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  • If Adams had any thoughts or feelings about the passing of the epochal eighteenth century—any observations on the Age of Enlightenment, the century of Johnson, Voltaire, the Declaration of Independence, the American Revolution, the French Revolution, the age of Pitt and Washington, the advent of the United States of America—or if he had any premonitions or words to the wise about the future of his country or of humankind, he committed none to paper.†   (source)
  • Why had Gotama, at that time, in the hour of all hours, sat down under the bo-tree, where the enlightenment hit him?†   (source)
  • I will follow you, and I will teach you of the enlightenment that is pure hellfire.†   (source)
  • He thought of Peter's faith that an age of enlightenment was imminent.†   (source)
  • History is necessary for the enlightenment of man and the de-struction of evil.†   (source)
  • Romanticism represents not least a reaction to the Enlightenment's mechanistic universe.†   (source)
  • It is no accident that the science of pedagogy was founded during the Enlightenment.†   (source)
  • So schools date from the Middle Ages, and pedagogy from the Enlightenment.†   (source)
  • Previously we spoke of the Renaissance, the Baroque period, and the Enlightenment.†   (source)
  • The Enlightenment philosophers had often had a 'static' view of history.†   (source)
  • Previously we spoke of the Renaissance, the Baroque period, and the Enlightenment.†   (source)
  • But most of the Enlightenment philosophers thought it was irrational to imagine a world without God.†   (source)
  • It started in Germany, arising as a reaction to the Enlightenment's unequivocal emphasis on reason.†   (source)
  • Her PartiRank was 1,921, another fine figure, and one she felt comfortable taking into the Enlightenment.†   (source)
  • Sitting in the Enlightenment was astounding, as they were now doing, awaiting Dream Friday in the Great Hall.†   (source)
  • The coming age of enlightenment.†   (source)
  • The Great Hall was in the Enlightenment, and when they entered the venue, a 3,500-seat cavern appointed in warm woods and brushed steel, it was loud with anticipation.†   (source)
  • As Mae followed the reaction, she watched the clock, knowing she was only an hour away from her presentation, her first in the Enlightenment's Great Room.†   (source)
  • The Enlightenment philosophers thought that once reason and knowledge became widespread, humanity would make great progress.†   (source)
  • As early as 1787 the Enlightenment philosopher Condorcet published a treatise on the rights of women.†   (source)
  • They longed for bygone eras, such as the Middle Ages, which now became enthusiastically reappraised after the Enlightenment's negative evaluation.†   (source)
  • You cannot single out particular thoughts from antiquity, the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, or the Enlightenment and say they were right or wrong.†   (source)
  • Like the humanists of antiquity—such as Socrates and the Stoics—most of the Enlightenment philosophers had an unshakable faith in human reason.†   (source)
  • The greatest monument to the enlightenment movement was characteristically enough a huge encyclopedia.†   (source)
  • This led to the enlightenment movement.†   (source)
  • But the Enlightenment philosophers wanted to establish certain rights that everybody was entitled to simply by being born.†   (source)
  • It would not be wrong to say that the idea of the intrinsic value of childhood dates from the Enlightenment.†   (source)
  • Now the Enlightenment philosophers saw it as their duty to lay a foundation for morals, religion, and ethics in accordance with man's immutable reason.†   (source)
  • The Enlightenment ...from the way needles are made to the way cannons are founded Hilde had just begun the chapter on the Renaissance when she heard her mother come in the front door.†   (source)
  • Some of the Enlightenment thinkers had drawn attention to the importance of feel-ing—not least Rousseau—but at that time it was a criticism of the bias toward reason.†   (source)
  • But 'nature' to the Enlightenment philosophers meant almost the same as 'reason/ since human reason was a gift of nature rather than of religion or of 'civilization.'†   (source)
  • He lived in the Age of Enlightenment at the same time as great French thinkers like Voltaire and Rousseau, and he traveled widely in Europe before returning to settle down in Edinburgh toward the end of his life.†   (source)
  • According to the Enlightenment philosophers, what religion needed was to be stripped of all the irrational dogmas or doctrines that had got attached to the simple teachings of Jesus during the course of ecclesiastical history.†   (source)
  • The Enlightenment.†   (source)
  • A few days later, Adams was present for what was felt to be one of the high moments in the Age of Enlightenment when, at the Academy of Sciences, Voltaire and Franklin, like two aged actors, as Adams described them, embraced each other in the French manner, "hugging one another in their arms, and kissing each other's checks.†   (source)
  • "The time for the enlightenment of the prince Siddhartha draweth nigh," thought the gods; "we must show him a sign": and they changed one of their number into a decrepit old man, broken-toothed, gray-haired, crooked and bent of body, leaning on a staff, and trembling, and showed him to the Future Buddha, but so that only he and the charioteer saw him.†   (source)
