Enlightened Quotes

630 Enlightened quotes by 307 unique authors

I refuse to believe that Hendrix had the last possessed hand, that Joplin had the last drunken throat, that Morrison had the last enlightened mind. — Patti Smith
If you think you’re enlightened go spend a week with your family. — Ram Dass
They've got something they do it with, I think it's called a mocracy, and it means everyone in the whole country can say who the… — Terry Pratchett
If you think you are enlightened; go home for Thanksgiving. — Ram Dass
If our well-being depends upon the interaction between events in our brains and events in the world, and there are better and worse ways to… — Sam Harris
To be enlightened is to be aware, always, of total reality in its immanent otherness - to be aware of it and yet remain in… — Aldous Huxley
Inexperience can be overcome, ignorance can be enlightened, but prejudice will destroy you. — Mercedes Lackey
We do not have to be ashamed of what we are. As sentient beings we have wonderful backgrounds. These backgrounds may not be particularly enlightened… — Chogyam Trungpa
Our toil must be in silence, and our efforts all in secret; for this enlightened age, when men believe not even what they see, the… — Bram Stoker
There is no coming to consciousness without pain. People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own Soul. One… — Carl Jung
Pain - has an Element of Blank It cannot recollect When it begun - or if there were a time when it was not -… — Emily Dickinson
[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… — Dorothy L. Sayers
Eating, drinking, dying - three primary manifestations of the universal and impersonal life. Animals live that impersonal and universal life without knowing its nature. Ordinary… — Aldous Huxley
Those who are truly enlightened, those whose souls are illuminated by love, have been able to overcome all of the inhibitions and preconceptions of their… — Paulo Coelho
For the anointed, traditions are likely to be seen as the dead hand of the past, relics of a less enlightened age, and not as… — Thomas Sowell
There is, inside all our heads, the ego’s rabid attack dog. It is purely vicious toward others and toward ourselves as well. Learning to control… — Marianne Williamson
In the short term, corporal punishment may produce obedience. But it is a fact documented by research that in the long term the results are… — Alice Miller
No occupation is more worthy of an intelligent and enlightened mind, than the study of Nature and natural objects; and whether we labour to investigate… — Joseph Paxton
I hear that in many places something has happened to Christmas; that it is changing from a time of merriment and carefree gaiety to a… — Unknown Author
The women of this country ought be enlightened in regard to the laws under which they live, that they may no longer publish their degradation… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton
In the East a man becomes divine only when he is no longer jealous, a man is thought to be enlightened only when he is… — Rajneesh
Real knowledge never promoted either turbulence or unbelief; but its progress is the forerunner of liberality and enlightened toleration. — Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux
Because the relationship between self and world is reciprocal, it is not a matter of first getting enlightened or saved and then acting. As we… — Joanna Macy
Of all the animosities which have existed among mankind, those which are caused by a difference of sentiments in religion appear to be the most… — George Washington
In sorrow and suffering, go straight to God with confidence, and you will be strengthened, enlightened and instructed. — John of the Cross

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