Enlightening Quotes - Page 3

• The basic nature of all conscious beings is 'self-existing wakefulness'.
  Self-existing meaning spontaneous or without effort and wakefulness meaning natural awareness.
  To ignore our basic nature, is to wander in fear and confusion,
  to directly realise our essential nature is to be Enlightened.

  Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche

  Spiritual, Nature, Buddhist

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• Sit with those who love Allah, for that enlightens the mind.

  Umar

  Inspiring, Mind, Love Allah

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• Happiness is to be found along the way, not at the end of the road, for then the journey is over and it is too late. Today, this hour, this minute is the day, the hour, the minute for each of us to sense the fact that life is good, with all of its trials and troubles, and perhaps more interesting because of them.

  Robert Updegraff

  Inspiring, Wisdom, Moving

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• Today I felt like a part of something awesome, the human race. I know it can be ugly; it really is in so many ways. But today there was nothing ugly to see, just people trying to be better. And maybe that's the key. Not resolutions and forgotten promises, but instead a commitment to do this year a little better than the last. I'm feeling good about this one. I really am.

  Andrew McMahon

  Commitment, Keys, Race

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• [A community chalkboard is] about knowing you're not alone. It's about understanding our neighbors in new and enlightening ways.

  Candy Chang

  Motivation, Inspiration, Knowing

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• I don't subscribe to the thesis, 'Let the buyer beware,' I prefer the disregarded one that goes, 'Let the seller be honest.'

  Isaac Asimov

  Honest, Buyers, Thesis

  Isaac Asimov (1995). “Yours, Isaac Asimov: A Lifetime of Letters”, Doubleday Books

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• Chess is life in miniature. Chess is struggle, chess is battles

  Garry Kasparov

  Struggle, Battle, Chess

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• Through the Goddess, we can discover our strength, enlighten our minds, own our bodies, and celebrate our emotions.

  Starhawk

  Mind, Body, Paganism

  Starhawk (2011). “The Spiral Dance: A Rebirth of the Ancient Religion of the Goddess: 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.67, Harper Collins

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• One does not have to be a 'climate change denier' to see that a degree of skepticism about the present consensus might be in order....Most likely, now - as in the past - many analysts have become carried away by the results of their models, which purport to look into a far distant future, and have convinced themselves that they must embark on a crusade to enlighten others.

  Colin Robinson

  Past, Order, Climate

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• Man's enemies are not demons, but human beings like himself.

  Laozi

  Inspirational, Men, Enemy

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• St. Joseph was a just man, a tireless worker, the upright guardian of those entrusted to his care. May he always guard, protect and enlighten families.

  Pope John Paul II

  Men, Care, May

  Pope John Paul II (1981). “Apostolic Exhortation, the Role of the Christian Family in the Modern World: Familiaris Consortio”

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• Some find Lebanese poet Kahlil Gibran’s poetry preachy and moralizing, but I find it plenty enlightening—it’s hard to object to the melodic, cosmic of mysticism of a line like ‘That which sings and contemplates in you is still dwelling within the bounds of that first moment which scattered the stars into space.’

  Khalil

  Stars, Dwelling, Space

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• I've found that falling doesn't always leave you fallen for.

  Andrew McMahon

  Fall, Found, Fallen

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• I can say for the first time that I am not afraid, and while this is a feeling that can undoubtedly change with time, I feel cradled by this universe and the immense love that comes from it.

  Andrew McMahon

  Feelings, Firsts, Immense Love

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• It's easy to love the snow because at the end of every snowstorm it's as if the world has started over. There is no dirt, no footprints, just a layer of seamless, indiscriminate nature connecting everything to everything else. Isn't that the amazing thing about the natural world? You can tear it down, you can drill holes in it, you can ignore its power with all your might, but one morning you wake up and it has selflessly given despite all of our abuse. I think I'll make a snowman.

  Andrew McMahon

  Morning, Thinking, Snow

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• I have found that searching for insight is more often than not a path to total darkness

  Andrew McMahon

  Darkness, Path, Found

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• You victorious martyrs who endured torments gladly for the sake of God and Savior, you who have boldness of speech toward the Lord Himself, you saints, intercede for us who are timid and sinful men, full of sloth, that the grace of Christ may come upon us, and enlighten the hearts of all of us so that we may love Him.

  Ephrem the Syrian

  Love, Heart, Men

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• And seemingly as winter has become spring, confusion has become insight.

  Andrew McMahon

  Spring, Winter, Confusion

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• The liberal arts inform and enlighten the independent citizen of a democracy in the use of his own resources.... They enlarge his capacity for self-knowledge and expand his opportunities for self-improvement.... They are the wellsprings of a free society.

  Alfred Whitney Griswold

  Art, Independent, Opportunity

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• A dramatic experience concerned with the mundane may inform but it cannot release; and one concerned essentially with the aesthetic politics of its creators may divert or anger, but it cannot enlighten.

  David Mamet

  Theatre, May, Dramatic

  David Mamet (1986). “Writing in restaurants”, Viking Adult

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• Most misfortunes are the results of misused time.

  Napoleon Hill

  Wisdom, Motivation, Results

  Napoleon Hill (1997). “Napoleon Hill's Positive Action Plan: 365 Meditations For Making Each Day a Success”, p.69, Penguin

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• Autobiography of a Yogi is justifiably celebrated as one of the most entertaining and enlightening spiritual books ever written.

  Tom Butler-Bowdon

  Spiritual, Book, Yogi

  Tom Butler-Bowdon (2010). “50 Spiritual Classics: Timeless Wisdom From 50 Great Books of Inner Discovery, Enlightenment and Purpose”, p.301, Nicholas Brealey Publishing

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• I am lucky. I did not choose this life. It chose me. It's strange like that; not picking my path, but rather easing into the water and letting it carry me where it will. Yes, there will be nights where I feel like my destiny is at my fingertips and there will be nights I wish the lights were off and I could just make these sounds in the dark. Still, I will always be there, wherever there might be, staring into blackness hoping the blackness stares back at me.

  Andrew McMahon

  Dark, Night, Destiny

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• I think what I represent is achieving what you want in life. It's a matter of your attitude. Some people have a negative attitude, and that's their disability.

  Marla Runyan

  Wisdom, Attitude, Thinking

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• I do not enlighten those who are not eager to learn, nor arouse those who are not anxious to give an explanation themselves. If I have presented one corner of the square and they cannot come back to me with the other three, I should not go over the points again.

  Confucius

  Squares, Giving, Three

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