“And when you talk about realization, accomplishment for that matter enlightenment is that when you realize the fundamental essence of your mind.” MindMatterRealizingEnlightenmentEssenceFundamentalsRealizationAccomplishment Author:Sogyal Rinpoche
“Society needs to see science not as a luxury of funding but as a fundamental activity that drives enlightenment, economics, and security.” NeedsSecurityActivityEnlightenmentEconomicsFundamentalsLuxuryFunding Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson
“Authenticity is fundamental, more fundamental than spiritual enlightenment. Without authenticity, no genuine spiritual enlightenment is possible. Authenticity is the state of being committed to truth. Truth is simple. And no matter how simply a truth is stated, only those who have walked the path of understanding and evolution on their own can know and understand it authentically. The path of truth is the path least traveled. Authenticity is the clarity of being in which there is no self-deceit.” KnowsSelfMatterStatesSpiritualUnderstandingSimplePathEvolutionTruth IsEnlightenmentFundamentalsCommittedGenuineAuthenticityClarityDeceitTraveledSpiritual Enlightenment Author:Yasuhiko Kimura
“The closing of our earthly eyes is such a simple event. The shedding of the physical body does not solve the fundamental problems of enlightenment, just as changing ones clothes has nothing to do with the deep questions of life and destiny.” DoeProblemBodyEyeSimpleDestinyEventsClothesEnlightenmentFundamentalsSolveClosingPhysical BodyLife And Destiny Author:Andre Luiz Moreira
“The most fundamental challenge of the anthropocene concerns agency. For those who lived the Enlightenment dream (always a minority but an influential one), agency was taken for granted. There were existential threats to agency (e.g., determinism) but philosophy mobilized to refute these threats (e.g., by defending libertarianism) or to defuse them (e.g., by showing that they were compatible with agency).” PhilosophyDreamChallengesTakenEnlightenmentConcernFundamentalsThreatGrantedAgencyMinoritiesLibertarianismExistentialInfluentialCompatibleDeterminismTaken For Granted Author:Dale Jamieson
“Marx's early manuscripts, with their roots in the Enlightenment and Romanticism, derived fundamental concepts such as alienation from a conception of human nature - what we would call genetically determined.” HumansHuman NatureEnlightenmentConceptsRootsFundamentalsDeterminedConceptionAlienationRomanticismManuscripts Author:Noam Chomsky
“There is no fundamental difference between the preparation for death and the practice of dying, and spiritual practice leading to enlightenment.” SpiritualDifferencesPracticeDyingEnlightenmentFundamentalsPreparationDeath And DyingSpiritual PracticePreparation For Death Author:Stanislav Grof
“People say that practicing Zen is difficult, but there is a misunderstanding as to why. It is not difficult because it is hard to sit in the cross- legged position, or to attain enlightenment. It is difficult because it is hard to keep our mind pure and our practice pure in its fundamental sense.” PeopleMindHardDifficultPracticePositionPureEnlightenmentCrossesFundamentalsMisunderstanding Book:Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind Source: Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind