Enlightened Quotes

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There are few, I believe, in this enlightened age, who will not acknowledge that slavery as an institution is a moral and political evil.

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.

Women should not be enlightened or educated in any way. They should, in fact, be segregated as they are the cause of hideous and involuntary erections in holy men.

An enlightened ruler doesnot worry about people not knowing him; he worriesabout not knowing people.

In sorrow and suffering, go straight to God with confidence, and you will be strengthened, enlightened and instructed.

Nothing that results in human progress is achieved with unanimous consent. Those that are enlightened before the others are condemned to pursue that light in spite of the others.

If you think you’re enlightened go spend a week with your family.

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

A free, virtuous, and enlightened people must know full well the great principles and causes upon which their happiness depends.

Enlightened statesmen will not always be at the helm.

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

In dealing with those who share his bed, the enlightened ruler may enjoy their beauty but should not listen to their special pleas.

Only those who overflow with love will build the happy and enlightened world of the future.

If anyone thinks he can help you, he will inevitably mislead you, and the less phony he is; the more powerful he is, the more enlightened he is, the more misery and mischief he will create for you.

The mind of an enlightened human being is flexible and adaptable. The mind of the ignorant person is conditioned and fixed.

One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.

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

This dragonfly came up to me. He was hovering right in front of my face, and I was really examining him, thinking, How does he see me? I became enlightened.

If you see the illusion you are enlightened, but if you think that you are enlightened you are in the illusion!

Confused by thoughts, we experience duality in life. Unencumbered by ideas, the enlightened see the one Reality.

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

The Art of Peace begins with you.

Once you know yourself as a genuine seeker, and when your own inner chamber is quite enlightened, then comes the natural unfoldment of pure love and compassion and a genuine desire to serve others.

An educated, enlightened & informed population is one of the surest ways of promoting the health of a democracy

If you spent one-tenth of the time you devoted to distractions like chasing women or making money to spiritual practice, you would be enlightened in a few years.

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

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

There is strong shadow where there is much light.

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

If one were not animated with the desire to discover laws, they would escape the most enlightened attention.

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

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

May we be enlightened by a ray of the light that comes from Bethlehem, the light of He who is 'The Greatest' and made himself small.

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.

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

The most satisfied and enlightened people realize that successful and dynamic living starts from within. Before you can care for others, you must care for yourself.

Imagine that every person in the world is enlightened but you. They are all your teachers, each doing just the right things to help you learn perfect patience, perfect wisdom, perfect compassion.

And that may be [Helen Gurley] Brown’s most enlightened lesson: that sexual autonomy and fulfillment are inseparable from the autonomy and fulfillment that a woman gets from her career.

When it's cold, water freezes into ice; when it's warm, ice melts into water. Similarly, when you are confused, essence freezes into mind; when you are enlightened, mind melts into essence.

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

Illiteracy must be banished from the land if we shall attain that high destiny as the foremost of the enlightened nations of the world which, under Providence, we ought to achieve.

An ordinary man seeks freedom through enlightenment. An enlightened man expresses freedom through being ordinary.

If you vanquish ego-clinging today, tonight you will be enlightened.

We are most often in the dark when we are the most certain, and the most enlightened when we are the most confused.

Those who have not become enlightened will have to return to another, denser planet that is still involved with negativity, to work out their remaining karma.

Hanifs (Muslims) are stumbling, Christians all astray Jews wildered, Magians far on error’s way. We mortals are composed of two great schools Enlightened knaves or else religious fools.

Those who are enlightened never stop forging themselves.

Enlightenment is the "quiet acceptance of what is". I believe the truly enlightened beings are those who refuse to allow themselves to be distressed over things that simply are the way they are.

We hope the world will act in the spirit of enlightened self-interest.

We need to admit the mind into Christian fellowship again. We need the mind disciplined in Christ, enlightened by faith, passionate for God and his creation, to be let loose in the world.