“Enlightenment is not about being political. It is not a social club. Ashrams often turn into that, I know. Societies of enlightenment often just become cliques.” KnowsPoliticalTurnsSocialBuddhismEnlightenmentClubsClique Author:Frederick Lenz
“Beware of the manipulativeness of rich students who were neglected by their parents. They love to turn the campus into hysterical psychodramas of sexual transgression, followed by assertions of parental authority and concern. And don't look for sexual enlightenment from academe, which spews out mountains of books but never looks at life directly.” LooksBookTurnsParentRichStudentsMountainAuthorityEnlightenmentConcernNeglectedAssertionCampusParentalHystericalTransgressionParental Authority Book:Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays Source: Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays
“We must therefore turn to history for enlightenment; here we find that none of the proclaimed anarchist groups correspond to the libertarian position, that even the best of them have unrealistic and socialistic elements in their doctrines. Furthermore, we find that all of the current anarchists are irrational collectivists, and therefore at opposite poles from our position. We must therefore conclude that we are not anarchists, and that those who call us anarchists are not on firm etymological ground, and are being completely unhistorical.” TurnsGroupsPositionElementsEnlightenmentOppositesCurrentsLibertarianDoctrineFirmIrrationalAnarchismAnarchist Author:Murray Rothbard
“I was already writing about the idea of a 'multiverse' in the 1970s, though I might have called it the 'pluriverse.' How was I to know it would turn out to be the standard model? Actually, I consider myself an enlightenment fossil.” KnowsWritingIdeasMightTurnsModelsStandardsEnlightenmentFossilsMultiverse Author:Charles Jencks
“There have been many measures taken to try to turn the educational system towards more control, more indoctrination, more vocational training, imposing a debt, which traps students and young people into a life of conformity... That's the exact opposite of [what] traditionally comes out of The Enlightenment. And there's a constant struggle between those. In the colleges, in the schools, do you train for passing tests, or do you train for creative inquiry?” PeopleTryingHas BeensSchoolYoungTurnsStruggleCreativeTakenStudentsCollegeTrainingEnlightenmentTestsOppositesConstantTrainEducationalDebtPassingPassingsConformityTrapsInquiryImposingIndoctrinationEducational SystemConstant StruggleVocational TrainingPassing A Test Author:Noam Chomsky
“The one and only thing required is to free oneself from the bondage of mind and body alike, putting the Buddha's own seal upon yourself. If you do this as you sit in ecstatic meditation, the whole universe itself scattered through the infinity of space turns into enlightenment. This is what I mean by the Buddha's seal.” IfsMindMeanWholeBodyTurnsUniverseSpaceMeditationEnlightenmentOneselfInfinityBondageMind And BodySealsEcstatic Author:Dogen
“We can step out of our small sense of self and awaken to this reality. One of the reasons people get confused about freedom, enlightenment, and liberation is because this awakened consciousness has different facets or different dimensions, a bit like a crystal. If you hold this luminous crystal up to the light and turn it, it will take a beam of white light and refract it into the many colors of the spectrum.” PeopleIfsDifferentSelfReasonRealityLightTurnsBitsWhiteConsciousnessStepsColorEnlightenmentLiberationConfusedDimensionsCrystalsSpectrumAwakenedSense Of SelfBeamLuminousFacetsWhite LightDifferent Dimensions Author:Jack Kornfield
“There is too much ideological conformity in gender studies. The true-believers fashion the theories, write the textbooks and teach the students. When journalists, policymakers, and legislators address topics such as the wage gap, gender and education, or women's health, they turn to these experts for enlightenment. For the most part, they peddle misinformation, victim politics, and sophistry. They claim that their teachings represent the academic consensus, but that is only because they have excluded all dissenters.” WritingTurnsTeachStudyToo MuchTeachingFashionStudentsTheoryEnlightenmentClaimsVictimGenderBelieverJournalistExpertsAddressesGapsConformityAcademicTopicsConsensusIdeologicalTextbooksLegislatorsExcludedMisinformationTrue BelieverSophistryWomen's Health Author:Christina Hoff Sommers
“There is a flaw with words, they always force us to feel enlightened, but when we turn around to face the world they always fail us and we end up facing the world as we always have, without enlightenment” WorldFeelsEndsFacesTurnsForceFailingWords Of WisdomEnlightenmentWarriorEnlightenedFlawsDon JuanJuan Book:Tales of Power Source: Tales of Power