Richard G. Petty, MD

We Are All Being Challenged to Grow

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“This new mind awaits us in this next stage of our evolutionary journey. We are being challenged by the forces of history to grow into this mind, to mutate, as it were, in order for our species to survive. Jesus had the new mind, called in him the Christ Mind, as did Buddha and others. It is the mind when it is overshadowed by God, our mind when it has become one with His, when we have touched the heavenly light and been permanently altered by it. This state of enlightenment is the exaltation of our existence, the uplifting of our human consciousness to such a high place that we manifest, at last, as the children of God we truly are.”

–Marianne Williamson (American Author, Unity Church Minister and Lecturer on Spirituality, 1952-)       

“The Gift of Change: Spiritual Guidance for Living Your Best Life” (Marianne Williamson)  

Finding Your Gifts

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“Figuring out our gifts in life is part of our journey to becoming enlightened human beings.”        

–Allison DuBois (American Writer and Psychic, 1972-)   

The Only Real Revolution

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“The only real revolution is in the enlightenment of the mind and the improvement of character, the only real emancipation is individual, and the only real revolutionaries are philosophers and saints.”

–Will Durant (American Historian, 1885-1981)

The Feeling of Enlightenment

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“It is not easy to convey, unless one has experienced it, the dramatic feeling of sudden enlightenment that floods the mind when the right idea finally clinches into place.”

–Francis Crick (a.k.a. Francis Harry Compton Crick, English Molecular Biologist, Biophysicist, Neuroscientist, and, in 1962, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Medicine, 1916-2004)


“What Mad Pursuit: A Personal View of Scientific Discovery” (Francis Crick)

What Does the Ego Think About Enlightenment?

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“The attainment of enlightenment from ego’s point of view is extreme death.”

–Chögyam Trungpa (Tibetan Buddhist Meditation Teacher, Scholar, Artist and Founder of Naropa University, 1940-1987)   

The Feng Shui of Enlightenment

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“It is impossible for the mental life of man to unfold naturally and normally toward a state of enlightenment unless the physical environment be simplified in every possible way.”  

–Manly P. Hall (American Theosophist, Freemason, Writer and Lecturer, 1901-1990)

God Has Lit Your Mind

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“God has lit your mind Himself, and keeps your mind lit by His Light because His Light is what your mind is.”  

–A Course in Miracles (Book of Spiritual Principles Scribed by Dr. Helen Schucman between 1965 and 1975, and First Published in 1976)   

What Remains When Your Ego Dissolves Away?

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“Think of a vast ocean filled with water on all sides. A jar is immersed in it. There is water both inside and outside the jar; but the water does not become one unless the jar is broken. What is the jar? It is I-consciousness – the ego. When the I disappears, what is, remains.”           

–Sri Ramakrishna (a.k.a. Sri Ramakrishna Paramahansa, Indian Hindu Mystic and Promoter of Universal Religion, 1836-1886)

Enlightenment Is An Evolutionary Goal. For Everyone

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“Whether or not enlightenment is a plausible goal for us is a vital question for our lives. If it is possible for us to attain such perfect enlightenment ourselves, our whole sense of meaning and our place in the universe immediately changes. To be open to the possibility is to be a spiritual seeker, no matter what our religion. Enlightenment is not meant to be an object of religious faith. It is an evolutionary goal.”   

–Robert Thurman (American Buddhist Writer, Author, Found and President of the Tibet House and Je Tsongkhapa Professor of Indo-Tibetan Buddhist Studies at Columbia University, 1941-)          

“365 Yoga” (Julie Rappaport)

The Truly Awakened Person

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“A truly awakened person is one who freely gives light, life, wisdom, knowledge, encouragement, and the outstretched hand to all with whom he comes into contact….the Divine shines out in him, awakening the aspiration to enlightenment in all those who are able to perceive it.”

–Geoffrey Hodson (English-born New Zealand Theosophist, Mystic, Teacher and Author, 1886-1983)      

“The Call to the Heights: Guidance on the Pathway to Self-Illumination (Quest Book)” (Geoffrey Hodson)   

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