I know no class of my fellowmen, however just, enlightened, and humane, which can be wisely and safely trusted absolutely with the… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
Anti-Semitism is a horrible disease from which nobody is immune, and it has a kind of evil fascination that makes an enlightened… — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
It is easy to imagine that the Buddha, the awakened one, is something or somewhere other than here or that awakening to… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
We live in an enlightened age, however, an age that has learned to see and to value other living things as they… — Robert Charles Wilson Copy Share Image
How can one become enlightened? One can, because one is enlightened - one just has to recognize the fact. — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
Personal power is the reflection of a person of knowledge. A person of knowledge, an enlightened person, a person even close to… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I would rather have as my patron a host of anonymous citizens digging into their own pockets for the price of a… — John Updike Copy Share Image
If you respect your teacher, you do better. Respect is only good because it will help you. Real liberated people, what can… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I was once like you, enlightened and "rational", I too scoffed at lovers, Now I am drunk, crazed, thin with misery. No… — Rumi Copy Share Image
Neither a space station nor an enlightened mind can be realized in a day. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If the minds of living beings are impure, their land is also impure, but if their minds are pure, so is their… — Nichiren Copy Share Image
Just Detach From False Mental Objects And Be Enlightened To Being-As-Is — Baizhang Huaihai Copy Share Image
We are formed and molded by our thoughts. Those whose minds are shaped by selfless thoughts give joy when they speak or… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
You have to do your own work; Enlightened Ones will only show the way. Those who practise meditation will free themselves from… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The very desire to seek spiritual enlightenment is in fact nothing but the grasping tendency of the ego itself, and thus the… — Ken Wilber Copy Share Image
It's a good idea to be in the physical presence of the enlightened teacher because it's not physical. You can hear the… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
No self-effort in the direction of enlightenment is ever wasted. Even if you don't become fully enlightened in a given lifetime, you… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
As much as I loved the model of St. Francis, I realized that I couldn't afford to be poor, because unlike St.… — Bo Sanchez Copy Share Image
The broad rich acres of our agricultural plains have been long preserved by nature to become her untrammeled gift to a people… — Grover Cleveland Copy Share Image
People enter states of consciousness where they think they've become enlightened. The best thing to do, if you've gone through one of… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I had a great teacher in India who said to me, 'If you think you're spiritual and evolved and enlightened, go home… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Socialism proposes no adequate substitute for the motive of enlightened selfishness that today is at the basis of all human labor and… — William Howard Taft Copy Share Image
Charm might be described as enlightened self-interest, a development of one's best self. ... In the simplest possible terms, I think genuine… — Arlene Francis Copy Share Image
