Enlightened Quotes · Page 3

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

— Shunryu Suzuki

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

— Scott Adams

To be enlightened means that you really don't change, and yet you're nothing but change.

— Frederick Lenz

“we experience that there lies deeply rooted within us Enlightened Consciousness,”

— Kaiten Nukariya

It is incumbent upon the student to go to the teacher to learn.

— Frederick Lenz

Those who are truly enlightened, are those whose souls are illuminated by love

— Anonymous

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

— Tenzin Palmo

“Vitarag’s [the enlightened one’s] 'water' (knowledge) will remove any kind of (karmic) 'stains'.”

— Dada Bhagwan

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

— Rajneesh

“The n'k did not want to be enlightened. They resented the truth as if it threatened them. In this respect, they are…

— Philip José Farmer

[I'm a conscious parent] when I stay away from fear-based control tactics - punishment, yelling and threats and I'm seeking more enlightened…

— Shefali Tsabary

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

— Pearl S. Buck

And therefore only the enlightened sovereign and the worthy general who are able to use the most intelligent people as agents are…

— Sun Tzu

We call it the transmission of the lamp in Zen. That's when we take enlightened states of mind and literally, you can…

— Frederick Lenz

I know no class of my fellowmen, however just, enlightened, and humane, which can be wisely and safely trusted absolutely with the…

— Frederick Douglass

As mankind becomes more enlightened to know their real interests, they will esteem the value of agriculture; they will find it in…

— Edmund Burke

If the minds of women were enlightened and improved, the domestic work would be more frequently refreshed by intelligent conversation, a means…

— Sarah Moore Grimke

For unnumbered centuries of human history the wilderness has given way. The priority of industry has become dogma. Are we as yet…

— Aldo Leopold

Whether a Buddha comes into the world or not, the nature of things is still the nature of things. The Buddha is…

— Tsoknyi Rinpoche

The most vital issue of the age is whether the future progress of humanity is to be governed by the modern economic…

— Sri Aurobindo

“As long as kashay’s (anger, pride, deceit, greed) do not go away, you have not attained God’s religion even a little bit.…

— Dada Bhagwan

How much longer are we going to think it necessary to be American before (or in contradistinction to) being cultivated, being enlightened,…

— Edith Wharton

... liberal intellectualstend to have a classical theory of politics, in which the state has a monopoly of power; hoping thatthose in…

— Susan Sontag

I lay very little stress either upon asking or giving advice. Generally speaking, they who ask advice know what they wish to…

— Wilhelm von Humboldt

Although all men are born free, slavery has been the general lot of the human race. Ignorant--they have been cheated; asleep--they have…

— James Madison

We have abundant reason to rejoice that in this Land the light of truth and reason has triumphed over the power of…

— George Washington

There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people will not feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine,…

— Marianne Williamson

Of all the animosities which have existed among mankind, those which are caused by a difference of sentiments in religion appear to…

— George Washington

The psychological dangers through which earlier generations were guided by the symbols and spiritual exercises of their mythological and religious inheritance, we…

— Joseph Campbell

Every church pretends to have found the exact truth. This is the end of progress. Why pursue that which you have? Why…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

Our attitude towards evil must be freed from hatred, and has itself need to be enlightened in character...Satan rejoices when he succeeds…

— Nikolai Berdyaev

The story of the Zen Master whose only response was always "Is that so?" shows the good that comes through inner nonresistance…

— Eckhart Tolle

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

— Laozi

Be prepared to be enlightened, enraged, amused, engaged, and above all provoked.

— Beatrix Campbell

This could never be a crime in any society which deems himself enlightened.

— Jack Kevorkian

Inexperience can be overcome, ignorance can be enlightened, but prejudice will destroy you.

— Mercedes Lackey

“Any type of desire is beggary. One who is without any desire is called ‘Gnani’ [the enlightened one].”

— Dada Bhagwan

“enlightened ones do not seek God. They seek only to destroy the faith of those who do.”

— Shulem Deen

“Hatred never ceases with hatred, but with love alone is healed.”

— T. Scott McLeod

It is possible to wake up very quickly, to become enlightened, or you can do it gradually.

— Frederick Lenz