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“Without doubt machines will be able to determine the means and avenues to goals, but men will continue to set the goals themselves. For what machine can ever apply the considerations of compassion and justice which, as man's enlightenment spreads ... will enter ever more into the decisions that affect his future ... in the universe?”

Men Mean Able Universe Goal Justice Decision Business Compassion Doubt Enlightenment Machines Determine Spread Consideration Avenues

Author:Lewis Strauss

“Women have very powerful second chakras, and the goal is to move that energy up and use it.”

Use Moving Energy Women Goal Powerful Enlightenment Very Powerful Chakra

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Religions have always stressed that compassion is not only central to religious life, it is the key to enlightenment and it the true test of spirituality. But there have always have been those who'd rather put easier goals, like doctrine conformity, in place.”

Has Beens Spirituality Goal Religious Compassion Keys Easier Enlightenment Tests Doctrine Conformity Setting Goals Stressed Religious Life

Author:Karen Armstrong

“Christianity has held back any further advances in human consciousness for the past thousand years. And for the past century it's been in direct conflict with its illegitimate offspring, Communism (again with a capital C). Both ask the individual to sacrifice his self-interest to the higher goals of the organization. (Which is okay by me as long as it's voluntary; but as soon as either becomes too big - and takes on that damned capital C - they stop asking for cooperation and start demanding it.) Any higher states of human enlightenment have been sacrificed between these two monoliths.”

“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

“You discover the goal of existence by living it. The present is the only time when you can evolve, experience the divine, expand your awareness, or reach enlightenment. But this cannot be a haphazard journey that falters and wanders off the path. It's easy for that to happen when a crisis develops. Sudden losses and setbacks shake everyone up; those who keep moving forward are buoyed by knowing that their path cannot be destroyed, only interrupted.”

Source: Spiritual Solutions: Answers to Life's Greatest Challenges

“God is your very being. So the first thing is, don't think about enlightenment as a goal.”

Thinking Firsts Goal Enlightenment

Author:Rajneesh

“In an evolutionary context, the goal of the spiritual life is not peace; it's perpetual development. Evolutionary enlightenment is about the ecstasy that compels us to create the future. And it's not a future that's going to unfold by itself while we go back to sleep. It's a future that we forge the hard way through direct, conscious, intentional engagement with the life-process itself.”

Way Hard Spiritual Life Is Spirituality Process Goal Sleep Development Enlightenment Conscious Direct Ecstasy Engagement Spiritual Life Perpetual Hard Way

Author:Andrew Cohen

“A purpose derived from a false premise - that a deity has ordained submission to his will - cannot merit respect. The pursuit of Enlightenment-era goals - solving our world's problems through rational discourse, rather than through religion and tradition - provides ample grounds for a purposive existence. It is not for nothing that the Enlightenment, when atheism truly began to take hold, was also known as the Age of Reason.”

World Reason Problem Age Purpose Goal Existence Known Atheism Enlightenment Tradition Pursuit Rational Eras Merit Our World Discourse Submission Deities Premises Age Of Reason

Author:Jeffrey Tayler