Enlightened Quotes - Page 17

• Innumerable Buddhas Enlightened... innumerable Christs crucified... always the same Christ, the same Buddha!

  Frederick Franck

  Christ

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• Personal power is the reflection of a person of knowledge. A person of knowledge, an enlightened person, a person even close to enlightenment, has a great deal of personal power.

  Frederick Lenz

  Reflection, Enlightenment, Gaining Power

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• Benevolent, enlightened, wise dictators are the most efficient form of government. The problem is what comes afterwards.

  Reid Hoffman

  Wise, Government, Problem

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The puritanism of Christianity has played havoc with the moderation that an enlightened and tolerant critical spirit would have produced. I've noticed that in whatever country, county, town, or other region there is a regulation enjoining temperance, the population seems to be entirely composed of teetotallers and drunkards. There's a Bible on that shelf there. But I keep it next to Voltaire - poison and antidote.

  Bertrand Russell

  Country, Next, Towns

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• An enlightened person or business is not concerned primarily with making money, because when you are concerned with making money you want the future more than the present. Whenever you want the future more than you want the present, true intelligence cannot flow into what you do, because it can do so only when you are totally aligned with the present moment.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Want, Flow, Making Money

  Source: rayhemachandra.com

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• The difference between you, if you consider yourself not enlightened, and an enlightened master is not that the enlightened master has more knowledge. University professors have knowledge, and many enlightened masters have very little knowledge. Jesus probably had less knowledge than any university professor alive today in terms of raw information. Even a relatively uneducated person has more information than Jesus or Buddha ever had about things, such as political things and so on.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Jesus, University Professors, Differences

  Source: rayhemachandra.com

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

  Bahá'u'lláh

  Heart, Eye, Hands

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• In every artistic activity a new world is created, the cosmos, a world enlightened and free.

  Nikolai Berdyaev

  Cosmos, World, Artistic

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• We need to admit the mind into Christian fellowship again. We need the mind disciplined in Christ, enlightened by faith, passionate for God and his creation, to be let loose in the world.

  J.P. Moreland

  Christian, Mind, Needs

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• I have found on Alpha that those from an essentially enlightened background feel at home with the parts of the course which appeal to the mind, but often have difficulty in experiencing the Holy Spirit. Others coming from the New Age movement find that rational and historical explanations leave them cold, but at the weekend away they are on more familiar territory in experiencing the Holy Spirit

  Nicky Gumbel

  Home, Weekend, Historical

  Nicky Gumbel (2004). “How to Run the Alpha Course Telling Others”

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• And so I came to understand why some masters sometimes say, "You are already enlightened."

  Eckhart Tolle

  Sometimes, Masters

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• Meditation makes you innocent, it makes you childlike. In that state, miracles are possible. That state is pure magic. A great transformation happens - in innocence you transcend the mind, and to transcend the mind is to become the Awakened One, the Enlightened One.

  Rajneesh

  Meditation, Miracle, Magic

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• Truly enlightened people never seek to be like others. Rather, they seek to be superior to their former selves.

  Robin Sharma

  Self, People, Former

  Robin Sharma (2003). “The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari: A Fable About Fulfilling Your Dreams & Reaching Your Destiny”, p.117, Jaico Publishing House

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• The teachings on love given by the Buddha are clear, scientific, and applicable... Love, compassion, joy, and equanimity are the very nature of an enlightened person. They are the four aspects of true love within ourselves and within everyone and everything.

  Nhat Hanh

  Teaching, Compassion, Joy

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• In the middle of this despair [of postwar Germany], my family learned about The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and the healing message of the restored gospel of Jesus Christ. This message made all the difference; it lifted us above our daily misery. Life was still thorny and the circumstances still horrible, but the gospel brought light, hope, and joy into our lives. The plain and simple truths of the gospel warmed our hearts and enlightened our minds. They helped us look at ourselves and the world around us with different eyes and from an elevated viewpoint.

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  Jesus, Eye, Healing

  "Have We Not Reason to Rejoice?". Dieter F. Uchtdorf's priesthood session address at the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Salt Lake City, Utah, www.lds.org. November 2007.

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• You do not need to do anything first to be enlightened.

  Thaddeus Golas

  Needs, Firsts

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• Enlightened groups can exist, as long as the individuals' sense of identity is not derived from a mentally defined image of us.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Long, Identity, Groups

  Source: rayhemachandra.com

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• I came to California in 1970 and so many people were asking if I was a Buddhist or knew Zen theory, asking if I was enlightened already or not. So I said, "Yes, I am enlightened," and then I studied quickly to catch up.

  Hiroshi Sugimoto

  Buddhist, California, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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

  Sakyong Mipham

  Teaching, Goodness, Accomplish

  "Earth Protector: An Interview with Sakyong Mipham (complete interview)". Interview with Ray Hemachandra, rayhemachandra.com. July 30, 2015.

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• To know others is to have knowledge. To know yourself is to be enlightened.

  Laozi

  Know Yourself, Knows

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• There exists in the world today, and has existed for thousands of years, a body of enlightened humans united in what might be termed, an Order of the Quest. It is composed of those whose intellectual and spiritual perceptions have revealed to them that civilisation has a secret Destiny... The outcome of this 'secret destiny' is a World Order ruled by a king with supernatural powers[the antichrist]. This king was descended of a divine race; that is, he belonged to the Order of the Illumined; for those who come to a state of wisdom then belong to a family of heroes-perfected human beings.

  Manly Hall

  Spiritual, Kings, Hero

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• There can be associations - enlightened businesses, for example - that do not work on the basis of us against them or wanting profit as the main motivating force behind what they do.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Example, Association, Profit

  Source: rayhemachandra.com

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• And therefore only the enlightened sovereign and the worthy general who are able to use the most intelligent people as agents are certain to achieve great things.

  Sun Tzu

  Intelligent, People, Use

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• Without the instinct for adventure, any civilization, however enlightened; any state, however well-ordered, will wilt and wither.

  Kurt Hahn

  Adventure, Civilization, Instinct

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• 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.

  Sylvia Plath

  Thinking, Who I Am, Ecstatic

  Sylvia Plath, Aurelia Schober Plath (1975). “Letters home: correspondence, 1950-1963”, HarperCollins Publishers

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