Top 1200 Enlightenment Thinkers Quotes & Sayings - Page 5

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Let's consider: at the time of the Buddha, when he attained enlightenment, according to the old texts, in the first watch of the night, he went through all of his past lifetimes. Then in the second watch of the night, his mind opened still further and encompassed the coming into being and dying and re-coming into being of all beings, everywhere. The third watch of the night, he realized interdependent origination. He realized interdependent origination because he saw it. It wasn't some theory he thought up. He saw it. That was his enlightenment experience. That was why he was a Buddha.

Enlightenment should be a human right.

We humans, though troubled and warlike, are also the dreams, thinkers, and explorers inhabiting one achingly beautiful planet, yearning for the sublime, and capable of the magnificent.

Enlightenment is a direct experience with reality.

Enlightenment is the experience of pure light.

In Austria, a rather authoritarian Catholic country, the role of the social admonisher traditionally fell to artists because there were no great political thinkers.

poems are small moments of enlightenment

Enlightenment is the journey back from the head to the heart.

Our public monuments are memorials to the Enlightenment.

Don't worry. These poses have nothing to do with meditation or enlightenment.

Meditation is the quickest path to enlightenment.

Enlightenment is your ego's greatest disappointment.

Positive thinkers get positive results because they are not afraid of problems.

There is no beginning to practice nor end to enlightenment; There is no beginning to enlightenment nor end to practice.

There is no enlightenment outside of daily life.

Discomfort is always a necessary part of enlightenment.

Enlightenment is "being," and it grows; it's end is serenity.

Thought depends absolutely on the stomach, but in spite of that, those who have the best stomachs are not the best thinkers.

When there is information, there is enlightenment. When there is debate, there are solutions.

Everyone pretends to be 'free thinkers', but few individuals pass the line into expressive territories that may be detrimental to their own social well-being.

The thinkers of the world should by rights be guardians of the world's mirth.

Enlightenment is the unaltered state of consciousness

Enlightenment is higher states of awareness.

Unity is divinity, purity is enlightenment.

Thinkers are scarce as gold; but he whose thoughts embrace all his subject, and who pursues it uninterruptedly and fearless of consequences, is a diamond of enormous size.

The most fluent talkers or most plausible reasoners are not always the justest thinkers.

Suffering is temporary, enlightenment is forever.

Enlightenment is ego's ultimate disappointment.

Correct thinkers think that 'baseball trivia' is an oxymoron: nothing about baseball is trivial.

Whatever is happening is the path to enlightenment.

You're told that you're in your head too much, a phrase that's often deployed against the quiet and cerebral. Or maybe there's another word for such people: thinkers.

Why don't more women attain enlightenment?

Only thin, weak thinkers despise fairy stories. Each one has a true, strange fact hidden in it, you know, which you can find if you look.

I remember thinking when I was in college that a lot of these known Chomsky-like, verbose, high-lefty thinkers made absolutely no sense, but I thought that was my problem.

The success of great scholars and thinkers is commonly a courtier-like success, not kingly, not manly.

The road to enlightenment is paved with authenticity, not imitation.

I'm very much an Enlightenment kind of guy.

Fill yourself with the power of wisdom and enlightenment.

Enlightenment comes through the feminine side of the being.

The left are afraid of independent thinkers. They are afraid of people who are able to reason and think on their own.

First doubt, then inquire, then discover. This has been the process with all our great thinkers.

Virtually all men of action incline to Fatality just as most thinkers incline to Providence.

Today’s enlightenment is tomorrows mistake

Gain is delusion; loss is enlightenment.

Enlightenment! When it comes, it comes like a brick to the head, doesn't it?

Individual thinkers since the days of Ezekiel and Isaiah have asserted that the despoliation of land is not only inexpedient but wrong. Society, however, has not yet affirmed their belief.

Psychological breakdowns are actually breakthroughs to enlightenment.

Enlightenment, don't know what it is. It's up to you, the way you think.

Enlightenment is: absolute cooperation with the inevitable.

As for enlightenment, that's just for people who can't face reality.

We live in the age of entitlement, as opposed to enlightenment.

We're movers, forward thinkers, people who get things done. But the Tea Party and Republicans like Bob Dold are holding us back.

It is the artists of the world, the feelers and the thinkers who will ultimately save us; who can articulate, educate, defy, insist, sing and shout the big dreams.

When the sufferers learn to think, then the thinkers will learn to suffer.

It has been wisely observed by the greatest of modern thinkers that mankind has progressed more rapidly in every other respect than in morality.

Painting is a means of self-enlightenment.

Some people are destined to be deep thinkers. I am not one of those people.

Enlightenment is always preceded by confusion.

Godliness is the fragrance of the man who has attained enlightenment.