Until you are fully enlightened, you can never know what another person's reality is like for them. — Krishna Das Copy Share Image
Democracy, disciplined and enlightened, is the finest thing in the world. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Strictly speaking, there are no enlightened people, there is only enlightened activity. — Shunryu Suzuki Copy Share Image
“be enlightened, and they will understand what the hope of your calling is. I believe your word, and I know that you… — Rali Macaulay Copy Share Image
By keeping the Commandments the soul is purified and the mind too is enlightened, and starts to function as nature intended it… — Dorotheus of Gaza Copy Share Image
An enlightened teacher is able to put a tremendous amount of power through a person who seeks knowledge and escalates the evolution… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Sexuality is one of the ways that we become enlightened, actually, because it leads us to self-knowledge. — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
As a teacher you just look at someone and you transmit to them what they need to know. Not simply a thought… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Democracy disciplined and enlightened is the finest thing in the world. A democracy prejudiced, ignorant, superstitious, will land itself in chaos and… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
When enlightened people are so poor that they cannot help others, if they speak a word to awaken the confused or to… — Zicheng Hong Copy Share Image
There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you…As we are liberated from our fear, our… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
To study the Way is to study the Self. To study the Self is to forget the self. To forget the self… — Dogen Copy Share Image
To be enlightened is to be aware, always, of total reality in its immanent otherness - to be aware of it and… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
I want to engage people in an honest, enlightened, and provocative conversation about the nature of erotic desire and the intricacies of… — Esther Perel Copy Share Image
If it is permitted to the enlightened but baffled Statesman, when deserted and fallen from his place, to appeal from the voices… — James Martineau Copy Share Image
How dangerous it is rashly to adopt the Mosaical institutions [Old Testament teachings of eye for an eye]. Laws might have been… — Gerald Heaney Copy Share Image
In the wake of her indispensable textbook, Janet Burroway now offers a splendid and concise guide to the thorny task of revision.… — Margot Livesey Copy Share Image
The grand principles of virtue and honor, however they may be distorted by arbitrary codes, are the same the world over: and… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“How can one go from good [auspicious state] to pure (state)? There are no words for it. It will happen when the… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
Liberty without discipline cannot survive. Without order and authority in the spirit of man the free way of life leads through weakness,… — Walter Lippmann 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
Civilization just takes it as a given that the whole world was flooding. Then science came and you had geology and modern… — Neil deGrasse Tyson 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
But we are pledged to set the world free. Our toil must be in silence, and our efforts all in secret. For… — Bram Stoker Copy Share Image
To become enlightened is not just to slip into some disconnected euphoria, an oceanic feeling of mystic oneness apart from ordinary reality.… — Robert Thurman Copy Share Image
A virtuous man or woman who is determined to develop the Supreme Enlightened Mind, should thus develop it: I have to lead… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Sometimes I come across a tree which seems like Buddha or Jesus: loving, compassionate, still, unambitious, enlightened, in eternal meditation, giving pleasure… — Satish Kumar Copy Share Image
Illiteracy must be banished from the land if we shall attain that high destiny as the foremost of the enlightened nations of… — William McKinley Copy Share Image
How do you become enlightened? Have fun, meditate, don't take yourself too seriously, brush between incarnations and have a good teacher. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
An enlightened teacher teaches you how to gain power. They give you power. They teach you how to shape it so that… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
If one were not animated with the desire to discover laws, they would escape the most enlightened attention. — Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac Copy Share Image
“On what basis did the vitrags (the enlightened ones) see the world as flawless? On the basis that everyone is dependent on… — Dada Bhagwan 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
When it's cold, water freezes into ice; when it's warm, ice melts into water. Similarly, when you are confused, essence freezes into… — Muso Soseki Copy Share Image
It takes quite a bit of time to become enlightened. But it really is not so different from learning any other art;… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Once in a while an enlightened teacher goes out into the world and spreads the dharma. They attract some attention, and it… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“He had enlightened Marius by chance and without being aware of the fact, as does a candle which some one brings; he… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“It is Vitaraag vignan [the Spiritual Science of the Enlightened Ones] to look at gain, and to see losses is the knowledge… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
Duty itself is supreme delight when love is the inducement and labor. By such a principle the ignorant are enlightened, the hard-hearted… — Hosea Ballou Copy Share Image