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Intellectual and moral growth is no less indispensable than material amelioration... If three is anything more poignant than a body agonizing for want of bread, it is a soul dying of hunger for light.


Victor Hugo


#enlightenment #intellect #education

People who speak or act in an ordinary fashion are most likely to be those who have been the recipients of higher experiences. But because they do not rage around, wild-eyed, people think that they are very ordinary folk and therefore not aware of anything unknown to the general run of man.


Idries Shah


#inspirations #experience

By calling into question the very ideal of a universal, autonomous reason (which was, in the Enlightenment, the basis for rejecting religious thought) and further demonstrating that all knowledge is grounded in narrative or myth, Lyotard relativizes (secular) philosophy's claim to autonomy and so grants the legitimacy of a philosophy that grounds itself in Christian faith. Previously such a distinctly Christian philosophy would have been exiled from the 'pure' arena of philosophy because of its 'infection' with bias and prejudice. Lyotard's critique, however, demonstrates that no philosophy - indeed, no knowledge - is untainted by prejudice or faith commitments. In this way the playing field is leveled, and new opportunities to voice a Christian philosophy are created. Thus Lyotard's postmodern critique of metanarratives, rather than being a formidable foe of Christian faith and thought, can in fact be enlisted as an ally in the construction of a Christian philosophy.


James K.A. Smith


#christianity #knowledge #lyotard #metanarrative #narrative

Perhaps one day, all these conflicts will end, and it won't be because of great statesmen or churches or organisations like this one. It'll be because people have changed. They'll be like you, Puffin. More a mixture. So why not become a mongrel? It's healthy.


Kazuo Ishiguro


#conflict #enlightenment #family #harmony #idealism

The true value of a human being can be found in the degree to which he has attained liberation from the self.


Albert Einstein


#freedom #peace #freedom

Within each of us is a light, awake, encoded in the fibers of our existence. Divine ecstasy is the totality of this marvelous creation experienced in the hearts of humanity


Tony Samara


#consciousness #enlightenment #evolution #foundation #freedom

Sometimes you just gotta wear the tinfoil hat.


Gary Hopkins


#energy-healing #enlightenment #funny-humor #god #higher-self

Your only limitations are those that you impose upon yourself


Gary Hopkins


#empowerment #energy-healing #enlightenment #god #higher-self

Anything worth having doesn’t come easy' is a perception of negativity perpetuated by misery looking for company. Accept nothing but the opposite of this intention and soon your life will navigate away from perpetual negative thinking and outcomes to the endless positive quality of life that exists for all of us


Gary Hopkins


#enlightenment #god #higher-self #holy-spirit #inspirational

A compulsive external search only leads us to the interpretation of another’s path. True identity and sustained harmony can only be achieved by turning inward, and it is there that you will find every answer that you need to step into enlightenment


Gary Hopkins


#enlightenment #god #higher-self #holy-spirit #inspirational