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enlightenment

«In tribulation immediately draw near to God with confidence, and you will receive strength, enlightenment, and instruction.»
«The aim of public education is not to spread enlightenment at all; it is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible to the same safe level, to breed a standard citizenry, to put down dissent and originality»
«Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is enlightenment.»
Author: Lao Tzu (Philosopher) | About: Knowledge, Wisdom | Keywords: enlightenment
«Knowing others is wisdom; Knowing the self is enlightenment; Mastering others requires force; Mastering the self needs strength»
«Nirvana or lasting enlightenment or true spiritual growth can be achieved only through persistent exercise of real love.»
«The genius of Man in our time has gone into jet-propulsion, atom-splitting, penicillin-curing, etc. There is none over for works of imagination; of spiritual insight or mystical enlightenment. I asked for bread and was given a tranquilizer. It is important to recognize that in our time man has not written one word, thought one thought, put two notes or two bricks together, splashed color on to canvas or concrete into space, in a manner which will be of any conceivable imaginative interest to posterity.»
«It is not the simple statement of facts that ushers in freedom; it is the constant repetition of them that has this liberating effect. Tolerance is the result not of enlightenment, but of boredom.»
«There is no enlightenment outside of daily life.»
«If you ever reach total enlightenment while drinking beer, I bet it makes beer shoot out your nose»
«There are many paths to enlightenment. Be sure to take one with a heart.»

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