  • "Oh," said the man, showing plainly the enlightenment which had come to him.†   (source)
  • Meanwhile in Europe, the enlightenment was a reasonable time.†   (source)
  • Social contract—that's the Enlightenment, that's Rousseau.†   (source)
  • The enlightenment has been painfully forced upon me, and the discovery is not mine.†   (source)
  • Hence they are full of the most valuable materials for the enlightenment of the working class.†   (source)
  • Although one found pleasure in Naphta's concern for the enlightenment of the common people, that pleasure was diminished somewhat by the fear that what prevailed here was an instinctual tendency to shroud the commonfolk and the world in illiterate darkness.†   (source)
  • The achievements that the Renaissance and the Enlightenment wrested from the past—and may I emphasize, my dear sir, the struggles contained in that verb—were individual human personality, human rights, and human freedom.†   (source)
  • Freedom was in fact probably more an idea of Romanticism than of the Enlightenment, for as a concept it shared with Romanticism the same complex, never-to-be-disentangled interlocking of the human instinct to expand and the passionate, constricting thrust of the individual ego.†   (source)
  • A pedagogic method that regards itself as a daughter of the Enlightenment and employs educational methods based on criticism, on the liberation and nursing of the ego, on the breaking down of ordained living patterns—such a pedagogy may still achieve moments of rhetorical success, but for those who know and understand, it is, beyond all doubt, sublimely backward.†   (source)
  • The Renaissance, the Enlightenment, and the teachings of nineteenth-century science and economics have omitted nothing, absolutely nothing, that seemed even vaguely useful for furthering such degradation, beginning with modern astronomy—which turned the focal point of the universe, that sublime arena where God and Satan struggled to possess the creature whom they both ardently coveted, into an unimportant little planet, and, for now at least, has put an end to man's grand position in…†   (source)
  • And as for pedagogics, the conception of human dignity that sought to ban corporal punishment had its roots, to hear Naphta tell it, in the liberal individualism of the era of bourgeois humanism, in the Enlightenment's absolutism of the ego, which was about to atrophy and be replaced by a wave of newer, less namby-pamby social concepts, ideas of submission and obedience, of bridles and bonds, and since such things were not to be had without holy cruelty, flogging would thus be regarded…†   (source)
  • That pamphlet is translated into Russian by some Russian philanthropists of aristocratic rank and evangelical aspirations, and has been distributed gratis for the enlightenment of the people.†   (source)
  • He seems to me to have betrayed unconsciously, and so early, that timid despair which leads so many in our unhappy society, who dread cynicism and its corrupting influences, and mistakenly attribute all the mischief to European enlightenment, to return to their 'native soil,' as they say, to the bosom, so to speak, of their mother earth, like frightened children, yearning to fall asleep on the withered bosom of their decrepit mother, and to sleep there for ever, only to escape the…†   (source)
  • —I hope Mr Dedalus will work out his theory for the enlightenment of the public.†   (source)
  • For the enlightenment of those who are not so intimately acquainted with the minutiae of the municipal abattoir as this morbidminded esthete and embryo philosopher who for all his overweening bumptiousness in things scientific can scarcely distinguish an acid from an alkali prides himself on being, it should perhaps be stated that staggering bob in the vile parlance of our lowerclass licensed victuallers signifies the cookable and eatable flesh of a calf newly dropped from its mother.†   (source)
  • 'Nymphs of Henares,' and 'The Enlightenment of Jealousy.'†   (source)
  • On the other hand, it struck me that, inasmuch as among his books there had been found such modern ones as "The Enlightenment of Jealousy" and the "Nymphs and Shepherds of Henares," his story must likewise be modern, and that though it might not be written, it might exist in the memory of the people of his village and of those in the neighbourhood.†   (source)
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  • Ever since marrying Francois, I had clung to the notion that my mother-in-law, in a moment of enlightenment, would cast aside her prejudices and join Francois and me in celebrating our union.†   (source)
  • So, perhaps that is where one must eventually head, if one has any hopes of achieving enlightenment without the interference of meddlers.†   (source)
  • The plane was over land again when a flash of enlightenment struck him.†   (source)
  • Enlightenment?†   (source)
  • But none of the research provided much enlightenment on my number one area of real interest: Teenage friendship.†   (source)
  • Chet Douglass, leaning against the side of the Prize Table, continued to blow musical figures for his own enlightenment.†   (source)
  • The way it was angled in the fork, it seemed to be on display, for their benefit or enlightenment: this is a leg.†   (source)
  • Some cheap do-it-yourself enlightenment handbook, Nirvana for halfwits.†   (source)
