"Nonresistance, nonjudgment, and nonattachment are the three aspects of true freedom and enlightened living."
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"Faith is a continuum, and we each fall on that line where we may. By attempting to rigidly classify ethereal concepts like faith, we end up debating semantics to the point where we entirely miss the obvious - that is, that we are all trying to decipher life's big mysteries, and we're each following our own paths of enlightenment."
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"I came to the conclusion that we should aspire to increase the scope and scale of human consciousness in order to better understand what questions to ask. Really, the only thing that makes sense is to strive for greater collective enlightenment."
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"There are many paths to enlightenment. Be sure to take the one with a heart."
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"Before enlightenment; chop wood, carry water. After enlightenment; chop wood, carry water."
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"Your time has a limit set to it. Use it, then, to advance your enlightenment; or it will be gone, and never in your power again."
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"Nothing ever exists entirely alone; everything is in relation to everythiong else."
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"There is no enlightenment outside of daily life."
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"A man searching for enlightenment is like a man sitting on an Ass in search of an Ass"
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"We look for the Secret - the Philosopher's Stone, the Elixir of the Wise, Supreme Enlightenment, 'God' or whatever...and all the time it is carrying us about...It is the human nervous system itself."
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"The enlightened attention rejects nothing nor welcomes anything-like a mirror it responds equally to all."
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"When we must deal with problems, we instinctively resist trying the way that leads through obscurity and darkness. We wish to hear only of unequivocal results, and completely forget that these results can only be brought about when we have ventured into and emerged again from the darkness. But to penetrate the darkness we must summon all the powers of enlightenment that consciousness can offer."
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"Great beauty, great strength, and great riches are really and truly of no great use; a right heart exceeds all"
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"Enlightenment is always there. Small enlightenment will bring great enlightenment. If you breathe in and are aware that you are alive - that you can touch the miracle of being alive - then that is a kind of enlightenment."
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"Every day is a new opportunity to work with what you have inside toward enlightenment."
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"Really, the only thing that makes sense is to strive for greater collective enlightenment."
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"There are two obstacles to enlightenment: 1. Thinking you know. 2 Thinking you don't know."
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"Neither my life of luxury in the palace -nor- my life as ascetic in the forest were ways to enlightenment."
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"I gained nothing at all from Supreme Enlightenment, and for that very reason it is called Supreme Enlightenment."
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"Art is never decoration, embellishment; instead, it is work of enlightenment. Art, in other words, is a technique for acquiring liberty."
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