Do not cling to anything, to any idea; because clinging is the bondage, even to the idea of enlightenment..
It is wisdom to know others. It is enlightenment to know oneself..
With the development of industrial capitalism, a new and unanticipated system of injustice, it is libertarian socialism that has preserved and extend….
Thomas Jefferson, the leading Enlightenment figure in the United States, along with Benjamin Franklin, who took exactly the same view, argued that de….
Enlightenment will be now the beginning, not the end. Beginning of a non-ending process in all dimensions of richness..
Even great travelers of the inner world have got stuck in beautiful experiences, and have become identified with those experiences, thinking, "I have….
You must continue to go back to the beginning, to the foundation, and question the foundation. Even once you‘ve reached Samadhi you must go back so y….
History shows that our way of life is the stronger way. From it has come more wealth, more industry, more happiness, more human enlightenment than fr….
Culture, with its processes and functions, is a subject upon which we need all the enlightenment we can achieve, and there is no direction in which w….
A haiku is the expression of a temporary enlightenment, in which we see into the life of things..
Kung fu was made so the monks could train their bodies and move their bodies with strength, so they could be physical enough to gain mental enlighten….
The world had seen so many Ages: the Age of Enlightenment; of Reformation; of Reason. Now, at last, the Age of Desire. And after this, an end to Ages….
The point of recapitulation in the first movement of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony unleashes one of the most horrifyingly violent episodes in the histor….
Enlightenment is always through surrender, but surrender is achieved through intelligence. Only idiots cannot surrender. To surrender you need great ….
Start to see yourself for who you really are: a traveller, an explorer or on the path of life, confidently advancing along the path of enlightenment ….
Art is never decoration, embellishment; instead, it is work of enlightenment. Art, in other words, is a technique for acquiring liberty..
Whether or not enlightenment is possible at the moment of death, the practices that prepare one for this possibility also bring one closer to the bon….
Perhaps the most concise summary of enlightenment would be: transcending dualism . ... Dualism is the conceptual division of the world into categorie….
Great beauty, great strength, and great riches are really and truly of no great use; a right heart exceeds all.
The day effort ceased, I also ceased. Because you cannot exist without effort, and you cannot exist without desire, and you cannot exist without stri….
Enlightenment is choicelessness. But don`t misunderstand me. Before that, you will have to move very cautiously, choosing the right against the wrong….