Enlightened Quotes - Page 15

• Whether you believe it a moral imperative or in the rich world's enlightened self-interest, securing the conditions that will lead to a healthy, prosperous future for everyone is a goal I believe we all share.

  Bill Gates

  Believe, Prosperous Future, Self

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• To relate is to react. To react is to understand oneself. To understand oneself is to be enlightened. Relationships are schools for enlightenment.

  Anthony de Mello

  School, Enlightenment, Awareness

  Anthony De Mello (2012). “Heart of the Enlightened: A Book of Story Meditations”, p.130, Image

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• The idea of UFOs is becoming a very prevalent phenomenon in people's consciousness. People believe in them. What does this mean? It means that people have a place to look to other than our government! People have a place to look for guidance and authority that is much more enlightened.

  Brad Steiger

  Believe, Mean, Government

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• Muslims all over the world are looking with high expectations toward the ummah community in the United States and Canada. Its dynamism, fresh approach, enlightened scholarship and sheer growth is their hope for an Islamic renaissance worldwide.

  Murad Wilfried Hofmann

  Islamic, Expectations, Community

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• And that may be [Helen Gurley] Brown’s most enlightened lesson: that sexual autonomy and fulfillment are inseparable from the autonomy and fulfillment that a woman gets from her career.

  Judith Thurman

  Careers, Lessons, May

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• There is nothing you need to do first in order to be enlightened.

  Thaddeus Golas

  Order, Needs, Firsts

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• Intelligent people know others. Enlightened people know themselves.

  Laozi

  Intelligent, People, Taoism

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• All discourse of which others cannot partake is not only an irksome usurpation of the time devoted to pleasure and entertainment, but, what never fails to excite resentment, an insolent assertion of superiority, and a triumph over less enlightened understandings. The pedant is, therefore, not only heard with weariness but malignity; and those who conceive themselves insulted by his knowledge never fail to tell with acrimony how injudiciously it was exerted.

  Samuel Johnson

  Understanding, Triumph, Acrimony

  Samuel Johnson (1810). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With An Essay on His Life and Genius”, p.196

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• To the enlightened man... whose consciousness embraces the universe, to him the universe becomes his 'body', while the physical body becomes the manifestation of the universal mind. His inner vision an expression of the highest reality, and his speech an expression of eternal truth and mantric power.

  Anagarika Govinda

  Reality, Men, Expression

  Anagarika Govinda (1987). “Foundations of Tibetan Mysticism”, Random House (UK)

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• The remedy for speech that is false is speech that is true. This is the ordinary course in a free society. The response to the unreasoned is the rational; to the uninformed, the enlightened; to the straight-out lie, the simple truth.

  Anthony Kennedy

  Lying, Simple, Ordinary

  "Justice Kennedy Wants You to Fight Lies with Truth" by Robyn Hagan Cain, blogs.findlaw.com. June 29, 2012.

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• Relaxation is the point. And if you can relax with an enlightened person his enlightenment will start penetrating you, because when you are relaxed you become porous. When you are tense you are closed; when you relax he will enter

  Rajneesh

  Inspiring, Relaxation, Enlightenment

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• What's right with America and what's right with Islam have a lot in common. At their highest levels, both worldviews reflect an enlightened recognition that all of humankind shares a common Creator - that we are, indeed, brothers and sisters.

  Feisal Abdul Rauf

  Brother, America, Islam

  "Imam Rauf: What's right with Islam" by Feisal Abdul Rauf, www.cnn.com. September 12, 2010.

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• The enlightened attention rejects nothing nor welcomes anything-like a mirror it responds equally to all.

  Zhuangzi

  Mirrors, Enlightenment, Attention

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• The person who says, 'I'm enlightened' probably isn't.

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  Ram Dass

  Enlightenment, Persons

  Ram Dass (1971). “Remember, now be here, now here be”

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• There is nobody who is so enlightened that they don't need to work on themselves.

  Terence McKenna

  Needs

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• Use power carefully. Don't be afraid to have it. Learn balance and wisdom in addition to the unlocking of the kundalini, if you wish to have a happy and enlightened life.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Balance, Wish

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• Mysticism is concerned primarily with moving our awareness field from the beginning of the band of perception, the human band, up to the enlightened bands of perception.

  Frederick Lenz

  Moving, Buddhism, Perception

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• Strictly speaking, there is no such thing as an enlightened person. There is only enlightened activity.

  Shunryu Suzuki

  Persons, Activity

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• There is a great difference between feeding parties to wild beasts and stirring up their finer feelings in an inquisition. One is the system of degraded barbarians, the other of enlightened civilized people.

  Mark Twain

  Party, Civilization, Differences

  Mark Twain (1869). “The Innocents Abroad: or, The New Pilgrims' Progress”, p.275

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• Civilization largely consists in hiding human nature. When the barbarian learns to hide it we account him enlightened.

  Mark Twain

  Civilization, Barbarians, Human Nature

  Mark Twain (1972). “Everyone's Mark Twain”

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• If I say, if I talk about, 'I want to be enlightened...' it implies a future. And there isn't any.

  Byron Katie

  Future, Reality, Want

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

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• Enlightened Society is all about nurturing the human spirit - waking up to the goodness, kindness and strength that we already have.

  Sakyong Mipham

  Kindness, Wake Up, Waking

  Sakyong Mipham (2013). “The Shambhala Principle: Discovering Humanity's Hidden Treasure”, p.34, Harmony

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• I hope you will attain enlightenment. I am here to tell you that you already have! But you don't know... The difference between the Buddha and us is the confidence in knowing that he was enlightened.

  Sakyong Mipham

  Differences, Knowing, Enlightenment

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• ...angels... are always being filled full of light, becoming ever more radiant and making blessed use of their natural ability to change. They dance for joy around the First Light, look continuously towards Him and are enlightened directly by Him, as they tirelessly sing the praises of the Fount of light and, being ministers of light, transmit illuminating grace to those lower beings who are being enlightened.

  Gregory Palamas

  Christian, Blessed, Angel

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• Shambhala vision is universal. It has no bias towards one type of culture or group. It is not ethnocentric and does not encourage one specific kind of person, race, or religion. Shambhala vision promotes a universality in relationship to basic goodness. All human beings are basically good and an enlightened society, at various levels of manifestation, can occur in any culture.

  Sakyong Mipham

  Race, Vision, Groups

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