Work, Money, and Miracles

Source: The Law of Divine Compensation: On Work, Money, and Miracles

“The moment of enlightenment is when a person's dreams of possibilities become images of probabilities.”

Inspirational Persons Moments Dream Opportunity Goal Possibility Enlightenment Probability

Author:Vic Braden

“Whether or not enlightenment is a plausible goal for us is a vital question for our lives. If it is possible for us to attain such perfect enlightenment ourselves, our whole sense of meaning and our place in the universe immediately changes. To be open to the possibility is to be a spiritual seeker, no matter what our religion. Enlightenment is not meant to be an object of religious faith. It is an evolutionary goal.”

Ifs Matter Whole Spiritual Universe Goal Religious Perfect Our Lives Possibility Objects Enlightenment No Matter What Meant To Be Seekers Religious Faith Plausible

Author:Robert Thurman