Enlightened Quotes - Page 10

• How dangerous it is rashly to adopt the Mosaical institutions [Old Testament teachings of eye for an eye]. Laws might have been proper for a tribe of ardent barbarians wandering through the sands of Arabia which are wholly unfit for an enlightened people of civilized and gentle manners.

  Gerald Heaney

  Teaching, Eye, Law

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• The path to eternal life is not on a plateau. Rather, it is an incline, ever onward and upward. Hence, ever-increasing spiritual understanding and energy are required to reach our destination. Because the pernicious opposition by Satan continues, the continuous enlightened guidance of the Holy Ghost is absolutely essential.

  Keith K. Hilbig

  Spiritual, Onward And Upward, Understanding

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• A person who is enlightened does not have to reincarnate, or they may. If they chose not to, they can go beyond the wheel, and slide into nirvana.

  Frederick Lenz

  Enlightenment, Doe, May

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• Democracy disciplined and enlightened is the finest thing in the world. A democracy prejudiced, ignorant, superstitious, will land itself in chaos and may be self-destroyed.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Self, Land, Ignorant

  Mahatma Gandhi, Dennis Dalton (1995). “Gandhi: Selected Political Writings”, p.146, Hackett Publishing

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• For our democracy has been marred by imperialism, and it has been enlightened only by individual and sporadic efforts at freedom.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Women, Democracies Have, Effort

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• If the minds of women were enlightened and improved, the domestic work would be more frequently refreshed by intelligent conversation, a means of edification now deplorably neglected, for want of that cultivation which these intellectual advantages would confer.

  Sarah Moore Grimke

  Mean, Intelligent, Intelligence

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• If you vanquish ego-clinging today, tonight you will be enlightened.

  Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche

  Freedom, Ego, Inspire

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• Which direction do we take? The one prompted by the passions or the one indicated by the star which shines in your conscience? The Magi heard the answer: "In Bethlehem of Judea; for so it is written by the prophet" (Mt 2: 5), and, enlightened by these words, they chose to press forward to the very end.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Faith, Stars, Inspiration

  Pope Benedict XVI's address during The XX World Youth Day in Cologne, Germany, w2.vatican.va. August 18, 2005.

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• The prosperity of commerce is now perceived and acknowledged by all enlightened statesmen to be the most useful as well as the most productive source of national wealth, and has accordingly become a primary object of their political cares.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Political, Care, Wealth

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (1837). “The Federalist, on the New Constitution”, p.55

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• I own myself the friend to a very free system of commerce, and hold it as a truth, that commercial shackles are generally unjust, oppressive and impolitic - it is also a truth, that if industry and labour are left to take their own course, they will generally be directed to those objects which are the most productive, and this in a more certain and direct manner than the wisdom of the most enlightened legislature could point out.

  James Madison

  Unjust, Legislature, Shackles

  James Madison, David B. Mattern (1997). “James Madison's "Advice to My Country"”, p.21, University of Virginia Press

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• Language, the machine of the poet, is best fitted for his purpose in its rudest state. Nations, like individuals, first perceive, and then abstract. They advance from particular images to general terms. Hence the vocabulary of an enlightened society is philosophical, that of a half-civilized people is poetical.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Philosophical, Vocabulary, People

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• In the wake of her indispensable textbook, Janet Burroway now offers a splendid and concise guide to the thorny task of revision. Writers, young and old, will feel encouraged and enlightened by this excellent DVD which offers a wonderful range of specific advice and suggestive comments from a group of experienced and thoughtful writers.

  Margot Livesey

  Thoughtful, Dvds, Advice

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• The reason for forgiving your enemies is not for their benefit but for your own benefit. Holding grudges against other people doesn’t hurt them; doesn’t even bother them much - in fact, even pleases them if they are still mad at you. It is not in your enlightened self-interest to hold grudges, regardless of whether it bothers the person you hate or not.

  Brad Blanton

  Hurt, Hate, Self

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• Posterity has never made the grave's embrace less cruel. It simply assuages our fear of death, because there is no better cure for out inevitable morality then the illusion of a beautiful eternity. But there is one illusion I still hold dear: that is the thought of an enlightened nation. That is the only future I still dream of.

  Yasmina Khadra

  Beautiful, Dream, Morality

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• Having traveled across America and to 24 counties as the first-ever UN Youth Champion, I’m inspired by the desire of young people everywhere to make the world a better place. At GimmeMo’, our goal is to build a global community of enlightened young people — those who wish to be the change they wish to see in the world, to borrow a phrase from Gandhi — and to raise awareness surrounding some of the biggest challenges that Millennials face both in the U.S. and around the world.

  Monique Coleman

  America, People, Goal

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• The enlightened world will be one in which everyone is in love with everyone all the time. We will see each other as God created us: as the perfect, loving, and lovable people we really are. The purpose of romantic love is to jump-start our enlightenment.

  Marianne Williamson

  Romantic Love, Love Is, People

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• My dog doesn't worry about the meaning of life.  She may worry if she doesn't get her breakfast, but she doesn't sit around worrying whether she will get fulfilled or liberated or enlightened.  As long as she gets some food and a little affection, her life is fine.  But we human beings are not like dogs.  We have self-centered minds which get us into plenty of trouble.  If we do not come to understand the error in the way we think, our self-awareness, which is our greatest blessing, is also our downfall.

  Joko Beck

  Dog, Thinking, Blessing

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• Art is a necessity - an essential part of our enlightenment process. We cannot, as a civilized society, regard ourselves as being enlightened without the arts.

  Ken Danby

  Art, Enlightenment, Essentials

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• There are some who maintain that trade will regulate itself, and it is not to be benefited by the encouragements or restraints of government. Such persons will imagine that there is no need of a common directing power. This is one of those wild speculative paradoxes, which have grown into credit among us, contrary to the uniform practice and sense of the most enlightened nations.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Encouragement, Government, Practice

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (1875). “The Federalist: A Commentary on the Constitution of the United States : a Collection of Essays”, p.154

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• Elderly people and those in authority cannot always be relied upon to take enlightened and comprehending views of what they call the indiscretions of youth.

  Winston Churchill

  Elderly, Views, People

  Winston Churchill (2010). “My Early Life: 1874-1904”, p.73, Simon and Schuster

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• The new world economic order is not an exercise in philanthropy, but in enlightened self-interest for everyone concerned.

  Carlos Fuentes

  Exercise, Self, Order

  Carlos Fuentes (1985). “Latin America: At War With the Past”, House of Anansi Press

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• Anti-Semitism is a horrible disease from which nobody is immune, and it has a kind of evil fascination that makes an enlightened person draw near the source of infection, supposedly in a scientific spirit, but really to sniff the vapors and dally with the possibility.

  Mary McCarthy

  Race, Racism, Evil

  Mary McCarthy (1964). “The humanist in the bathtub”

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• In the assemblies of the enlightened ones there have been many cases of mastering the Way bringing forth the heart of plants and trees; this is what awakening the mind for enlightenment is like. The fifth patriarch of Zen was once a pine-planting wayfarer; Rinzai worked on planting cedars and pines on Mount Obaku. . . . Working with plants, trees, fences and walls, if they practice sincerely they will attain enlightenment.

  Dogen

  Wall, Heart, Practice

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• 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.

  Anita Moorjani

  Spiritual, Elude Us, Mind

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• You yourself must earnestly practice, the enlightened ones only proclaim the path.

  Gautama Buddha

  Inspiration, Path, Practise

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