Christmas time - an Enlightened Teacher came into the world, taught, and died. His message was simple: Forgive. While the human beings… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
We do not have to be ashamed of what we are. As sentient beings we have wonderful backgrounds. These backgrounds may not… — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
[T]he more clamour we make about 'the women's point of view', the more we rub it into people that the women's point… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
Regardless of the importance of known evidence to the contrary, the arts are generally regarded as being so much entertaining fluff, a… — Ken Danby Copy Share Image
“One has to understand the line of demarcation between the Self and the Non-Self from Gnani Purush (the enlightened one). His explanation… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
Those who seek liberation for themselves alone cannot become fully enlightened. Though it may be said that one who is not already… — Muso Soseki Copy Share Image
The world of enlightenment, and that which creates enlightenment, is much different than what most people would think. Most people have Hallmark… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
It didn't take long for the world to realize that the Shah was an enlightened liberal next to the bloody reactionary regime… — Alexander Haig Copy Share Image
The question of perpetual copyright is, in my judgement, entitled to the full and favorable consideration of the Congress of an enlightened… — Florence Earle Coates Copy Share Image
Now, of course, architecture is a blind spot of our life in America today. How many millions of students go to the… — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image
Shakespeare, with an improved education and in a more enlightened age, might easily have attained the purity and correction of Racine; but… — Horace Walpole Copy Share Image
I'm inspired every day by the great captains of industry and enlightened entrepreneurs like my great-great-grandfather and founder of Fiat, Giovanni Agnelli,… — Lapo Elkann Copy Share Image
Convinced that the people are the only safe depositories of their own liberty, and that they are not safe unless enlightened to… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Shambhala vision is universal. It has no bias towards one type of culture or group. It is not ethnocentric and does not… — Sakyong Mipham Copy Share Image
He who stands on tiptoe is not steady. He who strides cannot maintain the pace. He who makes a show is not… — Laozi Copy Share Image
Let the rain of unhappy and tragic experiences fall, as sometimes it inevitably must, even in the lives of the enlightened masters.… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
A person is disposed to an act of choice by an angel ... in two ways. Sometimes, a man's understanding is enlightened… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
I would like to live to see the time when the men and woman of God - holy, separated and spiritually enlightened… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
Man cannot be enlightened through any organization, creed, dogma, priest or ritual, nor through any philosophical knowledge or psychological technique. He has… — Radhanath Swami Copy Share Image
I have always regard nonalignment as a statement that India's policies, foreign policy will be guided by what I describe as enlightened… — Manmohan Singh Copy Share Image
Men and women are not free to love decently until they have analyzed themselves completely and swept away every mystery from sex;… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
The great tragedy is that they're removing art completely, not because they're putting more science in, but because they can't afford the… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Shankara commented on Krishna, on the Upanishads, on the Brahma Sutras. Ramanuja commented on the ancient enlightened people, Vallabha did the same.… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Ramakrishna didn't suddenly become enlightened. We had years of him meditating, seeking, crying to Mother Kali, going in and out of samadhi;… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I consist of body and soul - in the worlds of a child. And why shouldn't we speak like children? But the… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
When you are but slightly involved in the world, the effect the world has on you is also slight. When you are… — Zicheng Hong Copy Share Image
Strictly speaking, "you" cannot become enlightened, because who you take yourself to be is like a ripple in the ocean of consciousness… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
We walk, and our religion is shown even to the dullest and most insensitive person in how we walk. Or to put… — Reginald Horace Blyth Copy Share Image
Meditation is nothing but putting the mind aside, putting the mind out of the way, and bringing a witnessing which is always… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“When enlightened souls come in contact with ignorant people like you, they have to speak in YOUR language, because you are not… — Ramana Pemmaraju Copy Share Image
I think [imagination] very austere element of Buddhism is also linked with a strong antinatalist strain in the philosophy. The Buddha was… — Quentin S. Crisp 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
“These, of course, are far more enlightened times, when it is only acceptable to believe that not being a Christian is likely… — Peter David Copy Share Image
When I was working at Omega, I took this Zen retreat, where you're quiet, you don't say anything for a week, and… — Larkin Grimm Copy Share Image
We want no dictatorship of physicists, as physicists. If our democracy is to realize its full promise, we want no dictatorship at… — Jerome Frank Copy Share Image
My dog doesn't worry about the meaning of life. She may worry if she doesn't get her breakfast, but she doesn't sit… — Joko Beck Copy Share Image
“Gnani’s [The enlightened one’s] sangna [directions] is the compass then it will take you to the end of your journey [Moksha, ultimate… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
As the world has to attain the fulfilment of eternal life, to me it does not in the least matter what I… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Up and down the the still sparsely settled coast of British North America, groups of men-intellectuals and farmers, scholars and merchants, the… — Bernard Bailyn Copy Share Image
People go to mediums and they get in touch with spirits outside of the body. Most of these spirits are pretty malevolent… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
![“[T]he more clamour we make about 'the women's point of view', the more we rub it into people that the women's point of view is different, and frankly I do not think it is -- at least in my job. The line I always want to take is, that there is the 'point of view' of the reasonably enlightened human…” quote by Dorothy L. Sayers](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/748/dorothy-l-sayers-738_aspect_t-he-more-clamour-we-make-about-the-wome_2585409.jpg)
![“I think [imagination] very austere element of Buddhism is also linked with a strong antinatalist strain in the philosophy. The Buddha was enlightened when he destroyed the house of body and soul into which he would otherwise have been forever reborn. This is clearly antinatalism.” quote by Quentin S. Crisp](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/b03/quentin-s-crisp-4149_body_i-think-imagination-very-austere-element_1631590.jpg)
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