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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.
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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
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Enlightened statesmen will not always be at the helm.
James Madison
Informed politicians will not perpetually be in charge.
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Positions are just a social construct that mean nothing to the enlightened man.
Manuel Neuer
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Without the instinct for adventure, any civilization, however enlightened; any state, however well-ordered, will wilt and wither.
Kurt Hahn
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Strictly speaking, there is no such thing as an enlightened person. There is only enlightened activity.
Shunryu Suzuki
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How can anybody be enlightened?
Truth is after all so poorly lit
Neil Peart
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We stumble and fall constantly, even when we are most enlightened.
Thomas Merton
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Reading nurtures the soul, and an enlightened friend brings it solace.
Voltaire
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An Enlightened Master is ideal only if your goal is to become a Benighted Slave.
Robert Anton Wilson
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Those who are enlightened never stop forging themselves.
Morihei Ueshiba
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It's possible to be completely enlightened... except with your family.
Chogyam Trungpa
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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
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Sexuality is one of the ways that we become enlightened, actually, because it leads us to self-knowledge.
Alice Walker
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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
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But, is it possible for princes and ministers to be enlightened, when private individuals are not so?
Jean-Baptiste Say
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Only a couple of times have I ever been to church and felt enlightened by it.
Lynn Johnston
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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
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The enlightened man is one with the law of causation.
Wumen Huikai
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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
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Self-interest, be it enlightened, works indirectly for the public good.
William H. Prescott
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Fill yourself with the power of wisdom and enlightenment.
Morihei Ueshiba
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If you're meditating and it's easy, you're either enlightened or you're cheating.
Dan Harris
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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
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Shambhala teachings say we all have the potential to accomplish our enlightened nature - our basic goodness.
Sakyong Mipham
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No enlightened person would deny its premise, but as an ongoing program it is monotonous, limited, locked in a perception of victimization.
Robert Brustein
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The Enlightenment has always aimed at liberating men from fear and establishing their sovereignty.
Yet the fully enlightened earth radiates disaster triumphant.
Theodor Adorno
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Just Detach From False Mental Objects And Be Enlightened To Being-As-Is
Baizhang Huaihai
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Hence the saying: The enlightened ruler lays his plans well ahead; the good general cultivates his resources.
Sun Tzu
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I have been enlightened. I have fallen into poetry and it has swallowed me up.
Keith Haring
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To be enlightened is to know that heaven is not "coming." Heaven is here.
Joan D. Chittister
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I think you're all enlightened, until you open your mouths.
Shunryu Suzuki
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There is nobody who is so enlightened that they don't need to work on themselves.
Terence McKenna
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The person who says, 'I'm enlightened' probably isn't.
Ram Dass
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We were enlightened people and we fell for this; why wouldn't Muslims fall for this?
Alfons Heck
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Every individual has the potentiality to become enlightened in the course of this life or later existences
Anagarika Govinda
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What a fine persecution—to be kept intrigued without ever quite being enlightened.
Tom Stoppard
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The enlightened ruler is heedful, and the good general full of caution.
Sun Tzu
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If you think you are enlightened; go home for Thanksgiving.
Ram Dass
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The condition of an enlightened mind is a surrendered heart.
Alan Redpath
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Until you are fully enlightened, you can never know what another person's reality is like for them.
Krishna Das
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A bore is someone who persists in holding his own views after we have enlightened him with ours.
Malcolm Forbes
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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
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The social and industrial structure of America is founded upon an enlightened citizenship.
Bainbridge Colby
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How enlightened is wearing God like some do Versace?
Vanna Bonta
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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