Best 207 quotes in «enlightened quotes» category

Democracy, disciplined and enlightened, is the finest thing in the world.

Even enlightened despots don't make very good teachers.

Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility.

Enlightened statesmen will not always be at the helm.

How can anybody be enlightened? Truth is after all so poorly lit

Hence the saying: The enlightened ruler lays his plans well ahead; the good general cultivates his resources.

Every individual has the potentiality to become enlightened in the course of this life or later existences

Fill yourself with the power of wisdom and enlightenment.

Going back to the origin is called peace; it means reversion to destiny. Reversion to destiny is called eternity. Those who know eternity are called enlightened.

HELLO! Look at me. HELLO! I am so ZEN. This is BLOOD. This is NOTHING. Hello. Everything is nothing, and it's so cool to be ENLIGHTENED. Like me.

How can one become enlightened in one single moment? One can, because one is enlightened -- one just has to recognize the fact. It is not something that happens from the outside, it is something that arises from the inside. It has always been there but you were clouded, you were full of thoughts.

How enlightened is wearing God like some do Versace?

I always like to see enlightened parents like that; it gives me hope for the future.

I don't wanta hear all your word descriptions of words words words you made up all winter, man I wanta be enlightened by actions.

I can't think logically about who I am or where I am going. I have been very ecstatic, horribly depressed, shocked, elated, enlightened, and enervated.

I feel that what mathematics needs least are pundits who issue prescriptions or guidelines for presumably less enlightened mortals.

If I had to choose between a narrow-minded woman or a man who was an enlightened thinker, I would vote for the man.

If I'm okay with dying, my son is at least as enlightened as that. If I'm okay with my cancer, my son is at least as enlightened as I am.

Intelligent people know others. Enlightened people know themselves.

If there wasn't a way around the samskaras, no one would ever become enlightened.

If you can develop a connection, what we call an inner connection with the teacher, then it is not even necessary to be in the physical presence of the teacher, although it will always be stronger.

If you're meditating and it's easy, you're either enlightened or you're cheating.

I have been enlightened. I have fallen into poetry and it has swallowed me up.

I know that the blacks, take them half enlightened and ignorant, are more humane and merciful than the most enlightened and refined European that can be found in all the earth.

In order to do an empowerment, a person obviously has to be highly empowered, have the power, and also have the structural knowledge of how to transfer it to someone else.

If you meditate with a teacher who is enlightened, you can ride with them into stages of mind that are perhaps not available to you at this time.

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.

I own myself the friend to a very free system of commerce, and hold it as a truth, that commercial shackles are generally unjust, oppressive and impolitic - it is also a truth, that if industry and labour are left to take their own course, they will generally be directed to those objects which are the most productive, and this in a more certain and direct manner than the wisdom of the most enlightened legislature could point out.

It's very seldom that we see the good of the South. There is a perception that Southerners are racists and everyone else in the nation is 'enlightened.' There is racism everywhere, and there is good everywhere.

It is possible to wake up very quickly, to become enlightened, or you can do it gradually.

It is vain to say that enlightened statesmen will always be able to adjust their interests. Enlightened men will not always be at the helm.

It is incumbent upon the student to go to the teacher to learn.

It is our hope, that men in proportion as they grow more enlightened, will learn to hold their theories and their creeds more loosely, and will none the less, nay, rather all the more be devoted to the supreme end of practical righteousness to which all theories and creeds must be kept subservient.

It's only important to differentiate between patriotism and nationalism. I speak of enlightened patriotism.

I would define morality as enlightened self-interest...That old Platonic ideal that there are certain pure moral forms just isn't where we are.

Many people eat salad dutifully because they feel it is good for them, but more enlightened types eat it happily because it is good.

Most enlightened people can do miracles. Some have powers, some don't. Some people who have developed powers aren't enlightened.

Neither a space station nor an enlightened mind can be realized in a day.

Most teachers are not enlightened. Very few are. That doesn't mean they are not great teachers.

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.

No enlightened person would deny its premise, but as an ongoing program it is monotonous, limited, locked in a perception of victimization.

Nonresistance, nonjudgment, and nonattachment are the three aspects of true freedom and enlightened living.

No one on this earth attains enlightenment anymore without an enlightened master as a guide, unless that person was enlightened in many previous incarnations.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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