Enlightened Quotes
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He who knows himself is enlightened.
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To truly be of service to others, we must first serve the server. The ability to bring an enlightened presence to those in need is the ability to light a candle without burning ourselves out.
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Imagine that every person in the world is enlightened but you. They are all your teachers, each doing just the right things to help you learn perfect patience, perfect wisdom, perfect compassion.
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Figuring out our gifts in life is part of our journey to becoming enlightened human beings.
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The part of me that is both a spiritual seeker and a social activist meet in this understanding of enlightened power coming from a deep, genuine well within each person.
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It's possible to be completely enlightened... except with your family.
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To become learned, each day add something. To become enlightened, each day drop something.
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I have been enlightened. I have fallen into poetry and it has swallowed me up.
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Just Detach From False Mental Objects And Be Enlightened To Being-As-Is
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Duly Enlightened Gandhi's head by Mall of the 'Free Press Journal,' Bombay, in 1932Watches may disagree, but let us not.
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Enlightened people like Osho are ahead of their times. It is good that more and more young people are now reading his works.
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You have to do your own work; Enlightened Ones will only show the way. Those who practise meditation will free themselves from the chains of death.
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Those who know are wise. Those who know themselves are enlightened.
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To know others is to have knowledge. To know yourself is to be enlightened.
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Christians make enlightened decisions, for they talk with God.
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We were enlightened people and we fell for this; why wouldn't Muslims fall for this?
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There are many diamonds in the world and if you lose your favorite, you can work hard, earn a lot of money and get another one to replace it. But the moments of your life aren't like that. Once they're gone, they'll never return. Each and every one is the most precious thing in existence. You can never meaningfully compare one moment with any other. You can never meaningfully compare your life with anyone else's. No matter how rich someone else may be, no matter how happy they look, no matter how enlightened they seem, they can never be you. Never, ever, ever. Only you can live your life.
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What a fine persecution—to be kept intrigued without ever quite being enlightened.
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... a person who is religiously enlightened appears to me to be one who has, to the best of his ability, liberated himself from the fetters of his selfish desires and is preoccupied with thoughts, feelings, and aspirations to which he clings because of their superpersonal value.
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Our enlightened posterity will look back upon us who eat oxen and sheep, just as we look upon cannibals.
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We have abundant reason to rejoice that in this Land the light of truth and reason has triumphed over the power of bigotry and superstition, and that every person may here worship God according to the dictates of his own heart. In this enlightened Age and in this Land of equal liberty it is our boast, that a man's religious tenets will not forfeit the protection of the Laws, nor deprive him of the right of attaining and holding the highest Offices that are known in the United States.
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But only he who, himself enlightened, is not afraid of shadows.
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O truth divine! enlightened by thy ray, I grope and guess no more, but see my way.
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Illiteracy must be banished from the land if we shall attain that high destiny as the foremost of the enlightened nations of the world which, under Providence, we ought to achieve.
