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Enlightened Quotes

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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.
Zoroaster

Explore the loftiest aspirations with an open-minded attitude. Grasp the most progressive concepts. Subsequently, each individual should make their own decision.
Authors on Enlightened Quotes: Frederick Lenz Morihei Ueshiba Eckhart Tolle Ram Dass Shunryu Suzuki James Madison Laozi Marianne Williamson Sun Tzu Alanis Morissette Henry David Thoreau K. R. Narayanan Thaddeus Golas Veronique Vienne Beatrix Campbell Laurie Colwin Robert Dale Owen Alfons Heck Johann Heinrich Lambert Baizhang Huaihai Immanuel Kant Tom Stoppard Anagarika Govinda Frederick Franck Maharishi Mahesh Yogi Voltaire Rajneesh Krishna Das Ajahn Chah Keith Haring Stephen King William H. Prescott John Adams
2.
Do not try to become anything. Do not make yourself into anything. Do not be a meditator. Do not become enlightened. When you sit, let it be. What you walk, let it be. Grasp at nothing. Resist nothing.
Ajahn Chah

3.
Enlightened statesmen will not always be at the helm.
James Madison

Informed politicians will not perpetually be in charge.
4.
Positions are just a social construct that mean nothing to the enlightened man.
Manuel Neuer

5.
Without the instinct for adventure, any civilization, however enlightened; any state, however well-ordered, will wilt and wither.
Kurt Hahn

6.
The Art of Peace begins with you.
Morihei Ueshiba

7.
Strictly speaking, there is no such thing as an enlightened person. There is only enlightened activity.
Shunryu Suzuki

8.
How can anybody be enlightened? Truth is after all so poorly lit
Neil Peart

9.
We stumble and fall constantly, even when we are most enlightened.
Thomas Merton

10.
Reading nurtures the soul, and an enlightened friend brings it solace.
Voltaire

11.
An Enlightened Master is ideal only if your goal is to become a Benighted Slave.
Robert Anton Wilson

12.
Those who are enlightened never stop forging themselves.
Morihei Ueshiba

13.
It's possible to be completely enlightened... except with your family.
Chogyam Trungpa

14.
To be learned, add something each day. To be enlightened drop something each day.
Laozi

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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.
Sylvia Plath

16.
Enlightened people like Osho are ahead of their times. It is good that more and more young people are now reading his works.
K. R. Narayanan

17.
Sexuality is one of the ways that we become enlightened, actually, because it leads us to self-knowledge.
Alice Walker

18.
But, is it possible for princes and ministers to be enlightened, when private individuals are not so?
Jean-Baptiste Say

19.
There will never be a really free and enlightened state until the state comes to recognize the individual as a higher and independent power, from which all its own power and authority are derived.
Henry David Thoreau

20.
Only a couple of times have I ever been to church and felt enlightened by it.
Lynn Johnston

21.
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.
James Madison

22.
The enlightened man is one with the law of causation.
Wumen Huikai

23.
Cannibals? Who is not a cannibal? I tell you it will be more tolerable for the Fejee that salted down a lean missionary in his cellar against a coming famine; it will be more tolerable for that provident Fejee, I say, in the day of judgement, than for thee, civilized and enlightened gourmand, who nailest geese to the ground and feastest on their bloated livers in thy pate de fois gras.
Herman Melville

24.
Shambhala teachings say we all have the potential to accomplish our enlightened nature - our basic goodness.
Sakyong Mipham

25.
Self-interest, be it enlightened, works indirectly for the public good.
William H. Prescott

26.
Fill yourself with the power of wisdom and enlightenment.
Morihei Ueshiba

27.
If you're meditating and it's easy, you're either enlightened or you're cheating.
Dan Harris

28.
The Enlightenment has always aimed at liberating men from fear and establishing their sovereignty.
Yet the fully enlightened earth radiates disaster triumphant.
Theodor Adorno

29.
Just Detach From False Mental Objects And Be Enlightened To Being-As-Is
Baizhang Huaihai

30.
No enlightened person would deny its premise, but as an ongoing program it is monotonous, limited, locked in a perception of victimization.
Robert Brustein

31.
To be enlightened is to know that heaven is not "coming." Heaven is here.
Joan D. Chittister

32.
I think you're all enlightened, until you open your mouths.
Shunryu Suzuki

33.
There is nobody who is so enlightened that they don't need to work on themselves.
Terence McKenna

34.
Hence the saying: The enlightened ruler lays his plans well ahead; the good general cultivates his resources.
Sun Tzu

35.
I have been enlightened. I have fallen into poetry and it has swallowed me up.
Keith Haring

36.
I understood that the will could not be improved before the mind had been enlightened.
Johann Heinrich Lambert

37.
To be enlightened is to know oneself and not run away.
Veronique Vienne

38.
We were enlightened people and we fell for this; why wouldn't Muslims fall for this?
Alfons Heck

39.
Every individual has the potentiality to become enlightened in the course of this life or later existences
Anagarika Govinda

40.
The person who says, 'I'm enlightened' probably isn't.
Ram Dass

41.
The condition of an enlightened mind is a surrendered heart.
Alan Redpath

42.
Until you are fully enlightened, you can never know what another person's reality is like for them.
Krishna Das

43.
A bore is someone who persists in holding his own views after we have enlightened him with ours.
Malcolm Forbes

44.
Many people eat salad dutifully because they feel it is good for them, but more enlightened types eat it happily because it is good.
Laurie Colwin

45.
What a fine persecution—to be kept intrigued without ever quite being enlightened.
Tom Stoppard

46.
The enlightened ruler is heedful, and the good general full of caution.
Sun Tzu

47.
If you think you are enlightened; go home for Thanksgiving.
Ram Dass

48.
How enlightened is wearing God like some do Versace?
Vanna Bonta

49.
It is within your power at this very moment not only to consumate an act of enlightened statesmanship, but, as the instrument of the Almighty, to restore to freedom a race of men.
Robert Dale Owen

50.
I have been further enlightened by the conversation and correspondence of some illustrious Italians, whom I would gladly name, were I not afraid of exposing them to danger.
Edmond Francois Valentin About