Enlightened Quotes

Very few people become enlightened in any given lifetime. On the planet earth their might be a dozen who are fully enlightened and several thousand who live in enlightened states of mind.

If even one woman in the West were to become enlightened, it would change karmas on this planet.

The world has never had a greater need for enlightened women and men.

Meditation erases conditioning. It allows a person to channel the kundalini energy through their subtle physical body and reach enlightened states of awareness.

You have to do your own work; Enlightened Ones will only show the way. Those who practise meditation will free themselves from the chains of death

I have no doubt that the government of this great nation will work with its people to lead New Orleans and the Gulf Coast back to an enlightened, proud, safe part of the world.

Republic of the West, Enlightened, free, sublime, Unquestionably best Production of our time.

Buddha called himself 'The Enlightened One' and Jesus called himself 'The Son of God'. To me the term 'World-Teacher' is of as little importance as 'The Son of God' or 'The Enlightened One'.

The world grows more enlightened. Knowledge is more equally diffused.

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.

To know others is to have knowledge. To know yourself is to be enlightened.

I'm very encouraged. This is progress. There are two or three ways to combat homophobia - one is through humor. The second is to put a face on it. People are becoming much more enlightened.

The bourgeoisie are the only people who want to help me. The enlightened bourgeoisie are the only ones who ever buy anything, look after it, and don't ask for a discount. They want to look after you.

The Enlightened one has told you in never-to-be-forgotten words that this little span of life is but a passing shadow, a fleeting thing.

Duly Enlightened Gandhi's head by Mall of the 'Free Press Journal,' Bombay, in 1932Watches may disagree, but let us not.

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

Even enlightened despots don't make very good teachers.

As a child there was no place for adventure or experimentation. I guess that kind of freedom started in high school with punk rock. That's what enlightened me to not being afraid to express myself.

Christians make enlightened decisions, for they talk with God.

Civilization largely consists in hiding human nature. When the barbarian learns to hide it we account him enlightened.

History teaches us that whenever a weak and ignorant people possess a thing which a strong and enlightened people want, it must be yielded up peaceably.

It is you who are choosing, in any moment, to be happy or choosing to be sad, or choosing to be angry, or forgiving, or enlightened, or whatever. You are choosing.

In every artistic activity a new world is created, the cosmos, a world enlightened and free.

The entire truth about everything can be known through your vibratory awareness. And this vibratory awareness comes to you through your attention, which is enlightened by your Spirit.

After realization, the attention becomes enlightened.

Success is when the whole gets enlightened. When you become one with the whole, that's the real success.

One has to understand that we have to become a higher personality which is the spirit, which is the truth, which is the enlightened attention, and which is the joy.

If only we could be enlightened enough to be able to listen in the silence.

My parents were hippies. They met at an ashram, where they were studying how to be enlightened.

For our democracy has been marred by imperialism, and it has been enlightened only by individual and sporadic efforts at freedom.

How can one become enlightened? One can, because one is enlightened - one just has to recognize the fact.

If you want to see how enlightened you are, go spend a week with your family.

Benevolent, enlightened, wise dictators are the most efficient form of government. The problem is what comes afterwards.

Truly enlightened people never seek to be like others. Rather, they seek to be superior to their former selves.

I once read that people who study others are wise but those who study themselves are enlightened.

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.

The kind who live for music and are constantly seeking it out, anywhere they can. Who can't imagine a life without it. They're enlightened.

In less enlightened times, the best way to impress women was to own a hot car.

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

People get very deep experiences and they think they're enlightened. That's not enlightenment, that's just some realization.

It's only when all the dust is completely gone from the mirror, and there is only mirror, no dust, that we're really enlightened. So that's a lot of work.

To be completely enlightened means that you're a Buddha.I don't speak of enlightenment.

You think you're enlightened. But as my lama said, when you realize the intrinsic nature of the mind, then you start to meditate. It's not the end, it's the beginning.

To be enlightened doesn't mean you end up stupefied and unable to function.

You do not need to do anything first to be enlightened.

The objective tendency of the Enlightenment, to wipe out the power of images over man, is not matched by any subjective progress on the part of enlightened thinking towards freedom from images.

Not everyone who is enlightened by an angel knows that he is enlightened by him.

He who, in an enlightened and literary society, aspires to be a great poet, must first become a little child.

Understanding is by the flame of the passions never enlightened, but dazzled.

This ball of liberty, I believe most piously, is now so well in motion that it will roll round the globe. at least the enlightened part of it, for light & liberty go together.