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“I have taken special interest in these accounts [of UFOs].. I think there may be substance to some of these reports... I think we owe it to the people to establish credibility regarding UFOs and to produce the greatest possible enlightenment on this subject.”

People Thinking May Interest Taken Special Subjects Produce Enlightenment Accounts Substance Reports Credibility Ufo Special Interests

Author:Gerald R. Ford

“It is not special to be enlightened, just different. An enlightened person is someone who has dedicated not just this lifetime but thousands of lifetimes to becoming awareness.”

Persons Different Special Awareness Becoming Enlightenment Lifetime Enlightened Dedicated

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Zen is a special transmission outside the scriptures,With no reliance on words and letters.A direct pointing to the human mind,And the realization of enlightenment.”

Mind Humans Special Enlightenment Direct Letters Scripture Realization Human Mind Pointing Reliance Transmission

Book:The Zen Art Book: The Art of Enlightenment

Source: The Zen Art Book: The Art of Enlightenment

“Enlightenment is very possible for the ordinary individual. Actually, it is easier than for someone who thinks that they are special.”

Thinking Individual Special Easier Ordinary Enlightenment

Author:Ravi Shankar

“There exists in society a very special class of persons that I have always referred to as the Believers. These are folks who have chosen to accept a certain religion, philosophy, theory, idea or notion and cling to that belief regardless of any evidence that might, for anyone else, bring it into doubt. They are the ones who encourage and support the fanatics and the frauds of any given age. No amount of evidence, no matter how strong, will bring them any enlightenment. They are the sheep who beg to be fleeced and butchered, and who will battle fiercely to preserve their right to be victimized.”

Source: The Mask of Nostradamus: The Prophecies of the World's Most Famous Seer

“In a special sense... the three great natural states of waking, dreaming, and deep sleep contain an entire spectrum of spiritual enlightenment.”

States Dream Spiritual Three Natural Sleep Special Enlightenment Waking Spectrum Deep Sleep Spiritual Enlightenment

Author:Ken Wilber

“America became a special source of attraction to people who were fleeing the aftereffects of the 30 Years War and the religious persecution that began to sweep through Europe in the period between the Renaissance and the Enlightenment. And when people got here, very often they succeeded.”

People Years War America Religious Special Source Periods Enlightenment Europe Attraction Persecution Renaissance Fleeing Religious Persecution

Author:Mitch Horowitz

“It is a special kind of enlightenment to have this feeling that the usual, the way things normally are, is odduncanny and highly improbable. G.K.Chesterton once said that it is one thing to be amazed at gorgon or a griffin, creatures which do not exist; but it is quite another and much higher thing to be amazed at a rhinoceros or a giraffe, creatures which do exist and look as if they don't. This feeling of universal oddity includes a basic and intense wondering about the sense of things.”

Source: The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are