Enlightened Quotes

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.

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.

Enlightened statesmen will not always be at the helm.

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

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

The Art of Peace begins with you.

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

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

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

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

An Enlightened Master is ideal only if your goal is to become a Benighted Slave.

Those who are enlightened never stop forging themselves.

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

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

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

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

But, is it possible for princes and ministers to be enlightened, when private individuals are not so?

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.

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.

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

The enlightened man is one with the law of causation.

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.

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.

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

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

Fill yourself with the power of wisdom and enlightenment.

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

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

Just Detach From False Mental Objects And Be Enlightened To Being-As-Is

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

To be enlightened is to know that heaven is not "coming." Heaven is here.

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

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

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

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

I understood that the will could not be improved before the mind had been enlightened.

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

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

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

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

The condition of an enlightened mind is a surrendered heart.

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

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

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

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

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

If you think you are enlightened; go home for Thanksgiving.

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.

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.

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