Enlightened Quotes - Page 11

• 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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• When I am doing things around the house - when I'm decorating, setting up furniture, putting out a vase of flowers, lighting my candles, my mind is always thinking, "What do I need to do to make this space peaceful and restful and comfortable so that when people walk into it, aesthetically they're heightened and enlightened?"

  Evangeline Lilly

  Flower, Thinking, Space

  Source: www.justjared.com

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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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• When the liver is diseased, the eyesight fails; when the kidneys are diseased, the hearing is adversely affected. The disease is not visible, but its effects are. Therefore, enlightened people, wishing to be free from obvious faults, first get rid of hidden faults.

  Zicheng Hong

  People, Taoism, Wish

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• As a child there was no place for adventure or experimentation. I guess that kind of freedom started in high school with punk rock. That's what enlightened me to not being afraid to express myself.

  Mark McNairy

  Children, School, Adventure

  Source: wwd.com

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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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• Business and scholarship pass away with the person, but the soul is forever like new. Fame and fortune change with the generations, but the spirit is always the same. Enlightened people surely should not exchange the lasting for the ephemeral.

  Zicheng Hong

  People, Forever, Soul

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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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• Those who act on excitement act intermittently; this is hardly the way to avoid regression. Those whose understanding comes from emotional perceptions are as confused as they are enlightened; this is not a lamp that is constantly bright.

  Zicheng Hong

  Confused, Emotional, Understanding

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• To become learned, each day add something. To become enlightened, each day drop something

  Laozi

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Philosophy

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• Some architects think of clients only as sources of work and income but most good architecture is in fact the result of successful design collaboration between a talented architect and an enlightened, motivated client.

  Roger K. Lewis

  Successful, Thinking, Design

  Roger K. Lewis (2013). “Architect?: A Candid Guide to the Profession”, p.285, MIT Press

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• Enlightened people like Osho are ahead of their times. It is good that more and more young people are now reading his works.

  K. R. Narayanan

  Reading, People, Young

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• I would like to live to see the time when the men and woman of God - holy, separated and spiritually enlightened - walk out of the evangelical
  church and form a group of their own; when they get off the sinking ship and let her go down in the brackish and worldliness and form a new ark to ride out the storm.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Men, Storm, Church

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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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• So there's only transcendence in the moment. Nobody can be transcended forever. That's why I say, "Who cares if you're enlightened forever?"

  Byron Katie

  Time, Freedom, Forever

  Interview with Sunny Massad, realization.org. October 23, 2001.

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• To study the Way is to study the Self. To study the Self is to forget the self. To forget the self is to be enlightened by all things of the universe. To be enlightened by all things of the universe is to cast off the body and mind of the self as well as those of others. Even the traces of enlightenment are wiped out, and life with traceless enlightenment goes on forever and ever

  Dogen

  Self, Forever, Mind

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• Every individual has the potentiality to become enlightened in the course of this life or later existences

  Anagarika Govinda

  Healing, Individual, This Life

  Anagarika Brahmacari Govinda (1976). “Creative meditation and multi-dimensional consciousness”, Quest Books

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• The arbitrary rule of a just and enlightened prince is always bad. His virtues are the most dangerous and the surest form of seduction: they lull a people imperceptibly into the habit of loving, respecting, and serving his successor, whoever that successor may be, no matter how wicked or stupid.

  Denis Diderot

  Stupid, People, Wicked

  Denis Diderot (1966). “Selected Writings”, New York : Macmillan

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• Illiteracy must be banished from the land if we shall attain that high destiny as the foremost of the enlightened nations of the world which, under Providence, we ought to achieve.

  William McKinley

  Destiny, Land, World

  William McKinley (2012). “A Supplement to A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents”, p.19, tredition

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• Under a socialist system every nation will be the supreme arbiter of its own destinies, national and international; will be forced into no alliance against its will, but will have its independence guaranteed and its freedom respected by the enlightened self-interest of the socialist democracy of the world.

  James Connolly

  Destiny, Self, Independence

  James Connolly, Peter Berresford-Ellis (1988). “James Connolly: Selected Writings”, p.34, Pluto Press

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