  • What up until this moment has felt like a random, disconnected series of unhappy events she now views as necessary steps in a journey toward …. enlightenment is perhaps too strong a word, but there are others, less lofty, like self-acceptance and perspective.†   (source)
  • But I wasn't convinced enlightenment struck like lightning.†   (source)
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  • Because until this moment—until the first waves of pure and utter enlightenment wash over me—I had no idea that he was even missing.†   (source)
  • "Everybody always says this painting is about reason and enlightenment, the dawn of scientific inquiry, all that, but to me it's creepy how polite and formal they are, milling around the slab like a buffet at a cocktail party.†   (source)
  • My father believes in enlightenment.†   (source)
  • To my frequent and clumsy attempts at piercing this mystery, the Three Score and Ten have offered their usual enlightenment.†   (source)
  • It's true in life as well, where sex can be pleasure, sacrifice, submission, rebel-lion, resignation, supplication, domination, enlightenment, the whole works.†   (source)
  • "Folks, we're at the dawn of the Second Enlightenment.†   (source)
  • Enlightenment has to come from within.†   (source)
  • =========================== "There is probably no more terrible instant of enlightenment than the one in which you discover your father is a man—with human flesh."†   (source)
  • What is in mind is a sort of Chautauqua…that's the only name I can think of for it…like the traveling tent-show Chautauquas that used to move across America, this America, the one that we are now in, an old-time series of popular talks intended to edify and entertain, improve the mind and bring culture and enlightenment to the ears and thoughts of the hearer.†   (source)
  • We have seen in our own time how a young democracy needs popular enlightenment.†   (source)
  • A person must earn enlightenment, Eragon.†   (source)
  • With my old friends mired in status quo, how could I explain my summer enlightenment?†   (source)
  • If possible, enlightenment.†   (source)
  • Brian felt a sting of enlightenment.†   (source)
  • She felt pity for Saintly Amma, whose dream of enlightenment for Africa was vanity that cost Anjali's life.†   (source)
  • In Gnostic texts, the focus wasn't on sin and repentance, but instead on illusion and enlightenment.†   (source)
  • You need some enlightenment, William, Johan snapped.†   (source)
  • Or because they believed that, emotions out of the way, supreme rationality would result, utter logic, true enlightenment.†   (source)
  • For your enlightenment, all my colleagues said to me was that you had been ill, that you hadn't been functioning at the level of your past accomplishments until the end of your service.†   (source)
  • There was the brilliant mathematician and political theorist Marie-Jean A. N. Caritat, Marquis de Condorcet, another of the philosophes of the French enlightenment, whose strange pallor Adams took to be the result of "hard study."†   (source)
  • They came to his clinics longing for enlightenment and comfort.†   (source)
  • Enlightenment did not rise in him as the flames had briefly risen in those lamps.†   (source)
  • How about Paul, holding the coats while Stephen was stoned? I would search the Scriptures, but not for enlightenment or instruction.†   (source)
  • That is their enlightenment.†   (source)
  • As Forsyth saw it, Judson's decision was not the sudden enlightenment that the abolitionist papers were claiming.†   (source)
  • While the Elizabethan age is considered by many historians to be one of enlightenment, given the rise of such geniuses as Shakespeare and Sir Walter Raleigh (see: cape in the mud, etc.), there is no question that Elizabeth, toward the end of her reign, began to behave in an unpredictable and skittish fashion.†   (source)
  • Enlightenment's supposed to come with the prayer, not before it.†   (source)
  • Above all, the ogreish mother who, Barnard enlightenment or no, has dominated Les's life with bitchery and vengeance ever since the moment when she caught Leslie, then three, diddling herself and forced her to wear hand-splints for months as prophylaxis against self-abuse.†   (source)
  • But I never dreamed I could learn as long as I was away from the schoolroom, and that bits of enlightenment far-reaching in my life went on as ever in their own good time.†   (source)
  • It may bring you some enlightenment.†   (source)
  • On Lombard Street enlightenment was hard to come by.†   (source)
  • Might we get closer to enlightenment?†   (source)
  • He was the only man I ever knew to really achieve enlightenment.†   (source)
  • Thus Greece gave way to Rome, and the Russian Enlightenment has become the Russian Revolution.†   (source)
  • A red-headed researcher, actually working on a problem of a transistor which would record the TP impulse, hastily invented the fact that TP optical transmission was astigmatic and humbly requested enlightenment.†   (source)
  • This idea is also the core of the French Enlightenment.†   (source)
  • Let me outline some of the ideas that many of the French Enlightenment philosophers had in common.†   (source)
  • Enlightenment meant seeing through the third eye and sensing designs in history's muddles.†   (source)
  • This was so characteristic that the French Enlightenment is often called the Age of Reason.†   (source)
