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“On your journey, remember there is no end. That is true knowledge. There is no final knowledge. There is no final enlightenment, that is a very finite, human way of seeing things.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“You remember, you are drawn back to the pathway to enlightenment, to meditation, and when you begin to meditate your past life knowledge returns to you.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“When women come into their full power, a balance will occur which has not been seen for so long that no one remembers it.”

Long Remember Women Balance Enlightenment

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Remember that it's never a crime in the face of humanity and enlightenment to distribute the works of the great humanists among the merchants and moneychangers of this godforsaken country... You better slip me the dough.”

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Book:The 42nd Parallel

Source: The 42nd Parallel

“Thomas Jefferson, the leading Enlightenment figure in the United States, along with Benjamin Franklin, who took exactly the same view, argued that dependence will lead to "subservience and venality", and will "suffocate the germs of virtue". And remember, by dependence he meant wage labor, which was considered an abomination under classical liberal principles.”

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Author:Noam Chomsky

“If you ever reach enlightenment. will you remember how to laugh?”

Ifs Remember Laughing Enlightenment

Author:Andrea Gibson

“Know that originally none of us are from Earth. We all have natural origins off the planet. We are having human experience, but one thing we're going to have to come to understand - and I know that's a lot for some people - is that our heritage is within the galactic origin. We are going to come into alignment with that by remembering our individual origins - and that's going to be a very important part of our enlightenment process.”

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Author:Christine McCormick Day

“I just read an 800-page history of the Scottish Enlightenment and, honestly, I may as well just start it again now, because I cannot remember a single thing. I can barely remember where Scotland is.”

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Author:Hugh Laurie

“Ask yourself these two questions: Do I remember at every moment that I am dying, and that everyone and everything else is, and so treat all beings at all times with compassion? Has my understanding of death and impermanence become so keen and so urgent that I am devoting every second to the pursuit of enlightenment? If you can answer "yes" to both of these, then you really understand impermanence.”

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Author:Sogyal Rinpoche

“Remember, the greatest gift to give people your enlightenment, to share it. It has to be the greatest.”

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Author:Gautama Buddha

“Healing comes when the individual remembers his or her identity—the purpose chosen in the world of ancestral wisdom—and reconnects with that world of Spirit.”

Source: The healing wisdom of Africa: finding life purpose through nature, ritual, and community