Enlightening Quotes - Page 9

• If the Great Way perishes there will morality and duty. When cleverness and knowledge arise great lies will flourish. When relatives fall out with one another there will be filial duty and love. When states are in confusion there will be faithful servants.

  Laozi

  Love, Inspirational, Lying

  "An Essential Part of Being'" by Brian Weatherley, November 12, 2010.

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• Lord, enlighten thou our enemies. Sharpen their wits, give acuteness to their perceptions, and consecutiveness and clearness to their reasoning powers: we are in danger from their folly, not from their wisdom; their weakness is what fills us with apprehension, not their strength.

  John Stuart Mill

  Giving, Perception, Enemy

  John Stuart Mill (1864). “Dissertations and Discussions: Political, Philosophical, and Historical”, p.77

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• Do not imagine that an integral being has the ambition of enlightening the unaware or raising worldly people to the divine realm. To her, there is no self and other, and hence no one to be raised; no heaven and hell, and hence no destination.

  Laozi

  Ambition, Self, People

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• Simulated disorder postulates perfect discipline; simulated fear postulates courage; simulated weakness postulates strength.

  Laozi

  Inspirational, Strength, Courage

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• Maxims are to the intellect what laws are to actions; they do not enlighten, but they guide and direct, and, although themselves blind, are protective.

  Joseph Joubert

  Law, Action, Blind

  Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

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• The whole function of the life of prayer is, then, to enlighten and strengthen our conscience so that it not only knows and perceives the outward, written precepts of the moral and divine laws, but above all lives God's law in concrete reality by perfect and continual union with His will.

  Thomas Merton

  Wisdom, Prayer, Reality

  Thomas Merton (2005). “No Man is an Island”, p.42, Shambhala Publications

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• Unless the schools provide our children with a vision of human possibility that enlightens and empowers them with knowledge and taste, they will simply play their role in someone else's marketing schemes. Unless they understand deeply the sources of our democracy, they will take it for granted and fail to exercise their rights and responsibilities.

  Diane Ravitch

  Children, School, Responsibility

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• Erudite and entertaining, Max Anderson is the perfect tour guide to the world of art. The Quality Instinct is both educational and enlightening from start to finish, the thinking person's guide to museums. This is a must-read for anyone who wants to truly understand what makes a masterpiece.

  Daniel Silva

  Art, Educational, Thinking

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• Remain open. There is something bigger than you know going on here.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Bigger, Knows

  Twitter post from Mar 12, 2017

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• We will not forget that Liberty has made her home here, nor shall her chosen altar be neglected...A stream of light shall pierce the darkness of ignorance and mans oppression until Liberty enlightens the world.

  Grover Cleveland

  Home, Ignorance, Light

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• We saw one school-house in our walk, and listened to the sounds which issued from it; but it appeared like a place where the process, not of enlightening, but of obfuscating the mind was going on, and the pupils received only so much light as could penetrate the shadow of the Catholic church.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Education, School, Light

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “A Yankee in Canada”, p.35, Graphic Arts Books

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• A mentor is someone who sees more talent and ability within you, than you see in yourself, and helps bring it out of you.

  Bob Proctor

  Wisdom, Mentor, Helping

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• I do not concern myself with gods and spirits either good or evil nor do I serve any.

  Laozi

  Inspirational, Evil, Taoism

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• As you become more present in your own life, you will begin to enlighten others by your example.

  Germany Kent

  Example

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• Love holds no grievances.

  Helen Schucman

  Grievance

  Helen Schucman “A Course in Miracles - Manual For Teachers”, A Course in Miracles

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• Man loves because he is Love. He seeks Joy, for he is Joy. He thirsts for God for he is composed of God and he cannot exist without Him.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Love Is, Men, Joy

  FaceBook post by Sri Sathya Sai Baba from Jan 15, 2017

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• Pinterest is like window shopping 3.0.

  Gary Vaynerchuk

  Window Shopping, Marketing, Pinterest

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• Eating a meal with full awareness can be a powerful, enlightening, and healing experience.

  David Simon

  Powerful, Food, Healing

  David Simon, M.D. (1999). “Return to Wholeness: Embracing Body, Mind, and Spirit in the Face of Cancer”, Wiley

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• A ray of imagination or of wisdom may enlighten the universe, and glow into remotest centuries.

  George Berkeley

  Imagination, Rays, May

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• Let's ask ourselves: are we open to the Holy Spirit, do I pray to him to enlighten me, to make me more sensitive to the things of God?
  
  And this is a prayer we need to pray every day, every day: Holy Spirit may my heart be open to the Word of God, may my heart be open to good, may my heart be open to the beauty of God, every day.

  Pope Francis

  Prayer, Heart, Needs

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• Architecture
  is a small piece of this human equation, but for those of us who practice it,
  we believe in its potential to make a difference, to enlighten and to enrich the
  human experience, to penetrate the barriers of misunderstandin g and provide a
  beautiful context for life's drama.

  Frank Gehry

  Beautiful, Drama, Believe

  Casey C. M. Mathewson, Frank O. Gehry (2007). “Frank O. Gehry: Selected Works : 1969 to Today”, Firefly Books Limited

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• As artists, we have an opportunity to help the public evolve, raise consciousness and awareness, teach, heal, enlighten and inspire in ways the democratic process may not be able to touch. So we keep it moving.

  Lauryn Hill

  Moving, Artist, Opportunity

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• If from one burning lamp someone lights another, then another from that one, and so on in succession, he has light continuously. In the same way, through the Apostles ordaining their successors, and these successors ordaining others, and so on, the grace of the Holy Spirit is handed down through all generations and enlightens all who obey their spiritual shepherds and teachers.

  Gregory Palamas

  Christian, Spiritual, Teacher

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• Failure to spend the [presentation] time wisely and well, failure to educate, entertain, elucidate, enlighten, and most important of all, failure to maintain attention and interest should be punishable by stoning. There is no excuse for tedium.

  Jay H. Lehr

  Important, Attention, No Excuses

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• Everything you do, every experience that you have, enlightens you a little bit or worsens you.

  Paul Dano

  Littles, Bits, Little Bit

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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