  • Alberto will soon be telling you about the French Enlightenment.†   (source)
  • This division of power originated from the French Enlightenment philosopher Montesquieu.†   (source)
  • But this criticism of 'civilization' was already being voiced by French Enlightenment philosophers.†   (source)
  • First of all I shall give you the most important facts about the French Enlightenment.†   (source)
  • Enlightenment.†   (source)
  • The French Enlightenment philosophers did not content themselves with theoretical views on man's place in society.†   (source)
  • All in all, Locke was a forerunner of many liberal ideas which later, during the period of the French Enlightenment in the eighteenth century, came into full flower.†   (source)
  • She opened the letter and read aloud: Dear both of you, Sophie's philosophy teacher ought to have underlined the significance of the French Enlightenment for the ideals and principles the UN is founded on.†   (source)
  • Many of the French Enlightenment philosophers visited England, which was in many ways more liberal than their home country, and were intrigued by the English natural sciences, especially Newton and his universal physics.†   (source)
  • Enlightenment?†   (source)
  • Why else in recent years would the god Vishnu be moved to incarnate among men, other than to teach them the Way of Enlightenment?†   (source)
  • The mind of man …. receiving enlightenment.†   (source)
  • Maybe my assignment was to bring you enlightenment, Taylor.†   (source)
  • A koan is like a riddle that's supposed to help you toward enlightenment in Zen Buddhism.†   (source)
  • I would need more than wind chimes and enlightenment.†   (source)
  • The pyramid essentially represents enlightenment.†   (source)
  • The shining triangle represents enlightenment.†   (source)
  • The promise of a great transformational enlightenment has been prophesied forever.†   (source)
  • "A New World Order," Langdon repeated, "based on scientific enlightenment.†   (source)
  • They were scientists who revered enlightenment.†   (source)
  • The Illuminati often considered great artists and sculptors honorary brothers in enlightenment.†   (source)
  • The mystic may have to seek the path of "purification and enlightenment" to his meeting with God.†   (source)
  • For your enlightenment he's one of your undersecretaries from the Fast East Section.†   (source)
  • Siddhartha spoke with ecstasy; deeply, this enlightenment had delighted him.†   (source)
  • "I am Aram," he stated, "a fellow seeker and traveler with all who wish enlightenment."†   (source)
  • I understand, though, that he is the same one who founded the religion of peace and enlightenment.†   (source)
  • Your foremost disciple, enlightenment and all, near had my head this afternoon!†   (source)
  • He was merely trying, that sigh suggested, to drag us all toward enlightenment through the marrow of our own poor female bones.†   (source)
  • Women, once celebrated as an essential half of spiritual enlightenment, had been banished from the temples of the world.†   (source)
  • Upon hearing this, Banzan realized that there is no best and no worst, that those judgments have no real meaning because there is only what is, and poof, he reached enlightenment.†   (source)
  • The Colonel seemed resigned to that, but if the Investigation had once been his idea, it was now the thing that held me together, and I still hoped for enlightenment. sixty-two days after†   (source)
  • Throughout history, every period of enlightenment has been accompanied by darkness, pushing in opposition.†   (source)
  • Instead, they have a bundle of energy, and that bundle of energy is transitory, migrating from one body to another, reincarnating endlessly until it eventually reaches enlightenment.†   (source)
  • What should concern you is that this prophecy of a coming enlightenment is echoed in virtually every faith and philosophical tradition on earth.†   (source)
  • Every esoteric tradition interprets 'the stone' in its own way, but invariably the occultum lapidem is a source of power and enlightenment."†   (source)
  • While the Buddha was special because he abandoned his wealth and noble birth to seek enlightenment, Jesus was special because he lacked wealth and noble birth, but inherited the ultimate nobility: King of Kings.†   (source)
  • They feared that the church's monopoly on 'truth' threatened academic enlightenment around the world.†   (source)
  • They are the desperate cry of the modern soul, lonely and tormented, crippled by its own enlightenment and its inability to accept meaning in anything removed from technology.†   (source)
  • It was a gift to America from a wealthy British scientist who, like our forefathers, believed our fledgling country could become the land of enlightenment.†   (source)
  • "Timing aside," Solomon said, "I find it wondrous to note that throughout history, all of mankind's disparate philosophies have all concurred on one thing—that a great enlightenment is coming.†   (source)
  • "As I said when I began," Solomon stated in conclusion, "James Smithson and our forefathers envisioned our great country to be a land of enlightenment.†   (source)
  • The genius is surrounded with all of the symbols of his human intellect—objects of science, math, philosophy, nature, geometry, even carpentry—and yet is still unable to climb the ladder to true enlightenment.†   (source)
