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“My favorite cause is the enlightenment of others. I think that is the best place to put money. You get the highest yield in terms of karma on your money.”

Thinking Causes Term Highest Enlightenment My Favorite Karma Yield Rama Best Place

Author:Frederick Lenz

“If global extinction is to be avoided, woman must unite and come to terms with their destiny.”

Ifs Women Term Destiny Enlightenment Extinction Avoided

Author:Frederick Lenz

“In the most general terms, the Enlightenment goes back to Plato's belief that truth and beauty and goodness are connected; that truth and beauty, disseminated widely, will sooner or later lead to goodness. (While we're making at effort at truth and goodness, beauty reminds us what we're hold out for.)”

Belief Term Effort Goodness Enlightenment Connected Sooner Or Later Plato Plato S Truth And Beauty

Author:Susan Neiman

“The scientific picture of the world championed since the Enlightenment is not just wrong but massively wrong. Indeed entire fields of inquiry, especially in the human sciences, will need to be rethought from the ground up in terms of intelligent design.”

World Needs Humans Term Design Fields Enlightenment Intelligent Inquiry Intelligent Design

Book:Intelligent Design: The Bridge Between Science & Theology

Source: Intelligent Design: The Bridge Between Science & Theology

“I think it is very important to view life in terms of winning and losing until complete enlightenment has occurred.”

Thinking Important Success Winning Term Views Careers Buddhism Losing Enlightenment Winning And Losing

Author:Frederick Lenz

“It is easy to imagine that the Buddha, the awakened one, is something or somewhere other than here or that awakening to reality will happen sometime other than now. But as long as we continue to think in terms of time we will deceive ourselves. The you who is chasing enlightenment will never become enlightened. Instead of striving towards some distant goal that you will never reach, I invite you to stop and ask: How am I avoiding the enlightenment that is already present in each moment? How am I seeing separation where it doesn't exist?”

Thinking Long Moments Reality Happens Time Asks Easy Goal Term Imagine Seeing Enlightenment Strive Awakening Separation Enlightened Invites Imagine That Deceiving Avoiding Chasing Awakened

Author:Adyashanti

“...I am afraid that education is conceived more in terms of indoctrination by most school officials than in terms of enlightenment. My own belief is that education must be subversive if it is to be meaningful. By this I mean that it must challenge all the things we take for granted, examine all accepted assumptions, tamper with every sacred cow, and instill a desire to question and doubt. Without this the mere instruction to memorise data is empty. The attempt to enforce conventional mediocrity on the young is criminal.”

“The Protestant reformation was an attempt to recast the Christian faith in terms of the new learning of the 16th century, the enlightenment learning. It was the first time that the Christian church did not have the capacity to keep itself unified as it recast itself, so it split into Protestant and Catholic traditions.”

Firsts Christian Term Church Century Enlightenment First Time Capacity Tradition Catholic Splits Reformation Protestants Christian Faith Unified Christian Church Protestant Reformation

Author:John Shelby Spong

“I began researching and writing what I intended as a book-length essay entitled Fascination and Liberation, exploring the question of whether there is a conflict between creativity and the Eastern form of enlightenment. I don't know if I'll ever finish that essay, because I had an experience, after I'd written two or three chapters, in which it seemed to me that my psychic antibodies decisively rejected Buddhism. Interestingly, the rejection felt as if it happened in Zen terms.”

“They are not following dharma who resort to violence to achieve their purpose. But those who lead others through nonviolent means, knowing right and wrong, may be called guardians of the dharma. Those who really seek the path to Enlightenment dictate terms to their mind. Then they proceed with strong determination.”

Mind May Mean Purpose Strong Term Knowing Path Violence Achieve Enlightenment Determination Following Buddhist Resorts Guardian Dharma Path To Enlightenment Strong Determination

Author:Gautama Buddha

“Those who really seek the path to Enlightenment dictate terms to their mind. Then they proceed with strong determination.”

Mind Strong Term Path Awareness Enlightenment Determination Path To Enlightenment Strong Determination

Author:Gautama Buddha

“They [the mathematicians of the Enlightenment] defined their terms vaguely and used their methods loosely, and the logic of their arguments was made to fit the dictates of their intuition. In short, they broke all the laws of rigor and of mathematical decorum. The veritable orgy which followed the introduction of the infinitesimals... was but a natural reaction. Intuition had too long been held imprisoned by the severe rigor of the Greeks. Now it broke loose, and there were no Euclids to keep its romantic flight in check.”