Enlightened Quotes

• Enlightened leadership is spiritual if we understand spirituality not as some kind of religious dogma or ideology but as the domain of awareness where we experience values like truth, goodness, beauty, love and compassion, and also intuition, creativity, insight and focused attention.

  Deepak Chopra

  Leadership, Spiritual, Religious

  "Deepak Chopra On Enlightened Leadership". Interview with Forbes, www.forbes.com. January 12, 2011.

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• To know yourself as the Being underneath the thinker, the stillness underneath the mental noise, the love and joy underneath the pain, is freedom, salvation, enlightenment.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Pain, Joy, Enlightenment

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.154, New World Library

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• It is our hope, that men in proportion as they grow more enlightened, will learn to hold their theories and their creeds more loosely, and will none the less, nay, rather all the more be devoted to the supreme end of practical righteousness to which all theories and creeds must be kept subservient.

  Felix Adler

  Men, Theory, Ends

  Felix Adler (1904). “New statement of the aim of the ethical culture societies”

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• However many holy words you read, However many you speak, What good will they do you If you do not act on upon them?

  Gautama Buddha

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Wise

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• The greatness of America lies not in being more enlightened than any other nation, but rather in her ability to repair her faults.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Lying, Greatness, America

  "Democracy in America". Book by Alexis de Tocqueville. Chapter XIII, 1835.

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• Ignorance has always been the weapon of tyrants; enlightenment the salvation of the free.

  Bill Richardson

  Ignorance, Tyrants, Enlightenment

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It is paradoxical, yet true, to say, that the more we know, the more ignorant we become in the absolute sense, for it is only through enlightenment that we become conscious of our limitations. Precisely one of the most gratifying results of intellectual evolution is the continuous opening up of new and greater prospects.

  Nikola Tesla

  Opening Up, Intellectual, Ignorant

  Nikola Tesla, Neil Thomas (2017). “Nikola Tesla: 100 Quotes on Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and Success”, Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

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• The Art of Peace begins with you.

  Morihei Ueshiba

  Art, Enlightenment

  Morihei Ueshiba, John Stevens (2010). “The Art of Peace”, p.3, Shambhala Publications

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• There is nothing so disobedient as an undisciplined mind, and there is nothing so obedient as a disciplined mind.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Inspiration, Meditation And Yoga

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• Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.

  Gautama Buddha

  Life, Wisdom, Spiritual

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• To conquer oneself is a greater task than conquering others.

  Gautama Buddha

  Positive, Peace, Buddhist

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• There is no enlightenment outside of daily life.

  Nhat Hanh

  Perspective, Enlightenment, Mindfulness

  Joseph Emet, Thich Nhat Hanh (2015). “Mindfulness Meditation: For a Quieter Mind, Self-Awareness and Healthy Living”, p.4, Souvenir Press

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• This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.

  Dalai Lama

  Inspirational, Uplifting, Spiritual

  "The Dalai Lama, A Policy of Kindness: An Anthology by and about the Dalai Lama" edited by Sidney Piburn, (p.52), 1990.

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• We stumble and fall constantly, even when we are most enlightened.

  Thomas Merton

  Courage, Fall

  Thomas Merton (2011). “Thoughts In Solitude”, p.53, Macmillan

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• In less enlightened times, the best way to impress women was to own a hot car. But women wised up and realized it was better to buy their own hot cars so they wouldn't have to ride around with jerks.

  Scott Adams

  Car, Hot, Way

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• Enlightenment is the key to everything, and it is the key to intimacy, because it is the goal of true authenticity.

  Marianne Williamson

  Love, Inspirational, Forgiveness

  Interview with Ken Page, www.psychologytoday.com. January 22, 2012.

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• We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.

  T. S. Eliot

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

  Four Quartets "Little Gidding" pt. 5 (1942)

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• All wrong-doing arises because of mind. If mind is transformed can wrong-doing remain?

  Gautama Buddha

  Positive, Inspiring, Wise

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

  Charles Sumner

  Men, Humanity, Civil War

  Charles Sumner (1850). “Orations and Speeches [1845-1850]”, p.122

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• There are many paths to enlightenment. Be sure to take the one with a heart.

  Laozi

  Inspiring, Heart, Enlightenment

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• I wish to say to you that the life of an enlightened people and a vibrant nation cannot be measured by the life of an individual. A successful person is one who manages to lay down a new stone, a brick that would help firm up his nation's existence.

  King Hussein I

  Successful, People, Wish

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• Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.

  Dalai Lama

  Inspirational, Motivational, Inspiring

  "Weekly Meditations for Healthy Sex (Jan. 25-31)" by Alexandra Katehakis, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 25, 2013.

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• I have been further enlightened by the conversation and correspondence of some illustrious Italians, whom I would gladly name, were I not afraid of exposing them to danger.

  Edmond Francois Valentin About

  Talking, Names, Danger

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• It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways.

  Gautama Buddha

  Motivational, Positive, Inspiring

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

  Johann Heinrich Lambert

  Mind, Understood

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