We are condemned to be modern. We can’t escape the facts of our history or of living in an age dominated by instrumental rationality, even as we look for ways out of it... But it has become our historic responsibility to acknowledge the continuing importance of myth, at a level beyond science, in realizing a more organic, holistic relation to the world. A future social ecology would transcend both anti-Enlightenment reaction and [a] reified Enlightenment counter-reaction, which remain only fragmented polarities within bourgeois modernity.
David WatsonStichwörter: science myth enlightenment modernity social-ecology
There is strong shadow where there is much light.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheStichwörter: shadow enlightenment enlightened
Education leads to enlightenment. Enlightenment opens the way to empathy. Empathy foreshadows reform.
Derrick A. BellStichwörter: education empathy justice enlightenment reform
Enlightenment is: absolute cooperation with the inevitable.
Anthony de MelloStichwörter: inspirational spirituality enlightenment
Philosophy cannot be extinguished, though men will try ... The spirit seeks the light, that is its nature. It wishes to return to its origin, and must forever try to reach enlightenment.
Iain PearsStichwörter: philosophy enlightenment human-spirit
[Men] prefer the foolish belief and the passions of the earth [to the enlightenment of their souls]. They believe the absurd and shrink from the truth."
"No, they do not. They are afraid, that is all. And they must remain on earth until they come to the way of leaving it."
"And how do they leave? How is the ascent made? Must one learn virtue?"
Here she laughs. "You have read too much, and learned too little. Virtue is a road, not a destination. Man cannot be virtuous. Understanding is the goal. When that is achieved, the soul can take wing.
Stichwörter: fear truth philosophy soul virtue mankind understanding beliefs enlightenment
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The problem is not that you have problems; the problem is that you see having problems as a problem.
Maurice MakaluStichwörter: inspirational inspiration spiritual spirituality enlightenment
Last night I lost the world, and gained the universe.
C. JoyBell C.Stichwörter: knowledge inspirational-quotes forgiveness enlightenment letting-go
My spirit is healthy, yes. But I tell you, my flesh is healthy too. I am enlightened and free, but I am also lustful and carnal.
C. JoyBell C.Stichwörter: inspirational-quotes human lust humanism spirit inspirational-life enlightenment carnal lust-for-life enlightened spiritual-quotes lust-for-everything
There are those who say that spiritual enlightenment is achieved through the denial of oneself; you must deny yourself many things, go and live in a mountaintop, never mingle with other people, talk to the birds..but I say to you, why should you dismantle your home? Where is the meaning in removing the bricks from your walls one by one? What is the purpose in uprooting your floors? Is there any significance in only allowing yourself a tin roof and a muddy bed? Why deny your house its structure? A truly enlightened soul is strong enough, is bright enough to live and shine through, even in a beautiful house! There is no need to ransack the house in order to see an inner beauty etched against a distraught surrounding. A bright and beautiful soul can shine forth even from inside an equally beautiful surrounding.
C. JoyBell C.Stichwörter: beauty human spirituality spirit life-and-living inner-beauty inspirational-life enlightenment spiritual-quotes inner-and-outer-beauty outer-beauty
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