I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
We are more thoroughly an enlightened people, with respect to our political interests, than perhaps any other under heaven. Every man among… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
The teachings on love given by the Buddha are clear, scientific, and applicable... Love, compassion, joy, and equanimity are the very nature… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
The most enlightened people in the world embrace their full potential of light and dark. When you're with people who recognize and… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
An enlightened society is one where all people - the rich and the poor, the literate and the illiterate, the black and… — Pandurang Shastri Athavale Copy Share Image
“Enlightened Consciousness, or Buddha-nature, as we have seen in the previous chapter, is the mind of mind and the consciousness of consciousness,… — Kaiten Nukariya Copy Share Image
Personal power is a feeling that everybody is looking for called satisfaction. It is different from enlightenment, but you need personal power… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
When you look at belief in such things - as do you go to heaven, is there a devil - we have… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
As a society becomes more enlightened, it realizes that it is responsible not to transmit and conserve the whole of its existing… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
The influence of woman is the same everywhere. Her condition influences the morals, manners, and character of the people of all countries.… — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
Pain - has an Element of Blank It cannot recollect When it begun - or if there were a time when it… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
And only the enlightened can recall their former lives; for the rest of us, the memories of past existences are but glints… — Peter Matthiessen Copy Share Image
A man of true honor protects the unwritten word which binds his conscience more scrupulously, if possible, than he does the bond… — Grover Cleveland Copy Share Image
I turned to look into his face one last time. It was as if I could see the whole universe in his… — Christopher Pike Copy Share Image
...angels... are always being filled full of light, becoming ever more radiant and making blessed use of their natural ability to change.… — Gregory Palamas Copy Share Image
“Enlightened consciousness is often called Buddha-nature, as it is the real nature of Universal Spirit. Zen teachers compare it with a precious… — Kaiten Nukariya Copy Share Image
I ought to at least be able to read literature in French. I went to an enlightened grade school that started us… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
If we knew that god exists, such knowledge would make morality impossible. For, if we acted morally from fear or fright, or… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
Attitudes toward gays have shifted much like they have for animals. People have a hard time relating to those who are different… — Dan Mathews Copy Share Image
The Spirit is like the steady axis of a wheel. If our attention reaches the immovable firm axis at the very centre… — Nirmala Srivastava Copy Share Image
The workings of heaven are unfathomable-sometimes encouraging, sometimes suppressing. All this makes sport of heroes and tumbles the great. Enlightened people take… — Zicheng Hong Copy Share Image
We need to graduate from the ridiculous notion that greed is some kind of elixir for capitalism - it's the downfall of… — Patricia Aburdene Copy Share Image
Enlightened teachers get all sorts of assignments. Sometimes we end up in the higher astral; sometimes we end up in the realm… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Promote then as an object of primary importance, Institutions for the general diffusion of knowledge. In proportion as the structure of a… — George Washington Copy Share Image
An enlightened being comes into the world because they can help. They are off the wheel. They will experience different states of… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“What is the discovery of the Vitarags, the fully enlightened Ones? It is: ‘the slightest violence is the sign of losing. Even… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
There are only two forces that can withstand the force of the war's spirit when it seizes upon the world. The one… — Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence, Baroness Pethick-Lawrence Copy Share Image
Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Over the last thirty years or so, I have definitely become more enlightened about corners of the social spectrum that I had… — Steve Albini Copy Share Image
When you're enlightened, you don't have to reference other people, because you yourself are enlightened. And that's a better Earth. People can… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
It is our hope, that men in proportion as they grow more enlightened, will learn to hold their theories and their creeds… — Felix Adler Copy Share Image
Relaxation is the point. And if you can relax with an enlightened person his enlightenment will start penetrating you, because when you… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“I am no longer surprised by anything and I feel no distress at seeing my complete helplessness. On the contrary, I glory… — John Beevers Copy Share Image
“To be enlightened is always to be enlightened about something. I am enlightened about the fact that I am drinking a glass… — Thích Nhất Hạnh Copy Share Image
If one becomes enlightened, as I did in past incarnations, we leave the structural universes behind. We don't even have past incarnations… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The word "people" is unpleasant to me. The phrase "Soviet people" was drummed into us from childhood on. I love concrete people,… — Vladimir Sorokin Copy Share Image
“We’ (the Gnani Purush, the enlightened one) are by nature, non-interfering. If ‘we’, ourselves are non-interfering, then how can interfering people around… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
Enlightened legislation or enlightened social activity of whatever kind, does play into the hands of people with agendas of their own. If… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
“Religious controversies are always productive of more acrimony and irreconcilable hatreds than those which spring from any other cause. I had hoped… — George Washington Copy Share Image
The greatest events that have been spoken of by all the Holy Prophets will come along so naturally as the consequences of… — George Q. Cannon Copy Share Image
![“We’ (the Gnani Purush, the enlightened one) are by nature, non-interfering. If ‘we’, ourselves are non-interfering, then how can interfering people around ‘us’ can touch ‘us’? All interferences go away in ‘our’ [the Gnani’s] presence. What problems can the one that dwells in the Self [the Soul]…” quote by Dada Bhagwan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/493/dada-bhagwan-31_enlightened_we-the-gnani-purush-the-enlightened-one_2199725.jpg)