  • In a bizarre attempt to reflect this theme of modern enlightenment and yet stay within the decorative register of Renaissance architecture, the stairway banisters had been carved with cupidlike putti portrayed as modern scientists.†   (source)
  • I'm talking about clear minds writing in clear language—the predictions of Saint Augustine, Sir Francis Bacon, Newton, Einstein, the list goes on and on, all anticipating a transformative moment of enlightenment.†   (source)
  • Beneath that, a stately course of paired pillars lined the second-floor balcony, accessible by two magnificent curling staircases whose newel posts supported giant bronze female figures raising torches of enlightenment.†   (source)
  • "But, sir," the student now pressed, "surely you don't believe that a single word …. this verbum significatium …. whatever it is …. has the power to unlock ancient wisdom …. and bring about a worldwide enlightenment?"†   (source)
  • Farther down the page there were two typewritten lines of poetry: TRUE ENLIGHTENMENT IS TO MAN LIKE SUNLIGHT TO THE SOIL —N.†   (source)
  • Katherine vaguely recalled her brother telling her that the winged figure was a representation of "human genius"—a great thinker with chin in hand, looking depressed, still unable to achieve enlightenment.†   (source)
  • "The Temple of Vesta in Rome," Langdon said, "was circular, with a gaping hole in the floor, through which the sacred fire of enlightenment could be tended by a sisterhood of virgins whose job it was to ensure the flame never went out."†   (source)
  • With his chubby face and his grumpy expression, he looked like a Buddha who'd achieved enlightenment and wasn't thrilled about it.†   (source)
  • In one horrifying moment of enlightenment, Carlos saw that Thomas Hunter had slapped the gun from his hand and was now rolling away from him, far too quickly for any ordinary man.†   (source)
  • Despite these hazards, a candidate was selected in late July— William Raymond, a Massachusetts man who had experienced a vision that in the Far East would be called enlightenment but in the West was known as receiving the call of God.†   (source)
  • Tom didn't know how much enlightenment there had been, but there'd been comfort a fair few times and it had been mutual.†   (source)
  • In such a world John Galt, the man of incalculable intellectual power, will remain an unskilled laborerFrancisco d'Anconia, the miraculous producer of wealth, will become a wastrel-and Ragnar Danneskjold, the man of enlightenment, will become the man of violence.†   (source)
  • The boy possesses only the power of destruction, but 21-21 possesses the power of enlightenment, which is immeasurably the more dangerous of the two.†   (source)
  • To them, being Christian was a good first step, but to truly reach enlightenment, you had to receive secret knowledge, or gnosis.†   (source)
  • Just because I'm choosy about what I want—in this case, enlightenment, or peace, instead of money or prestige or fame or any of those things—doesn't mean I'm not as egotistical and self-seeking as everybody else.†   (source)
  • And Buddhist enlightenment is very much like the Gnostic idea that we live in a land of oblivion, but can waken spiritually right here while we're still part of this world.†   (source)
  • And they belonged to a group called Gnostic Christians—a splinter group from Orthodox Christianity, who believed that true religious enlightenment meant undertaking a very personal, individual quest to know yourself, not by your socioeconomic status or profession, but at a deeper core.†   (source)
  • This has been known for a long time, and the world has been preparing for an upheaval that would bring enlightenment to the people and put everything in its proper place.†   (source)
  • It has come to you in the course of your own search, on your own path, through thoughts, through meditation, through realizations, through enlightenment.†   (source)
  • You will not be able to convey and say to anybody, oh venerable one, in words and through teachings what has happened to you in the hour of enlightenment!†   (source)
  • No, not to be looked down upon was the tremendous amount of enlightenment which lay here collected and preserved by innumerable generations of wise Brahmans.†   (source)
  • This is so, say the sages, for man must work off his burden of Karma if he is to achieve enlightenment.†   (source)
  • He possessed, so the believers said, the highest enlightenment, he remembered his previous lives, he had reached the nirvana and never returned into the cycle, was never again submerged in the murky river of physical forms.†   (source)
  • It's true that a drinker numbs his senses, it's true that he briefly escapes and rests, but he'll return from the delusion, finds everything to be unchanged, has not become wiser, has gathered no enlightenment,—has not risen several steps.†   (source)
  • It was generally conceded that he had received enlightenment, except by those who believed him to be a fraud, sinner, criminal or practical joker.†   (source)
  • There was no doubt now that there were two who had received enlightenment: Tathagatha and his small disciple, whom they called Sugata.†   (source)
  • What he had said to Gotama: his, the Buddha's, treasure and secret was not the teachings, but the unexpressable and not teachable, which he had experienced in the hour of his enlightenment—it was nothing but this very thing which he had now gone to experience, what he now began to experience.†   (source)
