Enlightened Quotes - Page 35

• Many a man in his hour of trial has turned to the Book of Mormon and been enlightened, enlivened, and comforted. The psalms in the Old Testament have a special food for the soul of one in distress.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Book, Men, Soul

  Ezra Taft Benson (1988). “The Teachings of Ezra Taft Benson”, Bookcraft Pubs

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• Civilization just takes it as a given that the whole world was flooding. Then science came and you had geology and modern astrophysics, and time became well understood going back billions of years. So enlightened religious people, as a necessity, had to shed the magical elements of the Bible. A little known fact is that Thomas Jefferson did just that. There's something called the Jefferson Bible. It's not widely publicized because it sort of conflicts with certain people's ideas of what the founding fathers were.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Religious, Father, Years

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The women of this country ought be enlightened in regard to the laws under which they live, that they may no longer publish their degradation by declaring themselves satisfied with their present position, nor their ignorance, by asserting that they have all the rights they want.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Country, Women, Ignorance

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan Brownell Anthony, Ann Dexter Gordon (1997). “The Selected Papers of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony: In the school of anti-slavery, 1840 to 1866”, p.77, Rutgers University Press

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• No matter how developed you are in any other area of your life, no matter what you say you believe, no matter how sophisticated or enlightened you think you are, how you eat tells all.

  Geneen Roth

  Believe, Thinking, Matter

  Geneen Roth (2011). “Women Food and God: An Unexpected Path to Almost Everything”, p.81, Simon and Schuster

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• Filling the conscious mind with ideal conceptions is a characteristic of Western theosophy, but not the confrontation with the Shadow and the world of darkness. One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious. The latter procedure, however, is disagreeable and therefore not popular.

  Carl Jung

  Light, Darkness, Mind

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• Shankara commented on Krishna, on the Upanishads, on the Brahma Sutras. Ramanuja commented on the ancient enlightened people, Vallabha did the same. It has always been so in the East, because much dust gathers as time passes. Now, the Upanishads were written in a totally different world. That man has disappeared, that mind has disappeared, that world no more exists.

  Rajneesh

  Men, Dust, People

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• Conscience is merely our own judgment of the right or wrong of our actions, and so can never be a safe guide unless enlightened by the word of God.

  Tryon Edwards

  Safe, Our Actions, Judgment

  Tryon Edwards (2015). “The New Dictionary of Thoughts”, p.231, Ravenio Books

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• Watching both the health care and climate/energy debates in Congress, it is hard not to draw the following conclusion: There is only one thing worse than one-party autocracy, and that is one-party democracy, which is what we have in America today. One-party autocracy certainly has its drawbacks. But when it is led by a reasonably enlightened group of people, as China is today, it can also have great advantages.

  Thomas Friedman

  Stupid, Party, America

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• When we commit ourselves to writing for some part of each day, we are happier, more enlightened, alive, light-hearted and generous to everyone else. Even our health improves.

  Brenda Ueland

  Writing, Light, Each Day

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• We walk, and our religion is shown even to the dullest and most insensitive person in how we walk. Or to put it more accurately, living in this world means choosing, choosing to walk, and the way we choose to walk is infallibly and perfectly expressed in the walk itself. Nothing can disguise it. The walk of an ordinary man and of an enlightened man are as different as that of a snake and a giraffe.

  Reginald Horace Blyth

  Mean, Men, Snakes

  Reginald Horace Blyth (1948). “Zen in English literature and oriental classics”

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• Imagine a world in which we are all enlightened by objective truths rather than offended by them.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Objective Truth, World, Imagine

  Twitter post from Dec 27, 2014

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• May we be enlightened by a ray of the light that comes from Bethlehem, the light of He who is 'The Greatest' and made himself small.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Light, Rays, May

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• Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darkness's of other people. One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious. The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely. Your visions will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

  Carl Jung

  Dream, Heart, Light

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• An enlightened citizenry is indispensable for the proper functioning of a republic. Self-government is not possible unless the citizens are educated sufficiently to enable them to exercise oversight. It is therefore imperative that the nation see to it that a suitable education be provided for all its citizens.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Exercise, Government, Self

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• To be enlightened is to know that heaven is not "coming." Heaven is here.

  Joan D. Chittister

  Heaven, Awareness, Knows

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• Those who are enlightened never stop forging themselves.

  Morihei Ueshiba

  Forging

  Morihei Ueshiba, John Stevens (2010). “The Art of Peace”, p.79, Shambhala Publications

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• It is taught, we too can be enlightened, every one of us. We can be completely freed from the bonds of limitation and conditioned confusion through our own endeavor, inspiration, effort and development. There is a path, and we can traverse it.

  Sharon Salzberg

  Inspiration, Confusion, Effort

  "A True Refuge" by Sharon Salzberg, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 21, 2012.

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• Studying the Buddha way is studying oneself. Studying oneself is forgetting oneself. Forgetting oneself is being enlightened by all things. Being enlightened by all things is to shed the body-mind of oneself, and those of others. No trace of enlightenment remains, and this traceless enlightenment continues endlessly.

  Dogen

  Self, Mind, Enlightenment

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• Business often does a good job supporting communities: the arts, universities, and scientific enterprises... But that philosophy has rarely reached poor countries. Even businesses that are enlightened in their home bases see Africa, Latin America, and parts of Asia as places to exploit natural resources or use cheap labor.

  Jeffrey Sachs

  Country, Art, Jobs

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• The most noble of all pursuits is to be enlightened, to know truth, to have knowledge and yet be beyond even truth and knowledge, to be God.

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Buddhism, Noble

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• Yoga means we accept responsibility for the tasks in our life, and we know that being a king, being an enlightened teacher, being someone who sweeps the streets, we know that nothing is a greater yoga than anything else.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Kings, Yoga

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• You have to be a warrior in order to become enlightened. If you think it's tough paying the bills, think about being everywhere all at once and doing everything in all the universes, simultaneously, past, present, and future.

  Frederick Lenz

  Warrior, Past, Thinking

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• When a poet digs himself into a hole, he doesn't climb out. He digs deeper, enjoys the scenery, and comes out the other side enlightened.

  Criss Jami

  Inspirational, Sides, Poet

  Criss Jami (2012). “Venus in Arms”, p.42, Criss Jami

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• You see a very advanced master who's got a girlfriend, who listens to rock and roll, who thinks about things that are very earthly. The advanced course has to with coming back to everything that you had to reject in the beginning and seeing it as a far greater infiniteness than everything that you've attained.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Girlfriend, Thinking

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• Some people say that if you have sex you can't be enlightened. I think it isn't really so much whether you have sex or not, but it's what you're doing with your attention level during that time.

  Frederick Lenz

  Sex, Buddhism, Thinking

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