“Normally the experience of enlightenment occurs in stages. A person will usually have many small enlightenments before full enlightenment dawns.” PersonsStageEnlightenmentDawn Author:Frederick Lenz
“There is no final stage in nirvana. Nirvana is beyond definition. It is not quantifiable.” StageEnlightenmentFinalsDefinitions Author:Frederick Lenz
“How could being the entire cosmos and all of its wonder and all of its stages and cycles, and yet being that which is beyond them all, the invisible, be extinction? Extinction? The extinction of what, of whom? How can that which has never been be extinguished?” SufferingWonderStageBuddhismEnlightenmentInvisibleCosmosCyclesExtinction Author:Frederick Lenz
“The later stages of the enlightenment process are trickier, and it is really essential to have a teacher then. You need correction, direction, and most of all you need a master's auric empowerment.” NeedsProcessTeacherStageMastersEssentialsEnlightenmentEmpowermentEnlightenedCorrections Author:Frederick Lenz
“Even great travelers of the inner world have got stuck in beautiful experiences, and have become identified with those experiences, thinking, "I have found myself." They have stopped before reaching the final stage where all experiences disappear. Enlightenment is not an experience.” ThinkingWorldBeautifulFoundStageEnlightenmentFinalsDisappearStuckReachingTravelerInner WorldBeautiful Experiences Author:Rajneesh
“Personally, I always wondered about authors and celebrities who loudly declared there was no God. It was usually when they were healthy and popular and being listened to by crowds. What happens, I wondered, in the quiet moments before death? By then, they have lost the stage, the world has moved on. If suddenly, in their last gasping moments, through fear, a vision, a late enlightenment, they change their minds about God, who would know?” IfsKnowsWorldMindMomentsHappensLastsLostVisionStageHealthyQuietLateEnlightenmentMovedCrowdsMoved OnBefore DeathQuiet Moments Author:Mitch Albom
“When? At this time, while you have all the opportunities, if you do not do your best to achieve the pure, stainless path to enlightenment when will you do it? If you don't meditate, don't practise the graduated path to enlightenment, especially bodhicitta, in this life, then when? When will you practise? When will you have this realization? If, in this life, you don't achieve renunciation, bodhicitta and sunyata, as well as the two stages of tantra, when will you? When will you have these attainments? When will you become enlightened? When will you perform perfect work for sentient beings?” IfsWellsTwoOpportunityPerfectPathAchieveStagePureEnlightenmentRealizationBuddhistThis LifeEnlightenedAttainmentRenunciationPractiseTantraSentient BeingsPath To EnlightenmentPerfect WorkBodhicitta Author:Thubten Zopa Rinpoche
“Broadly speaking, I learned to recognize sin as the refusal to live up to the enlightenment we possess: to know the right order of values and deliberately to choose the lower ones: to know that, however much these values may differ with different people at different stages of spiritual growth, for one's self there must be no compromise with that which one knows to be the lower value.” PeopleKnowsMayDifferentSelfSpiritualValuesOrderGrowthSinLearningStageEnlightenmentCompromiseSpiritual GrowthDifferent PeoplesRefusalNo Compromise Author:Margaret Bondfield
“We live in a world shaped by the ambiguous legacy of the Enlightenment...[it] enlarged the scope of human freedom, prepared our minds for the scientific method, made man the measure of all things, and placed individual consent front and center on the political stage.” MenWorldMindHumansMadePoliticalIndividualStageFrontsEnlightenmentAll ThingsMethodPreparedLegacyConsentScopeAmbiguousScientific MethodHuman Freedom Author:James Q. Wilson
“The central ideas of Christianity, an angry God and vicarious atonement, are contrary to every fact in nature, as also to the better aspirations of the human heart; they are, in our present stage of enlightenment, absurd, preposterous, and blasphemous propositions.” HumansHeartIdeasFactsChristianityStageEnlightenmentAngryContraryAbsurdAspirationHuman HeartPropositionsAtonementVicarious Author:Virchand Gandhi
“A person who wants to know everything eventually comes to a stage where his/her curiosity of knowing everything comes to an end and that is the stage of Enlightenment.” LoveGodWisdomKnowledgeStageHumanEmotionsEnlightenmentCuriosityEndSpiritual AwakeningStages Of LifeSprirituality Author:Sangita Pareek