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enlightenment awakening recognition
Enlightenment or awakening is not the creation of a new state of affairs but the recognition of what already is. Alan Watts
enlightenment needs inward
We need to learn that truth consists not in correct doctrine, but in correct doctrine plus the inward enlightenment of the Holy Spirit. Aiden Wilson Tozer
enlightenment want trouble
The trouble with Westerners is that they want to witness their own enlightenment. Chogyam Trungpa
enlightenment sanity ifs
If we really prefer basic sanity or enlightenment, it's irritatingly possible to get into it.
enlightenment contamination
Cultural contamination that is directed outward is always seen as ‘enlightenment. David Brin
enlightenment degrees paradox
The measure of your enlightenment is the degree to which you are comfortable with paradox, contradiction, and ambiguity. Deepak Chopra
enlightenment sacred steps
No single step in the persuit of enlightenment should ever be considered sacred; only the search was. Ann Druyan
enlightenment three enlightened
Nonresistance, nonjudgment, and nonattachment are the three aspects of true freedom and enlightened living. Eckhart Tolle
enlightenment doe outsiders
Being an outsider to some extent, someone who does not "fit in" with others or is rejected by them for whatever reason, makes life difficult, but it also places you at an advantage as far as enlightenment is concerned. It takes you out of unconsciousness almost by force.
blind ifs seeking
If we are not totally blind, what we are seeking is already here. This is it.
blind-spots people world
Sometimes you are ahead of people and sometimes people have blind spots. They can't see the world and they can't see what they do. David Shapiro
blinders braces girls mad pay
All I wanted was attention from girls when I was a kid. Then I got my braces off, and then there was too much attention, and I was also mad that they didn't pay attention to me in the first place. Then I was just like, I couldn't put on blinders and focus on one because there were too many options. Lucas Till
blind
The one thing you never say to a blind person is, 'Did you see that?' Walter Dean
blinders charged good maybe occurred whatever
When I went into film, it never occurred to me that I wouldn't be able to do whatever I wanted to do. Maybe that was a good thing in the beginning. I had blinders on, and I charged forward.
blind-love kind blind
When life leaves us blind, love keeps us kind. Chester Bennington
blinds nocturnal writers
We writers are shy, nocturnal creatures. Push us into the light and the light blinds us. John Banville
blinding fire god good hail send shall unless
Unless God send his hail / Or blinding fire balls, sleet or stifling snow, / In some time, his good time, I shall arrive. Robert Browning
blind brute mere strength union unless wisely
Union may be strength, but it is mere blind brute strength unless wisely directed. Samuel Butler
reason rhetoric foe
The press is the foe of rhetoric, but the friend of reason. Charles Caleb Colton
reason
Faith is led confidently to expect what reason would never suggest. Charles Spurgeon
reason event-horizon lacking
We are alone. Live our lives, lacking anything better to do. Devise reason later. Alan Moore
reason accepting
Never ever accept 'Because You Are A Woman' as a reason for doing or not doing anything. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
reason take-me happens
Things happen for a reason. We'll see where life takes me from here. Buddy Rice
reason shares sold
The only reason I sold the 500,000 shares on Sept. 17, the only reason, was Sept. 11. Jeffrey Skilling
reason violent expeditions
The expedition of my violent love outrun the pauser, reason. William Shakespeare
reason inequality seems
Do not banish reason for inequality; but let your reason serve to make the truth appear where it seems hid, and hide the false seems true.
reason
Love reasons without reason.