Enlightened Quotes

We stumble and fall constantly even when we are most enlightened. But when we are in true spiritual darkness, we do not even know that we have fallen.

It's possible to be completely enlightened... except with your family.

Let your eye be chaste, your hand faithful, your tongue truthful and your heart enlightened.

Figuring out our gifts in life is part of our journey to becoming enlightened human beings.

They are enlightened who join in this play knowing it as play, for people suffer only because they take as serious what the gods made for fun.

Intelligent people know others. Enlightened people know themselves.

Good karma leads to rebirth also. The desire for higher states of mind is a desire. When you are fixated on higher states of mind, you don't become enlightened.

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 doubting of wise men would be his greatest strength.

To be learned, add something each day. To be enlightened drop something each day.

If you sit with an enlightened teacher and silent your mind as they go into nirvana, suchness, the pure power of their aura will bring you on a journey into the world of perfection.

Enlightened people like Osho are ahead of their times. It is good that more and more young people are now reading his works.

Sexuality is one of the ways that we become enlightened, actually, because it leads us to self-knowledge.

I can't think logically about who I am or where I am going. I have been very ecstatic, horribly depressed, shocked, elated, enlightened, and enervated.

But, is it possible for princes and ministers to be enlightened, when private individuals are not so?

I believe that Gandhi’s views were the most enlightened of all the political men of our time.

The true grandeur of humanity is in moral elevation, sustained, enlightened and decorated by the intellect of man

There is nothing you need to do first in order to be enlightened.

There will never be a really free and enlightened state until the state comes to recognize the individual as a higher and independent power, from which all its own power and authority are derived.

Everybody wants to get enlightened but nobody wants to change.

It is vain to say that enlightened statesmen will always be able to adjust their interests. Enlightened men will not always be at the helm.

Only a couple of times have I ever been to church and felt enlightened by it.

He who knows himself is enlightened.

If the people were a little more ignorant, astrology would flourish - if a little more enlightened, religion would perish.

Art is a necessity - an essential part of our enlightenment process. We cannot, as a civilized society, regard ourselves as being enlightened without the arts.

If you're meditating and it's easy, you're either enlightened or you're cheating.

Those who know are wise. Those who know themselves are enlightened.

Self-interest, be it enlightened, works indirectly for the public good.

Shambhala teachings say we all have the potential to accomplish our enlightened nature - our basic goodness.

Enlightened Society is all about nurturing the human spirit - waking up to the goodness, kindness and strength that we already have.

Fill yourself with the power of wisdom and enlightenment.

The only enlightened masters I know are the people that I see every day and the people that I've seen through my life who have had the understanding, at some level, that we're here to express love.

No enlightened person would deny its premise, but as an ongoing program it is monotonous, limited, locked in a perception of victimization.

No matter how developed you are in any other area of your life, no matter what you say you believe, no matter how sophisticated or enlightened you think you are, how you eat tells all.

The Enlightenment has always aimed at liberating men from fear and establishing their sovereignty. Yet the fully enlightened earth radiates disaster triumphant.

Just Detach From False Mental Objects And Be Enlightened To Being-As-Is

The abstractness of modern art has to do with how much an enlightened mind rejects of the contemporary social order.

Morandi suggests we are all single in this world, hoping for independent repose. But our best opportunity for a community of excellence depends upon a collection of enlightened individuals.

Real knowledge never promoted either turbulence or unbelief; but its progress is the forerunner of liberality and enlightened toleration.

I understood that the will could not be improved before the mind had been enlightened.

Hence the saying: The enlightened ruler lays his plans well ahead; the good general cultivates his resources.

To be enlightened is to know that heaven is not "coming." Heaven is here.

There is nobody who is so enlightened that they don't need to work on themselves.

So there's only transcendence in the moment. Nobody can be transcended forever. That's why I say, "Who cares if you're enlightened forever?"

Although we all possess the seeds of great love and compassion, without the light of the enlightened one's wisdom and the waters of their compassion these seeds would never spout.

I think you're all enlightened, until you open your mouths.

Only listen to the observations of the enlightened because everyone else is self-centered, egocentric and bound by the net of desire.

Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility.

We were enlightened people and we fell for this; why wouldn't Muslims fall for this?

My commitment to the security and future of Israel is based upon basic morality as well as enlightened self-interest. Our role in supporting Israel honors our own heritage.

Abstain from all sinful, unwholesome actions, perform only pious wholesome ones, purify the mind; this is the teaching of enlightened ones