Famous Quotes & Sayings

Satish Kumar

If we remove ourselves from the world, we are pretending that we can follow our own individual enlightenment and let the rest of the world go to hell, so to speak.

Salman Rushdie

The writers of the French enlightenment had deliberately used blasphemy as a weapon, refusing to accept the power of the Church to set limiting points on thought.

Ursula K. Le Guin

Elegance is a small price to pay for enlightenment, and I was glad to pay it.

Morihei Ueshiba

You are here for no other purpose than to realize your inner divinity and manifest your inner enlightenment.

Nhat Hanh

We need enlightenment, not just individually but collectively, to save the planet.

Moliere

They [zealots] would have everybody be as blind as themselves: to them, to be clear-sighted is libertinism.

Nancy Pearcey

Clearly, Enlightenment thinkers were seeking a God substitute.

Mark Victor Hansen

Enlightenment is awakened awareness.

R. D. Laing

Psychological breakdowns are actually breakthroughs to enlightenment.

Werner Erhard

Transformation is the shift of the principle which orients the person’s life, which is ordinarily the principle of gaining satisfaction. Essentially what organizes life for most of us is an attempt to gratify our needs; our psychological needs, our material needs, our personal needs … Individuals transform when there’s a shift in the principle which orients their life from one of gaining satisfaction to one of expressing the satisfaction they’ve already got...

Samuel Beckett

We are all born; some remain so.

Ziggy Marley

Once you start messing with psychological well-being, we get more and more messed up.

Norman Spinrad

The thematic, psychological, and cultural concerns of a writer are more relevant than whatever literary mode he or she chooses to deal with in any given novel.

Nicky Oppenheimer

Diamonds are intrinsically worthless, except for the deep psychological need they fill.

Peter Travers

Force Majeure is a jolt. You won't know what hit you. Director Ostlund shifts gears from humor to psychological thriller with cunning skill.

Bill Vaughan

The healthy life is hardly one marked by an absence of crises. In fact, an individual's psychological health is distinguished by how early he or she can meet crisis.

Carl Jung

The psyche is a natural phenomenon. All aspects of the psyche, even those which seem pathological or destructive, actually serve the function of furthering our psychological development.

Carl Jung

Psychological type is nothing static - it changes in the course of life.

Tony Evans

Brokenness is often the road to breakthrough. Be encouraged.