Best 207 quotes in «enlightened quotes» category

Only a couple of times have I ever been to church and felt enlightened by it.

PANTALOONS, n. A nether habiliment of the adult civilized male. The garment is tubular and unprovided with hinges at the points of flexion. Supposed to have been invented by a humorist. Called trousers by the enlightened and pants by the unworthy.

Sexuality is one of the ways that we become enlightened, actually, because it leads us to self-knowledge.

Personal power is the reflection of a person of knowledge. A person of knowledge, an enlightened person, a person even close to enlightenment, has a great deal of personal power.

Positions are just a social construct that mean nothing to the enlightened man.

Regardless of the importance of known evidence to the contrary, the arts are generally regarded as being so much entertaining fluff, a commodity that isn't a priority in the traditional program of learning. This is unacceptable in a so-called 'enlightened' society.

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

Shambhala teachings say we all have the potential to accomplish our enlightened nature - our basic goodness.

Prophecy, that universal and perpetual torch by which faith is enlightened.

Reading nurtures the soul, and an enlightened friend brings it solace.

Republic of the West, Enlightened, free, sublime, Unquestionably best Production of our time.

Self-interest, be it enlightened, works indirectly for the public good.

Shakespeare, with an improved education and in a more enlightened age, might easily have attained the purity and correction of Racine; but nothing leads one to suppose that Racine in a barbarous age would have attained the grandeur, force and nature of Shakespeare.

so it is with human reason, which strives not against faith, when enlightened, but rather furthers and advances it.

The condition of an enlightened mind is a surrendered heart.

Some souls attain enlightenment. No one knows why. You could say it is individual inclination. I'm not convinced that's the case.

The greatest obstacle to enlightenment is getting past your delusion that you are not already enlightened.

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

The enlightened being can look through states of mind, but they are also outside of them.

There can be associations - enlightened businesses, for example - that do not work on the basis of us against them or wanting profit as the main motivating force behind what they do.

The ignorant ever shun and dread the gifted and enlightened.

The only enlightened masters I know are the people that I see every day and the people that I've seen through my life who have had the understanding, at some level, that we're here to express love.

There have been errors in the administration of the most enlightened men.

The kind who live for music and are constantly seeking it out, anywhere they can. Who can't imagine a life without it. They're enlightened.

The more enlightened our houses are, the more their walls ooze ghosts.

The part of me that is both a spiritual seeker and a social activist meet in this understanding of enlightened power coming from a deep, genuine well within each person.

There are some teachers who just perform miracles. They can manifest things from the other world into this world. They have siddha powers. They are not necessarily enlightened.

There is always a certain amount of 'transmission loss.' You can have a power generator and if the power is going on 100 miles away, even with very efficient cable there could be a certain amount of loss.

The sage belongs to the same obsolete repertory as the virtuous maiden and the enlightened monarch.

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

The scriptures recommend love and service to the enlightened to develop purity.

The ultimate horror movie for a really un-illuminated being is an enlightened person. They are scared of others seeing what they are all about and what they really do. They are scared of truth.

Those who are enlightened never stop forging themselves.

To be enlightened means that you really don't change, and yet you're nothing but change.

To be enlightened is to know oneself and not run away.

What the enlightened person sees no one could ever tell or describe. Wonder beyond belief. We live in a universe filled with wonder. It is wonder just to live.

Truly enlightened people never seek to be like others. Rather, they seek to be superior to their former selves.

True religion extends alike to the intellect and the heart. Intellect is in vain if it lead not to emotion, and emotion is vain if not enlightened by intellect; and both are vain if not guided by truth and leading to duty.

What a fine persecution—to be kept intrigued without ever quite being enlightened.

A Gnani [the enlightened one] does not have to turn beads of a rosary; He turns the beads of own’s own Self (the Soul).

With a teacher it is necessary to be sensitive to their directions; most of the time they won't say much. You have to be still and silent to understand.

You realize that suicide's a criminal offense. In less enlightened times they'd have hung you for it.

Whether a Buddha comes into the world or not, the nature of things is still the nature of things. The Buddha is someone who realizes what is true, what actually exists. If we want to become enlightened, we simply have to acknowledge or recognize what is.

With an open mind, seek and listen to all the highest ideals. Consider the most enlightened thoughts. Then choose your path, person by person, each for oneself.

You are god. To be conscious of that not just from the point of view of the human form, to be endless and beginningless perfect being, is to be enlightened.

You could go through incarnations forever and never become enlightened, unless of course you do something about it.

You yourself must earnestly practice, the enlightened ones only proclaim the path.

Enlightenment is to replace your own self with the self of the universe!

Any type of desire is beggary. One who is without any desire is called ‘Gnani’ [the enlightened one].

As a leader, 1st, work on yourself- increase your self-awareness. There shouldn't be any other urgent agenda than this. Get enlightened! Know very well who you're including your strengths, weaknesses, and blind spots!