Enlightened Quotes

The Art of Peace begins with you...

— Morihei Ueshiba

What you think you become.

— Gautama Buddha

It's important to be enlightened.

— Damon Dash

Concentrate the mind on the present moment.

— Gautama Buddha

Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love.

— Gautama Buddha

Buddhism is all about secrets.

— Frederick Lenz

“Human is a suffered mind but an enlightened soul.”

— Santosh Kalwar

Hold infinity in the palm of your hand.

— William Blake

“The first step towards true enlightenment is to lighten up on yourself.”

— Bashar

“If all it took to become enlightened were to sit and meditate, then all frogs would be Buddhas.”

— Sengai

“Teach the ignorant. Study the wise. Avoid the foolish. Embrace the enlightened.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

“There is an enlightened way to flow with, in, and through conflict.”

— Bryant McGill

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

— Paulo Coelho

An individual has to be tenacious enough to become enlightened.

— Frederick Lenz

Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle. Happiness never decreases by being shared.

— Gautama Buddha

There is deception. People who think they are enlightened and it's just ego.

— Frederick Lenz

“Even the saints and the highly evolved beings do not know the ‘difference of the differences of the world’. Only an enlightened…

— Dada Bhagwan

And that may be [Helen Gurley] Brown’s most enlightened lesson: that sexual autonomy and fulfillment are inseparable from the autonomy and fulfillment…

— Judith Thurman

History teaches us that whenever a weak and ignorant people possess a thing which a strong and enlightened people want, it must…

— Mark Twain

There is obstruction. Enlightenment is not very popular in this world. History tells us that enlightened teachers who made themselves largely available…

— Frederick Lenz

If I'm okay with dying, my son is at least as enlightened as that. If I'm okay with my cancer, my son…

— Byron Katie

If we get above the individualized soul's journey, you will see that we are all one. We are all one light. In…

— Frederick Lenz

“The art of letting go, if mastered, may save us from our own suffering.” Excerpt From: Sarah Voldeng. “The Art of an…

— Sarah Voldeng

There will never be a really free and enlightened state until the state comes to recognize the individual as a higher and…

— Henry David Thoreau

Not even the apparently enlightened principle of the 'greatest good for the greatest number' can excuse indifference to individual suffering. There is…

— Aneurin Bevan

“Because of anger-pride-deceit-greed, selfishness [self-interest] remains and consequently one has no awareness of who dies or who takes birth. It is simply…

— Dada Bhagwan

I would rather a boy learnt in the roughest school the courage to hit a politician, or gained in the hardest school…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Women govern us; let us render them perfect: the more they are enlightened, so much the more shall we be. On the…

— Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Women must work doubly hard to overcome their conditioning in order to become enlightened. They must erase both conscious and unconscious ideas…

— Frederick Lenz

Instead of taking care to acquaint ourselves with others, we only think of making ourselves known to them. It would be better…

— Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable

There is, inside all our heads, the ego’s rabid attack dog. It is purely vicious toward others and toward ourselves as well.…

— Marianne Williamson

Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darkness's of other people. One does not become enlightened by…

— Carl Jung

If the various groups in America had been less selfish and had permitted different representatives from the groups to travel into foreign…

— Malcolm X

The policy of the emperors and the senate, as far as it concerned religion, was happily seconded by the reflections of the…

— Edward Gibbon

Those who are truly enlightened, those whose souls are illuminated by love, have been able to overcome all of the inhibitions and…

— Paulo Coelho

A woman should keep her separateness, should save all her feminine qualities and purify them. In this way she is going, according…

— Rajneesh

The idea that Christianity is basically a religion of moral improvement... has its roots in the liberal Protestantism of the late nineteenth…

— Alister E. McGrath

I regret exceedingly that the disputes between the protestants and Roman Catholics should be carried to the serious alarming height mentioned in…

— George Washington

Let's say Twitter existed during the Civil War. We would have a better understanding of people in the Confederacy who were against…

— Chuck Klosterman

The fundamental concept of optimum nutrition heralds an entire new paradigm in medicine, no less important than that of Louis Pasteur's discovery…

— Patrick Holford