#enlightenment

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[Men] prefer the foolish belief and the passions of the earth [to the enlightenment of their souls]. They believe the absurd and shrink from the truth." "No, they do not. They are afraid, that is all. And they must remain on earth until they come to the way of leaving it." "And how do they leave? How is the ascent made? Must one learn virtue?" Here she laughs. "You have read too much, and learned too little. Virtue is a road, not a destination. Man cannot be virtuous. Understanding is the goal. When that is achieved, the soul can take wing.


Iain Pears


#enlightenment #fear #mankind #philosophy #soul

As much as we look up at the stars and know there is more than life on earth, the divinity of dogs is just as unexplainable and profound. They may be the purest example of divine love in an earthly soul many of us ever experience. If we take their lead, open our hearts, and embrace their love, we may just find our own journey a lot more enlightening.


Jennifer Skiff


#dogs #enlightenment #journey #love #experience

The sea is only the embodiment of a supernatural and wonderful existence. It is nothing but love and emotion; it is the ‘Living Infinite...


Jules Verne


#exploration #infinite #journey #meditation #spirituality

I want certain conversations to come equipped with antilock brakes, especially if I'm talking to a real airbag.


Jarod Kintz


#airheads #conversations #enlightenment #humor #humor

You necessarily have to be lost, before you’re found.


T. Scott McLeod


#buddhism #dark-night-of-the-soul #enlightenment #love #meditation

For thousands of years humans were oppressed— as some of us still are— by the notion that the universe is a marionette whose strings are pulled by a god or gods, unseen and inscrutable. Then, 2,500 years ago, there was a glorious awakening in Ionia: on Samos and the other nearby Greek colonies that grew up among the islands and inlets of the busy eastern Aegean Sea.* Suddenly there were people who believed that everything was made of atoms; that human beings and other animals had sprung from simpler forms; that diseases were not caused by demons or the gods; that the Earth was only a planet going around the Sun. And that the stars were very far away.


Carl Sagan


#greece #ionia #knowledge #learning #reality

In that nanosecond of enlightenment I knew that the human spirit survives the death of the physical body and I understood that my wandering soul needed to get back into its earthly habitat.


Janet Bettag


#brain-aneurysm #enlightenment #human-spirit #inspirational #near-death-experience

One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.


Carl Jung


#darkness #enlightenment #light #imagination

Enlightenment, and the death which comes before it, is the primary business of Varanasi.


Tahir Shah


#enlightenment #india #travel #varanasi #business

From a mind filled with infinite love comes the power to create infinite possibilities. We have the power to think in ways that reflect and attract all the love in the world. Such thinking is called enlightenment. Enlightenment is not a process we work toward, but a choice available to us in any instant.


Marianne Williamson


#love #potential #present-moment #love