In many respects, the concept of doing your own research does perhaps have interesting even older origins. The enlightenment nurtured the idea that accepted wisdom should be challenged … The Royal Society of London used as their motto “Take nobody’s word for it” (Nullius in verba). Imm...
If it is enlightenment that you seek you will need to engage in experiential practices. These are actions that will quiet your mind so that you can perceive directly. Spiritual traditions around the world each have their own methods. They quiet the internal dialogue by eliminating the false beli...
“Waking Up” – What Does It Mean? By Asha Ishaya The words "waking up", "enlightenment", and "consciousness" are used so often in meditation or spiritual conversations, yet, they can seem so unreachable to us. For most of our lives, we believe they are experiences just for special ...
[word]someone who has attained enlightenment or immortality; real person 真唱 [word]sing live 真值 [word]true value 真性 [word]inherent quality; true 真命天子 [idiom]ordained Son of Heaven; boyfriend 真相大白 [idiom]Everything is clear now. 真人真事 [idiom]real characters and real incidents ...
without undue hindrance to the progress of enlightenment. But by the public use of one's own reason I mean that use which anyone may make of it as a man of learning addressing the entire reading public. What I term the private use of reason is that which a person may make of it in...
and it goes. But the enlightened Witness does not have a beginning in time; it is ever-present and you know it is ever-present (you are aware of the Witness right now, as that which is reading this page). Enlightenment, in fact, is the only thing that never begins (for it is alwa...
You may have heard the term “awakening” used before you found this blog, in reference to personal or spiritual transformation. But what exactly does awakening mean? Of course, that’s really a subjective answer, but I’ll share with you my perspective on awakening and why I use that word...
What Is En..Enlightenment is man's emergence from his self-imposed nonage. Nonage is the inability to use one's
The first episode to air is “Friedrich Nietzsche: Apostle of Nihilism.” Nietzsche lived in the age of the so-called Enlightenment, which had marginalized or even gotten rid of the concept of God. Dr. Jennifer Roback Morse, founder of the Ruth Institute, says the philosopher carried the ide...
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