satori

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Meaning

(Zen Buddhism) a state of sudden spiritual enlightenment

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Life is full of tough decisions, and nothing makes them easy. But the worst ones are really your personal koans, and tormenting ambivalence is just the sense of satori rising. Try, trust, try, and trust again, and eventually you'll feel your mind change its focus to a new level of understanding. Martha Beck

Until now, I had misunderstood the Satori, enlightenment of Zen Buddhism. I had thought that satori is to die without fear anytime. But it is a wrong guess. The satori is to live unconcernedly anytime. Masaoka Shiki

I'm not speaking as someone who has reached satori or anything else. I'm a student. Sting (musician)

I realized that for this moment, nothing in the past mattered. Nothing terrible in the future mattered. What mattered was her skin against me, her hand holding me, the perfume of her hair and skin and the warmth of her breath against my chest. This was satori. This was truth. Dan Simmons

At the highest level of satori from which people return, the point of consciousness becomes a surface or a solid which extends throughout the whole known universe. John C. Lilly

Joseph Campbell, Sake & Satori: Asian Journals—Japan, edited by David Kudler. Source: Internet

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