Top 1200 Path To Enlightenment Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

Courage in the path is what makes the path manifest itself.

The best path to power combines two things: 1) a path that not many are taking and 2) something that you are capable and comfortable with doing.

Carla Hesse has given us an astonishing new look at women's struggle for independent expression and moral autonomy during the French Revolution and afterward. Denied the political and civil rights of men, literary women plunged into the expanded world of publication, answering the men's philosophical treatises with provocative novels about women's choices and chances. Lively and learned, The Other Enlightenment links women from Madame de Stael to Simone de Beauvoir in an alternate and daring path to the modern.

The path of knowledge is said to be difficult in that it is the path of Samadhi.

One door shuts, and another one opens, and you just kind of follow that path. My path has been a little curvy, but it is what it is. It's all good.

Any path is only a path, and there is no affront to oneself or to others, in dropping it if that is what your heart tells you.

I believe that there is no path other than the path of peace.

With science it's very important not to go down the wrong path, but the wrong path in science is a path you go down where everything you learn is already known. So you need to steer around the obvious.

Choosing one path means abandoning others - if you try to follow every possible path you will end up following none.

Writing a story is like going down a path in the woods. You follow the path. You don't worry about getting lost. You just go.

Traveler, there is no path, the path must be forged as you walk.

Sanity and enlightenment...I've been reading a new book Dogen's Genjo Koan: Three Commentaries, and it contains a commentary on Genjo Koan by Shunryu Suzuki, the author who wrote Zen Mind, Beginners Mind. He doesn't mention sanity at all but I think that one possible definition of enlightenment would be a kind of profound sanity, where being insane is no longer an option.

It is a lesson we all need - to let alone the things that do not concern us. He has other ways for others to follow Him; all do not go by the same path. It is for each of us to learn the path by which He requires us to follow Him, and to follow Him in that path.

The path of least resistance is the path of the loser.

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In order to have faith in his own path, he does not need to prove that someone else's path is wrong.

At the Cruiserweight Classic finale, I said... I don't know if people had looked it up, or if they had heard it before, but it was an old Zen proverb. 'Before enlightenment, chop wood, carry water. After enlightenment, you chop wood, carry water.' It can be interpreted a lot of ways, but for the most part it's about staying in the moment.

The only roads of enquiry there are to think of: one, that it is and that it is not possible for it not to be, this is the path of persuasion (for truth is its companion); the other, that it is not and that it must not be - this I say to you is a path wholly unknowable.

I have always stuck to my guns about what I want from the work and what interests me. I've never been seduced down the evil path. The path of taking the money.

The path of violence has not yielded anything. Shed guns and adopt the path of peace, unity, goodwill and brotherhood.

With no surroundings there can be no path, and with no path one cannot become free.

If you have made the good profession, if you claimed to have passed through the gate, if you have received baptism in a public declaration of your faith, and you begin to walk-it doesn't matter how long it appears you're walking in that path-if you step off that path and there's no discipline and you continue on that path, you can have no assurance whatsoever of your salvation. And it is not that you lost your salvation, it's that you're showing now that you never had it. If we would only preach these truths

If there is one path above all others to war, it is the path of weakness and disunity.

I feel I'm following my path. I'm living my truth, and my path is storytelling.

it is only courage on the path itself that makes the path appear

There is no ONE right way, no ONE sure-fire path to success, and it is usually the path itself that should be most cherished.

All of us have a path to follow and the path begins on earth.

Shri Krishna says: "Better die in your own path than attempt the path of another."

Along the blade of a knife lies the path of paradox—the single most worthy path of the fearless mind . . . .

By following "the path of reverie"-a constantly downhill path-consciousness relaxes and wanders-and consequently becomes clouded. So it is never the right time, when one is dreaming, to "do phenomenology."

A purpose derived from a false premise - that a deity has ordained submission to his will - cannot merit respect. The pursuit of Enlightenment-era goals - solving our world's problems through rational discourse, rather than through religion and tradition - provides ample grounds for a purposive existence. It is not for nothing that the Enlightenment, when atheism truly began to take hold, was also known as the Age of Reason.

Sometimes I'll go down a path, and I'll just pray that something's going to come to get me out of this path that I'm on.

You should not feel that your path is the only right path and that other paths are wrong. You mustn't bear malice toward others.

My favorite definition of the mindful path is the one the reveals itself as you walk down it. You cannot find the path until you step on to it.

We embark unhesitatingly on the path, in a direction that is absolutely right and urgent, supported by everyone, in the knowledge that this path is but a learning process

I realized that the ignorance was profound. I don't mean that in a pejorative sense, it's just that people didn't know what the Shari'a was, as such. They knew that it was something good. I should say perhaps that the Shari'a, etymologically in Arabic, means a desert path to water. It means a path towards salvation, in the seventh-century context, to the desert people. If you have a path to water, that's the path you want to take to get you where you want to get to; where you should get to. And that much was clear but beyond that people didn't know what the rules were.

The path of spiritual growth is a path of lifelong learning.

Democracy cannot be imposed on any nation from the outside. Each society must search for its own path, and no path is perfect.

I have not always chosen the safest path. I've made my mistakes, plenty of them. I sometimes jump too soon and fail to appreciate the consequences. But I've learned something important along the way: I've learned to heed the call of my heart. I've learned that the safest path is not always the best path and I've learned that the voice of fear is not always to be trusted.

Allow for many paths to your goal. Do not fixate on one path, because then you are likely to give up when that path is blocked.

There are many goals but one path - the path of compassion.

First you must find... another shrubbery! Then, when you have found the shrubbery, you must place it here, beside this shrubbery, only slightly higher so you get a two layer effect with a little path running down the middle. ("A path! A path!") Then, you must cut down the mightiest tree in the forrest... with... a herring!

A path is something you create as you walk it. The ground you've trodden hardens, and that's what forms your path. You're the only one who can create your own path. Walk on your own. If you haven't given up yet, that is.

The easy, gentle, and sloping path . . . is not the path of true virtue. It demands a rough and thorny road.

One path alone leads to a life of peace. The path of virtue.

There was no other path for me. I knew this was my path. I had to follow it.

I feel that one thing that a businessman can learn is do not follow a path that has already been successful. You will never be a path-breaker then.

Before you embark on it you ask the question: Does this path have a heart? If the answer is no, you will know it, and then you must choose another path.

The path of descent is the path of transformation. Darkness, failure, relapse, death, and woundedness are our primary teachers, rather than ideas or doctrines.

As I read the New Testament, I find only one path to salvation - the path of an informed faith in Jesus Christ.

When we speak of the Path we mean much more than a course of study. The Path is a way of life and on it the whole being must co-operate if the heights are to be won.

Destiny doesn't control your life, but it does place you on a path. It's how you walk down that path that determines stories I tell.

There will always be a easy path and a right path.

Ultimately, you must forget about technique. The further you progress, the fewer teachings there are. The Great Path is really NO PATH.

Addiction is a tough illness, and recovery from it is a hard but noble path. Men and women who walk that path deserve our support, encouragement, and admiration.

The path that is followed by most persons in the beginning of their spitirual search is the path of love, bhakti yoga.

To find a mountain path all by oneself gives a greater feeling of strength than to take a path that is shown.

The spiritual path is easy. It's the only path that is.

The Christ path is the path I've walked all my life, so it's normal and natural. And I have no reason to abandon it because it leads to where I want to go.

Path presupposes distance; If He be near, no path needest thou at all. Verily it maketh me smile To hear of a fish in water athirst!