Enlightened Quotes - Page 13

• Occasionally, in each age and in different lands, a Buddha is born, that is to say, an enlightened person...they re-codify the ways, the practices, they make changes that are just intelligent changes that adapt to a new century, a new culture.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhist, Intelligent, Land

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• Even enlightened despots don't make very good teachers.

  Marilyn Wallace

  Teacher, Very Good, Despots

  Marilyn Wallace (1992). “So Shall You Reap”, Bantam Dell Publishing Group

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• It's nice if you love a liberated person, and you should, because they love you. They're lovable. They're children playing in a very, very unusual world filled with vortexes of dancing darkness and light.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Children, Nice

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• There is no slight danger from general ignorance; and the only choice which Providence has graciously left to a vicious government is either to fall by the people, if they are suffered to become enlightened, or with them, if they are kept enslaved and ignorant.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Fall, Ignorance, Government

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1867). “The Friend: a series of essays ... First American, from the second London edition”, p.40

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• 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.

  James Madison

  Men, Able, Vain

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• The perfectly natural thing to do with an unreadable book is to give it away; and the publication, for more than a quarter of a century, of volumes which fulfilled this one purpose and no other is a pleasant proof, if proof were needed, of the business principles which underlay the enlightened activity of publishers.

  Agnes Repplier

  Book, Giving, Principles

  Agnes Repplier (1908). “A Happy Half-century: And Other Essays”

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• An enlightened person does not ignore things and does not stick to things, not even to the truth.

  Shunryu Suzuki

  Truth, Enlightenment, Doe

  Shunryu Suzuki, Mel Weitsman, Michael Wenger (1999). “Branching Streams Flow in the Darkness: Zen Talks on the Sandokai”, p.53, Univ of California Press

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• There have been errors in the administration of the most enlightened men.

  Edward Law, 1st Earl of Ellenborough

  Men, Errors, Administration

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• Commercial concerns have expanded from family business to corporate wealth which is self-perpetuating and which enlightened statesmen and economists now dread as the most potent oligarchy yet produced.

  Helen Keller

  Business, Self, Oligarchy

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• As I have already said, the belief that one's own view of reality is the only reality is the most dangerous or all delusions. It becomes still more dangerous if it is coupled with the missionary zeal to enlighten the rest of the world, whether the rest of the world wishes to be enlightened or not. To refuse to embrace wholeheartedly a particular definition of reality, to dare to see the world differently can become a "think crime" in a truly Orwellian sense as we get steadily closer to 1984.

  Paul Watzlawick

  Reality, Thinking, Views

  Paul Watzlawick (1977). “How real is real?: Confusion, disinformation, communication”, Vintage

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• Never for a moment believe that the great body of the citizens of any State or States can deliberately intend to do wrong. They may, under the influence of temporary excitement or misguided opinions, commit mistakes; they may be misled for a time by the suggestions of self-interest; but in a community so enlightened and patriotic as the people of the United States argument will soon make them sensible of their errors, and when convinced they will be ready to repair them.

  Andrew Jackson

  Mistake, Believe, Patriotic

  John Stilwell Jenkins, Andrew Jackson (2011). “Life and Public Services of Gen. Andrew Jackson, Seventh President of the United States: Including the Most Important of His State Papers”, p.353, New Leaf Publishing Group

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• Simply because you can perform feats of power does not mean you are, in the classical sense, fully enlightened. It means that you have mastered a few aspects of the mystical kundalini. That's all it means.

  Frederick Lenz

  Mean, Buddhism, Doe

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• People go to mediums and they get in touch with spirits outside of the body. Most of these spirits are pretty malevolent and unenlightened, although they often claim to be enlightened teachers who are disincarnate. These low-vibe beings seek life-force.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Buddhism, People

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• Nothing is born of nothing, least of all knowledge, modernity, or enlightened thought; progress is made in tiny surges, in successive laps, like an endless relay race. But there are links without which nothing would be passed on, and for that reason, they deserve the gratitude of all who benefited from them.

  Amin Maalouf

  Gratitude, Race, Progress

  Amin Maalouf (2008). “Origins: A Memoir”, p.412, Macmillan

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• Rendering thanks to my Creator for my existence and station among His works, for my birth in a country enlightened by the Gospel and enjoying freedom, and for all His other kindnesses, to Him I resign myself, humbly confiding in His goodness and in His mercy through Jesus Christ for the events of eternity.

  John Dickinson

  Country, Jesus, Kindness

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• Over the last thirty years or so, I have definitely become more enlightened about corners of the social spectrum that I had less exposure to as a young man. I've interacted with more poor people, more minorities and more sexual minorities. As you get more people from different backgrounds involved in your life, you get a broader perspective and you're less cavalier about your opinions.

  Steve Albini

  Men, Perspective, People

  Source: thequietus.com

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• People are given a false alternative: the choice between an unenlightened belief and an enlightened unbelief. Most intellectuals seem to pay homage to the second variant.

  Eugen Drewermann

  People, Choices, Alternatives

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• And in the general hardening of outlook that set in ... practices which had been long abandoned ... -- imprisonment without trial, the use of war prisoners as slaves, public executions, torture to extract confessions, the use of hostages and the deportation of whole populations -- not only became common again, but were tolerated and even defended by people who considered themselves enlightened and progressive.

  George Orwell

  War, Practice, Long

  George Orwell (2003). “1984”, Plume Books

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• People don't even recognize who the Founding Fathers of the United States were. They were exceptional human beings - when you signed the Declaration of Independence, that was a death warrant they signed their name to. You have to have courage to put your name on a death warrant against the most powerful nation in the world at that time. And yet, we didn't honor who they really were. They were deists. They lived an enlightened belief system.

  Bruce H. Lipton

  Powerful, Father, People

  Source: lotusguide.com

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• There is no ground whatever for the claim, so often made by religious apologists, that these ideals are specifically Christian and originated with Jesus. What were specifically Christian were some of the less enlightened teachings, which have done untold harm. Christians claim that organised Christianity has been a great force for good, but this view can be maintained on one assumption only: that everything good in the Christian era is a result of Christianity and everything bad happened in spite of it.

  Margaret E. Knight

  Christian, Religious, Jesus

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• There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people will not feel insecure around you.

  Marianne Williamson

  Insecure, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• My parents were hippies. They met at an ashram, where they were studying how to be enlightened.

  Paulo Costanzo

  Hippie, Parent, Study

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• I lay very little stress either upon asking or giving advice. Generally speaking, they who ask advice know what they wish to do, and remain firm to their intentions. A man may allow himself to be enlightened on various points, even upon matters of expediency and duty; but, after all, he must determine his course of action, for himself.

  Wilhelm von Humboldt

  Stress, Men, Giving

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• I'd met so many enlightened spiritual teachers that it became a challenge to select one. I believed in the oneness of spirituality - unconditional love for God, and unconditional compassion for the beings of this world - but I also understood that unless I chose a particular path, I couldn't focus and take blessings from teachers that would allow me to have deep realizations and spiritual experiences.

  Radhanath Swami

  Spiritual, Teacher, Unconditional Love

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• An enlightened citizen is an indispensable ingredient of the infrastructure of
  democracy.

  Barbara

  Democracy, Citizens, Ingredients

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