Sentence examples for enlightenment struck from inspiring English sources

But then enlightenment struck, she realized she bullied her child by rushing her and decided that she would be more patient.

So Bruns' book does at times evoke those flashes of "enlightenment" that almost always struck late at night in somebody's dorm room after too much red wine, or after one too many viewings of The Matrix.

He was scheduled to summarize a dialogue between a Buddhist and a psychoanalyst, but he was suddenly struck by the fallacy that enlightenment meant complete freedom from self-deception.

I can't brag of being struck by lightening and achieving instant enlightenment.

Finding their teachings unsatisfactory, he struck out on his own, and through a combination of insight and meditational practice attained the state of enlightenment (bodhi) which is said to represent the cessation of all further suffering.

He concludes his sympathetic, balanced portrayal of schizophrenia on a note that struck me as overly romantic, gesturing toward an outworn mystical view of mental illness as a source of insight and perhaps even a form of enlightenment.

A period of enlightenment for Blanquito, a longtime hobby of rapping in Spanish and English shifted as risqué beats he heard in the streets of the favelas struck him and left him pounding for more.

While I was struck by the significant shifts of what has mattered to me throughout the years (and that I've not yet reached enlightenment or held a quarter between my pecs), another common denominator arose.

In her 50's Halprin was stricken with cancer; "enlightenment at gunpoint," she calls the experience.

The parallels between the Enlightenment and today's globalization are striking.

If terms such as 'budgeting'projectect appraisal', and 'function-based structures' strike fear into your heart, working through the tutorial modules should lead to enlightenment.