Sublime

I would like to encourage everybody to practice meditation so we can actually see and look more. If we don’t understand ourselves, it will be very difficult to appreciate anything else that goes on in our world. And on the whole, please cheer up. Don’t analyze too much.

It is no coincidence that liberalism, rationalism, and empiricism go together under the banner of the “Enlightenment” or that, together, they have decreased human suffering so much through technological improvements, effective infrastructure, and medical and other scientific advances, as well as by upholding human rights. These concepts are mutuall

Enlightenment is permanent because we have not produced it; we have merely discovered it.

The Enlightenment was a scene of intellectual conflict that drew upon utterly foreign cultures in the ancient world and in the New World to destabilize systems of oppression. It was not a unified program but a process of creative intellectual destruction.

the ‘Enlightenment’, the chief tenet of which was that human reason possesses the power not only to penetrate to the natural laws underlying the world, but to determine the nature of a just society, to advance the cause of human freedom, to discover the rational basis of morality and to instill moral behaviour in individuals and nations.

Insight, then, may loosely be described as any ‘seeing’ that frees.