And as long as you're subject to birth and death, you'll never attain enlightenment.
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Enlightenment is not something you achieve. It is the absence of something. All your life you have been going forward after something, pursuing some goal. Enlightenment is dropping all that.
The real meaning of enlightenment is to gaze with undimmed eyes on all darkness.
I don't believe that human beings can achieve ultimate enlightenment, because humans have flaws.
Enlightenment is always there. Small enlightenment will bring great enlightenment. If you breathe in and are aware that you are alive - that you can touch the miracle of being alive - then that is a kind of enlightenment.
I'm very much an Enlightenment kind of guy.
We're in an age of enlightenment, and we have a choice as a society which path to take.
I am a firm believer that one way to become enlightened is to be so relaxed, as relaxed as you possibly can be.
The Enlightenment view of mankind is a complete myth. It leads us into thinking we're sane and rational creatures most of the time, and we're not.
Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is Enlightenment.
If on the one side we do not harbor the illusion that the entire proletariat must be enlightened before it can be called into battle, so on the other we do not doubt that as much enlightenment as possible must be produced with oral and printed agitation.
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