The progress of human enlightenment can go no further than in picturing people not as vicious, but as mistaken.
It's a very complicated matter to become enlightened. If it happens to a person without a teacher in this lifetime, you can bet their boots, they've had about a thousand teachers in their last thousand lives because it's a very complicated thing to do.
It is not after we understand the truth that we attain enlightenment. To realize the truth is to live - to exist here and now.
After enlightenment, the laundry.
Yoga practice seems to be used to access some deeper dimension or some enlightened state. Understand right now there is no connection between flexibility and enlightenment.
Cultural contamination that is directed outward is always seen as ‘enlightenment.
Enlightenment means waking up to what you truly are and then being that.
Every right quote is a golden stair to enlightenment!
Enlightenment is represented by Sri Krishna, who is said to be an avatar.
You British plundered half the world for your own profit. Let's not pass it off as the Age of Enlightenment.
The Art of Peace begins with you.
If on the one side we do not harbor the illusion that the entire proletariat must be enlightened before it can be called into battle, so on the other we do not doubt that as much enlightenment as possible must be produced with oral and printed agitation.
Don't worry. These poses have nothing to do with meditation or enlightenment.
Every day, think as you wake up, today I am fortunate to be alive, I have a precious human life, I am not going to waste it. I am going to use all my energies to develop myself, to expand my heart out to others; to achieve enlightenment for the benefit of all beings. I am going to have kind thoughts towards others, I am not going to get angry or think badly about others. I am going to benefit others as much as I can.
Ignorance has always been the weapon of tyrants; enlightenment the salvation of the free.
I hope you will attain enlightenment. I am here to tell you that you already have! But you don't know. . . The difference between the Buddha and us is the confidence in knowing that he was enlightened.
What women have done is developed a survival mechanism, and it's a fascinating one and it's been effective and justified, in my opinion. That is the ability to manipulate men sexually.
The day effort ceased, I also ceased. Because you cannot exist without effort, and you cannot exist without desire, and you cannot exist without striving.
Liberals have a set of folk theories that are fallacious. One of them comes from the Enlightenment, and the assumption is that you are supposed to be logical. They assume all you have to do is tell people the facts and they will reason to the right conclusion. This is utterly ridiculous. Thought is mainly metaphorical. The frames trump all the facts.
The enlightenment experience is not what you think. How could it be anything that you can configure, anything you can imagine, any way that you think it should be?