“Don't think you can attain total awareness and whole enlightenment without proper discipline and practice. This is egomania. Appropriate rituals channel your emotions and life energy toward the light. Without the discipline to practice them, you will tumble constantly backward into darkness.” ThinkingLifeWholeLightActionEnergyEmotionPracticeDarknessAwarenessDisciplineEnlightenmentAppropriateRitualMasterySelf MasteryEgomania Book:Hua Hu Ching: Teachings of Lao Tzu Source: Hua Hu Ching: Teachings of Lao Tzu
“The United States cannot reshape other countries in its own image and that, with a few exceptions, its efforts to police the world are neither in its interests nor within the scope of its resources. This whole tendency to see ourselves as the center of political enlightenment and as teachers to a great part of the rest of the world strikes me as unthought-through, vainglorious and undesirable.” WorldCountryStatesWholeAmericaPoliticalInterestUnitedEffortUnited StatesTeacherEnlightenmentResourcesPoliceStrikesTendenciesExceptionOther CountriesScopeUndesirable Author:George F. Kennan
“There's not really a whole lot you could say about liberation. The closest experience you can have of it is to come meditate with someone who is liberated.” WholeEnlightenmentLiberationClosestLiberated Author:Frederick Lenz
“One of the greatest things that ever taught me a super lesson was when I seen a baby come out of my woman's womb. Seeing this war that could end with both lives being lost, or both lives being made, gave me an enlightenment of life itself. It sparked my whole mind to a whole other level of living. And if I never would have seen it, I never would have understood life. I never would have appreciated life.” IfsMindMadeWarEndsWholeLostLevelsSeeingTaughtBabyLessonsEnlightenmentUnderstoodAppreciatedWomb Author:RZA
“Its taken 14 billion years for matter to gain the capacity to become conscious of itself. If this is true, it wouldn't make any sense that the whole point of enlightenment would be to escape from the whole process at the very instant that the universe is beginning to awaken to itself.” IfsLifeYearsMatterWholeWould BeSpiritualityUniverseProcessTakenEvolutionEnlightenmentConsciousGainsCapacityAwakeningBillionsInstant Author:Andrew Cohen
“In a very philosophic sense I think doing the work is itself a good thing. But at the end of the day, since we're taking other people's shekels to do it, and their work is being able to make a return out of it, it forces you to consider the fact that you're doing it for other people. The whole construct is built around the assumption that it's going to get shared, and that someone else is going to find value in it - entertainment, catharsis, enlightenment, or whatever.” PeopleThinkingEndsWholeFactsAbleValuesForceReturnEnlightenmentBuiltGood ThingsEntertainmentAssumptionThe End Of The DayConstructsCatharsisPhilosophic Author:Edward Norton
“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
“Only a development of thought achieved through the self-education of the whole man can prevent any body of thought whatsoever from becoming a poison; can prevent enlightenment from becoming an agent of death.” MenSelfWholeBodyDevelopmentBecomingEnlightenmentAgentsPoisonSelf Education Book:Way to Wisdom: An Introduction to Philosophy Source: Way to Wisdom: An Introduction to Philosophy
“All the buddhas of all the ages have been telling you a very simple fact: Be — don´t try to become. Within these two words, be and becoming, your whole life is contained. Being is enlightenment, becoming is ignorance." Osho” TryingHas BeensTwoWholeFactsAgeLife IsSimpleIgnoranceBecomingEnlightenmentWhole LifeLive In The Moment Author:Rajneesh
“Your enlightenment is perfect only when silence has come to be a celebration. Hence my insistence that after you meditate you must celebrate. After you have been silent you must enjoy it, you must have a thanksgiving. A deep gratitude must be shown towards the whole just for the opportunity that you are, that you can meditate, that you can be silent, that you can laugh.” Has BeensWholeOpportunityEnjoyPerfectSilenceLaughingMeditationGratitudeEnlightenmentSilentCelebrateCelebrationInsistenceDeep Gratitude Author:Rajneesh
“When this awareness grows, dreaming stops, by and by. When this awareness grows, the wheel moves slower and slower, because there is no point. You never move, so what is the point of travelling the whole earth? You remain the same; then desires slow down. One day it happens: the wheel is as silent, as unmoving as the hub. That is the point when enlightenment happens.” WholeDreamHappensEarthMovingDesireGrowsAwarenessOne DayEnlightenmentSilentWheelsSlow DownNo PointHub Author:Rajneesh
“Life is an endless, truly endless struggle. There's no time when we're going to arrive at a plateau where the whole thing gets sorted. It's a struggle in the way every plant has to find it's own way to stand up straight. A lot of the time it's a failure. And yet it's not a failure if some enlightenment comes from it.” IfsWayWholeSpiritualLife IsStruggleEnlightenmentPlantEndless Author:Arthur Miller
“Whether or not enlightenment is a plausible goal for us is a vital question for our lives. If it is possible for us to attain such perfect enlightenment ourselves, our whole sense of meaning and our place in the universe immediately changes. To be open to the possibility is to be a spiritual seeker, no matter what our religion. Enlightenment is not meant to be an object of religious faith. It is an evolutionary goal.” IfsMatterWholeSpiritualUniverseGoalReligiousPerfectOur LivesPossibilityObjectsEnlightenmentNo Matter WhatMeant To BeSeekersReligious FaithPlausible Author:Robert Thurman
“The whole purpose of life is to gain enlightenment. Nothing else is significant compared to that completely natural, exalted state of consciousness. So always strive for that. Set your life around that goal. Don't get caught up in small things, and then it will be yours.” StatesWholeLife IsPurposeGoalNaturalConsciousnessEnlightenmentGainsStriveCaughtSignificantPurpose Of LifeCaught UpSmall ThingsExaltedStates Of Consciousness Author:Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
“There are 3 levels to play the game of life. In 1st level, you identify yourself with a group such as family, friend circle, fan group or a group based on ideology, geography, language etc. At this level, you play against the group which is against your group. In 2nd level, your identify with a body-mind and play against or with rest of the universe. In 3rd level, you identify yourself as nothing and play with everything as a whole. Nothing and everything are same. So 3rd level is not a play. It's Samadhi.” LifeMindSoulWholeBuddhismEnlightenmentHinduismNothingness Author:Shunya