  • When you received your enlightenment, before you began your teaching, was it like a rush of fire and the roaring of water and you everywhere and a part of everything-the clouds and the trees, the animals in the forest, all people, the snow on the mountaintop and the bones in the field?†   (source)
  • The teaching he had offered, no matter how spuriously, had attracted this true believer, this one who had somehow achieved enlightenment, marked men's minds with his sainthood, and then gone willingly into the hands of Death himself.†   (source)
  • He spoke of the unity of all things, great and small, of the law of cause, of becoming and dying, of the illusion of the world, of the spark of the atman, of the way of salvation through renunciation of the self and union with the whole; he spoke of realization and enlightenment, of the meaninglessness of the Brahmins' rituals, comparing their forms to vessels empty of content.†   (source)
  • He gathered from its roar that he had graduated with honors, that the Architects' Guild of America had presented him with a gold medal and that he had been awarded the Prix de Paris by the Society for Architectural Enlightenment of the U.S.A.—a four-year scholarship at the École des Beaux Arts in Paris.†   (source)
  • …vice-president of the Architects' Guild of America, member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, member of the National Fine Arts Commission, Secretary of the Arts and Crafts League of New York, chairman of the Society for Architectural Enlightenment of the U.S.A.; Guy Francon, knight of the Legion of Honor of France, decorated by the governments of Great Britain, Belgium, Monaco and Siam; Guy Francon, Stanton's greatest alumnus, who had designed the famous Frink National Bank…†   (source)
  • The point is that Buddhahood, Enlightenment, cannot be communicated, but unly the way to Enlightenment.†   (source)
  • The Buddha beneath the Tree of Enlightenment (the Bo Tree) and Christ on Holy Rood (thc Tree of Redemption) are analogous figures, incorporating an archetypal World Savior, World Tree motif, which is of immemorial antiquity.†   (source)
  • The snakes and birds and the divinities of the woods and fields did him homage with flowers and celestial perfumes, heavenly choirs poured forth music, the ten thousand worlds were filled with perfumes, garlands, harmonies, and shouts of acclaim; for he was on his way to the great Tree of Enlightenment, the Bo Tree, under which he was to redeem the universe.†   (source)
  • In this section the following have been equated: The Void — The World; Eternity — Time; Nirvana — Samsara; Truth — Illusoriness; Enlightenment — Compassion; The God — The Goddess; The Enemy — The Friend; Death — Birth; The Thunderbolt — The Bell; The Jewel — The Lotus; Subject — Object; Yab — Yum; Yang — Yin; Tao, Supreme Buddha, Bodhisattva, Divan Mukta, The Word Made Flesh.†   (source)
  • Enlightenment and peace are surely going to come to you.†   (source)
  • I go to Prayag [Allahabad] for the fifth time—seeking the Road to Enlightenment.†   (source)
  • 'Our earth never shook but once—upon the day that the Excellent One received Enlightenment.'†   (source)
  • 'Before our Lord won Enlightenment'—the lama folded all away with reverence—'He was tempted.†   (source)
  • Enlightenment came, however, in the way of an argument between Naab and Mother Mary which he overheard.†   (source)
  • And if as pedagogues we sow doubt, a doubt more profound than your modest Enlightenment ever dreamed possible, we are well aware of what we are doing.†   (source)
  • Enlightenment and help must come from somewhere—otherwise how was she to get the fare, let alone raise money for Clyde's appeal?†   (source)
  • For it was, of course, quite ridiculous to try to tie the concept of revolution exclusively to progress and a victoriously onrushing Enlightenment.†   (source)
  • There my eyes opened on this world; there my eyes were opened to this world; there I found Enlightenment; and there I girt my loins for my Search.†   (source)
  • Many times when I returned from my Search to this Temple, which has always been a nest to me, there came one seeking Enlightenment—a man from Leh—that had been, he said, a Hindu, but wearied of all those Gods.'†   (source)
  • Out of some innocent phrase may come enlightenment.†   (source)
  • He experienced perfect enlightenment at the break of day.†   (source)
  • And those others, the men and women under sentence to death, shared his bleak enlightenment.†   (source)
  • What's he been doing?" said McGuire doubtfully, turning to Coker for enlightenment.†   (source)
  • The word bodhisattva (Sanskrit) means: "whose being or essence is enlightenment."†   (source)
  • To know eternity is enlightenment, and not to recognize eternity brings disorder and evil.†   (source)
  • This conviction, he believed, was something apart from his religious life; it was an enlightenment that came to him as a man, a human creature.†   (source)
  • The secret accumulation of knowledge — a gradual spread of enlightenment — ultimately a proletarian rebellion — the overthrow of the Party.†   (source)
  • She gazed at the matron while into her face there came an expression of enlightenment, sudden comprehension; none could have said if it were simulated or not.†   (source)
  • The Buddha's enlightenment is the most important single moment in Oriental mythology, a counterpart of the Crucifixion of the West.†   (source)
