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"I want to offer the possibility that Jesus was truly, as he proclaimed, a savior. Not the savior, not the one and only Son of God. Rather Jesus embodied the highest level of enlightenment."
"Morality can muddle mystical understanding and virtue is only necessary in so far as it favours success. All wisdom must be encompassed in order to achieve enlightenment."
"Enlightenment demands that you take responsibility for your way of life."
"Enlightenment, don't know what it is. It's up to you, the way you think."
"Enlightenment says the world is nothing Nothing but a dream, everything's an illusion And nothing is real."
"The Enlightenment, the Age of Reason, is seen as the beginning of modern depravity."
"If western culture is shown to be rich it is because, even before the Enlightenment, it has tried to "dissolve" harmful simplifications through inquiry and the critical mind."
"Elegance is a small price to pay for enlightenment, and I was glad to pay it."
"My idea of enlightenment is when ego and Tao are fused, and Tao is perceived as ego. Then everything happens with complete appropriateness."
"Culture is the greatest barrier to your enlightenment, your education, and your decency."
"Today’s enlightenment is tomorrows mistake"
"Start to see yourself for who you really are: a traveller, an explorer or on the path of life, confidently advancing along the path of enlightenment towards your destiny. Don't lose sight of the things that are truly vital in your life."
"No one's life is totally morbid. Even on a subtle scale there's little flashes of enlightenment and of happiness and joy."
"Because clarity and enlightenment are within your own nature, they are regained without moving an inch."
"Enlightenment is beyond self-improvement and spiritual seeking. It is the final resolution of a case of mistaken identity. It is the direct recognition of your eternal nature and the seeing through of who you have falsely believed yourself to be."
"The limits on your enlightenment come not from the age you stopped going to school but from the age you stopped being curious."
"Enlightenment is always there. Small enlightenment will bring great enlightenment."
"The 7 factors of enlightenment: mindfullness, investigation of mental objects, energy, joy, tranquility, concentration and equanimity."
"I think the degree of a nation's civilisation may be measured by the degree of enlightenment of its women."
"Libertarian socialism is properly to be regarded as the inheritor of the liberal ideals of the Enlightenment."
