Lew Welch famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Enlightenment is, in the end, nothing more than the natural state of being.Â
It is not the pursuit of greater and greater states of happiness and bliss that leads to enlightenment, but the yearning for Reality and the rabid dissatisfaction with living anything less than a fully authentic life.
We need to learn that truth consists not in correct doctrine, but in correct doctrine plus the inward enlightenment of the Holy Spirit.
The more we try and understand enlightenment the more it will elude us. And that's because enlightenment does not come from the mind. It comes form 'no-mind.' It comes form just being. You are already enlightened. You just have to realize it to allow it into your experience.
Enlightenment is: absolute cooperation with the inevitable.
Aggressive Christianity is the world's greatest need.
For though we often need to be restored to the small, concrete, limited, and certain, we as often need to be reminded of the large, vague, unlimited, unknown
Read. As much as you can. As deeply and widely and nourishingly and Âirritatingly as you can. And the good things will make you remember them, so you won't need to take notes.
Birth is a shadow. Courage, self-sustained, outlords succession's phlegm, and needs no ancestors.
Looking for enlightenment is like looking for a flashlight when all you need the flashlight for is to find the flashlight.

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