  • That is to say, the two are the same, each is both, and the dual form (yabyum) is only an effect of illusion, which itself, however, is not different from enlightenment.†   (source)
  • The world is filled and illumined by, but does not hold, the Bodhisattva ("he whose being is enlightenment"); rather, it is he who holds the world, the lotus.†   (source)
  • Mahayana Buddhism, on the other hand (the Buddhism of the north), regards the Enlightened One as a world savior, an incarnation of the universal principle of enlightenment.†   (source)
  • …threshold (which moment opened to him the timelessness of the void beyond the frustrating mirage-enigmas of the named and bounded cosmos), he paused: he made a vow that before entering the void he would bring all creatures without exception to enlightenment; and since then he has permeated the whole texture of existence with the divine grace of his assisting presence, so that the least prayer addressed to him, throughout the vast spiritual empire of the Buddha, is graciously heard.†   (source)
  • The thunderbolt (vajra) is one of the major symbols in Buddhist iconography, signifying the spiritual power of Buddhahood (indestructible enlightenment) which shatters the illusory realities of the world Fhe Absolute, or Adi Buddha, is represented in the images of Tibet as Vajra-Dhara 'Tibetan: Dorje-Chang, "Holder of the Adamantine Bolt.†   (source)
  • Then for seven days, Gautama—now the Buddha, the Enlightened—sat motionless in bliss; for seven days he stood apart and regarded the spot on which he had received enlightenment; for seven days he paced between the place of the sitting and the place of the standing; for seven days he abode in a pavilion furnished by the gods and reviewed the whole doctrine of causality and release; for seven days he sat beneath the tree where the girl Sujata had brought him milk-rice in a golden bowl,…†   (source)
  • For if he has won through, like the Buddha, to the profound repose of complete enlightenment, there is danger that the bliss of this experience may annihilate all recollection of, interest in, or hope for, the sorrows of the world; or else the problem of making known the way of illumination to people wrapped in economic problems may seem too great to solve.†   (source)
  • I looked to my companion for enlightenment.†   (source)
  • [rising in sudden enlightenment] O-o-o-o-oh!†   (source)
  • The cruelty of fooled honesty is often great after enlightenment, and it was mighty in Clare now.†   (source)
  • With the discovery of Oldring's hidden cattle-range had come enlightenment on several problems.†   (source)
  • For in the sight of God, I fear,—yes——And yet—— I must pray for enlightenment.†   (source)
  • I might indirectly assist the cause of enlightenment and propaganda.†   (source)
  • These also supply the proletariat with fresh elements of enlightenment and progress.†   (source)
  • From this news I derived some personal enlightenment having nothing to do with science.†   (source)
  • The lad asked for no further enlightenment.†   (source)
  • You will perhaps also see in your further initiation a like method of enlightenment.†   (source)
  • 'When I find it, an enlightenment will surely be given.†   (source)
  • It is already much to have solaced it; its enlightenment is yet another point.†   (source)
  • In certain cases, education and enlightenment can serve to eke out evil.†   (source)
  • There, no more than elsewhere, did the information obtained lead to any enlightenment.†   (source)
  • Truly they are but parast, but in other lives, maybe, they will receive enlightenment.†   (source)
  • Some men have but felt some little qualm of kindness towards their fellow-men, and the fact has been quite enough to persuade them that they stand alone in the van of enlightenment and that no one has such humanitarian feelings as they.†   (source)
  • Malice, sir, is the spirit of criticism, and criticism marks the origin of progress and enlightenment.†   (source)
  • They themselves offered me no enlightenment, and I could not call upon any other flowers to satisfy this mysterious longing.†   (source)
  • The work which Professor Booker T. Washington has accomplished for the education, good citizenship, and popular enlightenment in his chosen field of labour in the South entitles him to rank with our national benefactors.†   (source)
  • This frame of mind barred all desire of holding further parley with the fellow, even were it but for the purpose of gaining some enlightenment as to his design in approaching him.†   (source)
  • However doubtful she might feel her situation to be, she would rather persist in darkness than owe her enlightenment to Selden.†   (source)
  • She had inadvertently heard Nels's conversation with Stewart; she had listened, hoping to hear some good news or to hear the worst; she had learned both, and, moreover, enlightenment on one point of Stewart's complex motives.†   (source)
  • Would the two, for his enlightenment, try to ascertain just what they had in common, and why they belonged to the same party?†   (source)
  • She gazed around the room at the pictures and photographs hanging upon the wall, and discovered in some corner an old family album, which she examined with the keenest interest, appealing to Madame Lebrun for enlightenment concerning the many figures and faces which she discovered between its pages.†   (source)
  • And in case of an injury but suspected, its secretiveness voluntarily cuts it off from enlightenment or disillusion; and, not unreluctantly, action is taken upon surmise as upon certainty.†   (source)
