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“There is obstruction. Enlightenment is not very popular in this world. History tells us that enlightened teachers who made themselves largely available to human beings had problems.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“The most important problem for our world to solve is the inequality of men and women.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“Women developed it as an art. They've had to, in order to survive. The problem is that it limits you. You are in a controlling situation in duality.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“The problem is in the type of energy that is directed, either in the act of sex or simply walking down the street or talking to someone.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

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

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Author:Kim Hee-jin

“A purpose derived from a false premise - that a deity has ordained submission to his will - cannot merit respect. The pursuit of Enlightenment-era goals - solving our world's problems through rational discourse, rather than through religion and tradition - provides ample grounds for a purposive existence. It is not for nothing that the Enlightenment, when atheism truly began to take hold, was also known as the Age of Reason.”

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Author:Jeffrey Tayler

“The closing of our earthly eyes is such a simple event. The shedding of the physical body does not solve the fundamental problems of enlightenment, just as changing ones clothes has nothing to do with the deep questions of life and destiny.”

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Author:Andre Luiz Moreira

“Technology isn't fulfilling its promise of unlimited progress and solving every problem through technology. With the Enlightenment and its aftermath, there already was a general loss of confidence in the Western religions.”

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Author:Thomas Keating

“The problem is that the Enlightenment dream may make too many demands on poor African apes like us. We may just not be up to it.”

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Author:Dale Jamieson

“There are certain people who people think are enlightened. The problem with the word enlightenment is what you mean by it.”

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Author:Tenzin Palmo

“Even if we profess to be non-judgmental, there's an inherent judgmentality and hierarchy in which the spiritual person, the conscious person, the mindful person, is more developed than the typical truck driver or waitress or heroin addict. This is a red flag, another problem built into the concept of spirituality. The truth is that every person you meet is in some way more developed than you are, and that the multiple modes of development that a human being can pursue require the whole of humanity to pursue. We're in this together. Enlightenment is a collective effort.”

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Author:Charles Eisenstein

“This is what enlightenment is all about - a deep understanding that there is no problem. Then, with no problem to solve, what will you do? Immediately you start living. You will eat, you will sleep, you will love, you will work, you will have a chit-chat, you will sing, you will dance - what else is there to do?”

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Author:Rajneesh

“No government by experts in which the masses do not have the chance to inform the experts as to their needs can be anything but an oligarchy managed in the interest of the few. And the enlightenment must proceed in ways which force the administrative specialists to take account of the needs. The world has suffered more from leaders and authorities than from the masses. The essential need ... is the improvement of the methods and conditions of debate, discussion and persuasion. That is the problem of the public.”

Source: The Public and Its Problems: An Essay in Political Inquiry

“Since my first discussions of ecological problems with Professor John Day around 1950 and since reading Konrad Lorenz's "King Solomon's Ring," I have become increasingly interested in the study of animals for what they might teach us about man, and the study of man as an animal. I have become increasingly disenchanted with what the thinkers of the so-called Age of Enlightenment tell us about the nature of man, and with what the formal religions and doctrinaire political theorists tell us about the same subject.”

“When we must deal with problems, we instinctively resist trying the way that leads through obscurity and darkness. We wish to hear only of unequivocal results, and completely forget that these results can only be brought about when we have ventured into and emerged again from the darkness. But to penetrate the darkness we must summon all the powers of enlightenment that consciousness can offer.”

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Book:The Collected Works of C.G. Jung: The structure and dynamics of the psyche

Source: The Collected Works of C.G. Jung: The structure and dynamics of the psyche