Top 1200 Age Of Enlightenment Quotes & Sayings - Page 15

A man's diary is a record in youth of his sentiments, in middle age of his actions, in old age of his reflections.

Enlightenment means that you've become a sophisticated perceiver, without letting anyone know that you're sophisticated.

Enlightenment must come little by little - otherwise it would overwhelm.

Care, but don't be pushy! Don't preach about enlightenment to people who don't really want to hear about it.

Zen approaches it from the practical side of life-that is, to work out Enlightenment in life itself.

As a student of enlightenment your attitude should not be to become enlightened. It should be to learn.

There is an alternative. It's an old alternative. It's not for everybody. It's only for people who are smart, limited market. It's enlightenment.

I think people get confused about who Merlin is. It's not his age that makes him: it's wisdom, and wisdom is not necessarily linked to age. Definitely not in the same way in the world of 'Once Upon a Time.'

The process of eliminating the samskaras and reaching complete enlightenment is very technical, wonderful, and mystical process.

There is no fundamental difference between the preparation for death and the practice of dying, and spiritual practice leading to enlightenment.

Civilization is not a spontaneous generation with any race or nation known to history, but the torch is handed down from race to race and from age to age, and gains in brilliancy as it goes.

As human beings we value the experience that comes with age. We are reminded over and over again with statements like older and wiser and respect your elders, promoting age as something to be cherished and respected.

Neither my life of luxury in the palace -nor- my life as ascetic in the forest were ways to enlightenment.

With actors, all our ages are out there for all to see - you can't hide anything, really. And it's kind of a relief. This is my age, this is what I look like without makeup on - who cares? That youth culture - that lying about your age - it's all denial of death anyway.

The secrets of alchemy exist to transform mortals from a state of suffering and ignorance to a state of enlightenment and bliss.

The day-to-day life we lead has nothing to do with enlightenment. It is just around the corner, and we don't see it.

Paradoxically, the more deeply one grows in enlightenment, the more clearly one discerns one's own frailties and limitations.

Nirvana and enlightenment exist just on the other side of your sensory perceptions and your thoughts.

Elegance is a small price to pay for enlightenment, and I was glad to pay it.

I have not in this lifetime yet met one person who earnestly seeks enlightenment in the West. Not one person.

Something in you wants to go beyond, wants to be free from this endless round of perception. Enlightenment is that.

I think age is just a number - if you are young enough, you are old enough - as long as you are good enough, age shouldn't come into it.

I've got more friends than I've ever had in my life at the age of 39 - although given that I didn't have any friends until the age of 27, it doesn't say much - because I found the internet.

One thing that's likely: How you look as you age is hereditary. Some of my family members, for example, look younger than their real age. And people have mistaken me for 30, even 25.

You don't plan on doing reality TV if you plan on getting involved in politics. My show was pretty benign, but you do say and do things that are dumb at that age. Those shows have me locked in at age 25.

Meditation is the pathway to enlightenment, and I would encourage you to follow that pathway as far as you can, into ecstasy.

Age doesn't mean anything. Its all in your head. Men get sexier with age. They also get wiser and get experienced.

I hate the bloody highways. I hate hamburgers, I hate Greyhound buses. I'd have liked to have been in America during the Jazz Age, or the Golden Age of Hollywood.

Tantric Zen is the awareness of the infinitude of all things. To gain that awareness, to be it, is enlightenment.

Your enlightenment is more powerful than your ignorance.

Enlightenment will be now the beginning, not the end. Beginning of a non-ending process in all dimensions of richness.

Be humble in order to attain enlightenment. Thus, after attaining it, be more humble still.

Enlightenment is simply sanity~ the sanity in which I see my real situation in the living fabric of all that exists.

When you are realized, you can start feeling your own chakras and the chakras of other people. This is enlightenment.

Enlightenment values of individual freedom are manifested best in individual acts of criticism and defiance.

Enlightenment is not a state of mind, yet all states of mind are contained within it.

We have had the stone age; we have had the iron age; and now we have the sky age, and the sky telegraph, and sky men, and sky cities. Mountains of stone are built out of men's visions. Towers and skyscrapers swing up out of their wills and up out of their hearts.

Age shouldn't affect you. It's just like the size of your shoes - they don't determine how you live your life! You're either marvellous or you're boring, regardless of your age.

It's one thing to have the attitude of enlightenment and another thing to act in an enlightened way, which is conduct or activity.

From the highest state of mind you have a window whereby you could perhaps move beyond all states of mind, to enlightenment.

Enlightenment is an accident, but some activities make you accident-prone.

Monarchs not only fashion their age, but are fashioned by it, so that they can become a sort of personification of the age. If Elizabeth I, independent, strong, represents the age of Shakespeare's heroines, a woman's heyday, Victoria represents another image of womanhood, predominant in the nineteenth century: a woman who, although queen in her own right, leaned on her husband, looked up to him, and went into perpetual mourning after his death. The feminist movement filled her with shocked horror and outrage.

My music is not just about entertainment. It is about enlightenment also.

At my age, 85, I'm at age where I can look back and derive some conclusions about my actions. My rule has been try to learn, try to understand what happened. Develop the lessons and pass them on.

As human beings we value the experience that comes with age. We are reminded over and over again with statements like 'older and wiser' and 'respect your elders,' promoting age as something to be cherished and respected.

You can have a spiritual awakening and discover a new side of you at any age. And best of all, love can happen at any age. Life can just start to get exciting when you're in your 40s and 50s. You have to believe that.

Meditate on enlightenment. Read the exploits of the great teachers, the great saints. They'll inspire you. Their power is there.

Amputechture' is my personal way of describing enlightenment, or just the celebration of this person who is a shaman and not a crazy person.

In my life I do look up to actors, at my age I ask myself, who else is playing interesting parts at my age which is very difficult for a female actor. On top of it, being a minority, having come from China makes it harder.

Tantric Zen is the exploration of everything, since everything is a part of enlightenment.

Most kids start playing hockey at the age of five, I was an earlier bloomer. My parents laced up my first pair of skates and put me on the ice at the young age of 2 ½, basically right after I mastered walking.

Enlightenment is already there inside us and all things. All we have to do is get something out of the way that is causing us not to see that.

It is not after we understand the truth that we attain enlightenment. To realize the truth is to live - to exist here and now.

Do not cling to anything, to any idea; because clinging is the bondage, even to the idea of enlightenment.

Why the increasing emphasis by professional age experts and the media on - and public acceptance of - the nursing home as the locus of age when, in fact, more than ninety percent of those over sixty-five continue to live in the community?

I think the degree of a nation's civilisation may be measured by the degree of enlightenment of its women.

Trying to find a buddha or enlightenment is like trying to grab space.

I've always been very impatient. At age 10 I frankly found life boring, and I can remember age 9 having the awful thought, as it seems now looking back on it, A war! That should liven things up a bit!

The goal of society in general is to succeed in the world, whereas the goal of enlightenment is to transcend beyond it.

Sometimes it takes more courage not to let yourself see. Sometimes knowledge is damaging - not enlightenment but enleadenment.