  • …should not have known, beforehand, that we had our luncheon an hour earlier on Saturday, it was still more irresistibly funny that my father himself (fully as she sympathised, from the bottom of her heart, with the rigid chauvinism which prompted him) should never have dreamed that the barbarian could fail to be aware of so simple a matter, and so had replied, with no further enlightenment of the other's surprise at seeing us already in the dining-room: "You see, it's Saturday."†   (source)
  • The tea has called up in me, but does not itself understand, and can only repeat indefinitely with a gradual loss of strength, the same testimony; which I, too, cannot interpret, though I hope at least to be able to call upon the tea for it again and to find it there presently, intact and at my disposal, for my final enlightenment.†   (source)
  • There was no doubt which of these two forces would gain the victory—that of enlightenment, of reasoned advancement toward perfection.†   (source)
  • Analysis is good as a tool of enlightenment and civilization—to the extent that it shakes stupid preconceptions, quashes natural biases, and undermines authority.†   (source)
  • It attracted various elements who were weary of their century's sophistries, of its humane, dispassionate enlightenment, and were thirsty for stronger elixirs.†   (source)
  • Reason and enlightenment, however, have banished those shadows, which once lay encamped in the human soul—not entirely, however, for even today the battle is still being waged.†   (source)
  • If it had all happened the way Herr Naphta claimed, if reason had indeed been the inventor of something so ghastly, that would only prove how bitter was reason's need of assistance and enlightenment, how little cause admirers of natural instinct had for fearing the world could get too reasonable.†   (source)
  • And steeled by each new day in battle, the powers of reason and enlightenment will liberate the human race entirely and lead it forth on paths of progress and civilization toward an ever brighter, milder, and purer light.†   (source)
  • …Herr Settembrini, who asserted that her sole historical purpose had been to serve as the patron of the dark forces of inertia and reaction and then went on to claim that the affirmation of life and a future open to revolution and renewal was bound up with the opposing principles of enlightenment, science, and progress, which had arisen in the glorious epoch that witnessed the rebirth of classical education—and drove home this profession of faith with gestures and a burst of eloquence.†   (source)
  • …behind Naphta's back in tones of pathos-laden admonition about the Jesuit, as if he were somehow diabolic, Naphta made unperturbed fun of the other man and the sphere he came from, suggesting that the whole thing was terribly old-fashioned and backward, an attempt at bourgeois enlightenment perpetrated by yesterday's freethinkers, when in fact it was nothing more than a wretched intellectual mirage, which its self-deluded adherents ludicrously believed was full of revolutionary life.†   (source)
  • And so in that regard, and insofar as the past was concerned, he had praise for Germany, although to be fair he thought his own nation should be given the palm for having unfurled the banner of enlightenment, culture, and freedom while other nations had still lain sleeping in superstition and bondage.†   (source)
  • There can be no doubt that they who are thus roused awake by the influence of thought over matter, though the mode in which this influence is exercised must remain hidden from our curiosity until it shall be explained, should that hour ever arrive, by the entire enlightenment of the soul on the subject of all human mysteries.†   (source)
  • 'Anyway it's better than your Pushkin's poetry,' he said, 'for I've managed to advocate enlightenment even in that.'†   (source)
  • People who can do nothing else ought to rear people while the rest work for their happiness and enlightenment.†   (source)
  • The sailor, drowned or no, was probably now lost to them; and Susan's staunch, religious adherence to him as her husband in principle, till her views had been disturbed by enlightenment, was demanded no more.†   (source)
  • With such assurance as proceeds from clear enlightenment of the spirit—with absolute assurance—now know I that he who first goes yonder with the inscription about his neck is what the inscription proclaims him—KING OF THE JEWS.†   (source)
  • You'll be one-and-twenty before you know where you are, and then perhaps you'll get some further enlightenment.†   (source)
  • I pore over these cheeses without any result or enlightenment until dinner-time, when, having made a Mulatto of myself by getting the dirt of the slate into the pores of my skin, I have a slice of bread to help me out with the cheeses, and am considered in disgrace for the rest of the evening.†   (source)
  • Wisdom, virtue, enlightenment?†   (source)
  • When I want a broad-minded opinion for general enlightenment, distinct from special advice, I never go to a man who deals in the subject professionally.†   (source)
  • With praiseworthy discretion, the good lady said nothing, and betrayed no sign of enlightenment, but cordially urged Laurie to stay and begged Amy to enjoy his society, for it would do her more good than so much solitude.†   (source)
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