Is it by chance that the 18th century of France, the century of the "philosophy of enlightenment," did not produce any poets except the Marquis de Sade, who -- despite his participation in the events of this epoch -- expressed the first violent protest against the essential postulates of this period?
Benjamin PéretTag: enlightenment sade
When the stories of our life no longer bind us, we discover within them something greater. We discover that within the very limitations of form, of our maleness and femaleness, of our parenthood and our childhood, of gravity on the earth and the changing of the seasons, is the freedom and harmony we have sought for so long. Our individual life is an expression of the whole mystery, and in it we can rest in the center of the movement, the center of all worlds.
Jack KornfieldTag: enlightenment
Then, what is sacrelige [sic]? If it is nothing more than a rebellion against dogma, it is eventually as meaningless as the dogma it defies, and they are both become hounds ranting in the high grass, never see the boar in the thicket. Only a religious person can perpetrate sacrelige: and if its blasphemy reaches the heart of the question; if it investigates deeply enough to unfold, not the pattern, but the materials of the pattern, and the necessity of a pattern; if it questions so deeply that the doubt it arouses is frightening and cannot be dismissed; then it has done its true sacreligious [sic] work, in the service of its adversary: the only service that nihilism can ever perform.
(unused 1949 prefatory note to The Recognitions)
Tag: inspirational poetry dogma nihilism insight enlightenment blasphemy sacrilege normal
Do not look for happiness outside yourself. The awakened seek happiness inside.
Petar DunovTag: wisdom happiness inner-peace enlightenment self-fulfillment awakened
The Stone of Guilt in the River of the Mind, the block in the flow of intelligence.
~ Paramahamsa Nithyananda
Tag: inspirational spirituality yoga meditation enlightenment teacher guru enlightened-master
The road to enlightenment is long and difficult, and you should try not to forget snacks and magazines.
Anne LamottTag: humor inspirational road enlightenment difficulties
Total Enlightenment is 'Vision without Purpose'.
Stanley Victor PaskavichTag: peace god religion spirituality beliefs enlightenment after-life
The best way to obtain truth and wisdom is not to ask from books, but to go to God in prayer, and obtain divine teaching.
Joseph Smith Jr.Tag: prayer enlightenment
It is neither cowardice nor betrayal to insist that the Enlightenment's main lesson is to be mindful of how much it has left its inheritors to figure out.
Samuel MoynTag: enlightenment
Israel's monomaniacal Spinoza worship is amusing and exasperating by turns. For a start, his insistence that Spinoza was the singular font of the Enlightenment leaves him without a story of the Enlightenment's intellectual or cultural origins. Every historian has to begin somewhere, but the fact that Israel begins with Spinoza, and then reduces most of what follows the philosopher to a footnote, leaves his account of the Enlightenment founded on something like immaculate conception.
Samuel MoynTag: enlightenment spinoza jonathan-israel
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