Enlightened Quotes - Page 21

• I think the most harmful belief passed on to me - not always directly - was the belief that whatever I did as a Negro, however much we Negroes achieved, despite the presence of some enlightened whites, white society as a whole enjoyed being racists in the secret core of their being and would never, ever give that up.

  Margo Jefferson

  Thinking, White, Giving

  Source: www.elle.com

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• I am a firm believer that one way to become enlightened is to be so relaxed, as relaxed as you possibly can be.

  Alanis Morissette

  Way, Believer, Firm

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. May 25, 2013.

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• Surely all Americans have the right to give their money only to those causes which they support. But what kind of society has this created? A society where the ignorant reign. A society where enlightened must hold their tongues. A nation whose politicians must profess half-hearted devotion to an ancient fable or face the disastrous consequences of speaking their true mind.

  Christopher McCandless

  Giving, Support, Ignorant

  The Emory Wheel student newspaper, October 1987.

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• A man of true honor protects the unwritten word which binds his conscience more scrupulously, if possible, than he does the bond a breach of which subjects him to legal liabilities, and the United States, in aiming to maintain itself as one of the most enlightened nations, would do its citizens gross injustice if it applied to its international relations any other than a high standard of honor and morality.

  Grover Cleveland

  Men, Honor, Citizens

  "A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents 1789-1897". Book by James D. Richardson, 1896-1899.

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• Prophecy, that universal and perpetual torch by which faith is enlightened.

  Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire

  Torches, Prophecy, Universal

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• But these dear boys and girls--there is, something to be made out of them. If now they yield themselves to Christ they may have a long, happy, and holy day before them in which they may serve God with all then hearts. Who knows what glory God may have of them? Heathen lands may call them blessed. Whole nations may be enlightened by them. O brethren and sisters, let us estimate children at their true valuation, and we shall not keep them back, but we shall be eager to lead them to Jesus at once.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Girl, Jesus, Children

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• Conversion is not, as some suppose, a violent opening of the heart by grace, in which will, reason and judgment are all ignored or crushed. The season is not blinded, but enlightened; and the whole man is made to act with a glorious liberty which it never knew till it fell under the restraints of grace.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Heart, Men, Grace

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• If the various groups in America had been less selfish and had permitted different representatives from the groups to travel into foreign countries, and broaden their own scope, and come back and educate the movements they represented, not only would this have made the groups to which they belonged more enlightened and more worldly in the international sense, but it also would have given the independent African states abroad a better understanding of the groups in the United States, and what they stand for, what they represent.

  Malcolm X

  Country, Selfish, Independent

  Source: www.panafricanperspective.com

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• People get very deep experiences and they think they're enlightened. That's not enlightenment, that's just some realization.

  Tenzin Palmo

  Thinking, People, Enlightenment

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• It's only when all the dust is completely gone from the mirror, and there is only mirror, no dust, that we're really enlightened. So that's a lot of work.

  Tenzin Palmo

  Mirrors, Dust, Gone

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• God, possessing supreme and infinite wisdom, acts in the most perfect manner, not only metaphysically, but also morally speaking, and ... with respect to ourselves, we can say that the more enlightened and informed we are about God's works, the more we will be disposed to find them excellent and in complete conformity with what we might have desired.

  Gottfried Leibniz

  Perfect, Might, Conformity

  Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (2015). “Leibniz: Philosophical Essays”, p.35, Hackett Publishing

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• If you see the illusion you are enlightened, but if you think that you are enlightened you are in the illusion!

  H. W. L. Poonja

  Thinking, Enlightenment, Illusion

  H. W. L. Poonja, Prashanti De Jager (2000). “The Truth Is”, p.210, Weiser Books

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• It can be helpful to remember that the enlightened mind and the ordinary mind are two sides of the same coin. The mind is like the sea, which can be rough on the surface, with mountainous waves stirred up by ferocious wind, but calm and peaceful at the bottom. Sometimes we can catch sight of this peaceful mind even in times of trouble. These glimpses of peace show us that we may have more inner resources to draw upon than we had realized. With skill and patience, we can learn how to be in touch with our peaceful selves.

  Tulku Thondup

  Life Changing, Sight, Self

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• It is confidently expected that the period is at hand, when man, through ignorance, shall not much longer inflict unnecessary misery on man; because the mass of mankind will become enlightened, and will clearly discern that by so acting they will inevitably create misery to themselves.

  Robert Owen

  Ignorance, Men, Hands

  Robert Owen (1837). “First American from the third London edition”, p.76

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• While the scientist, on the one hand, is concerned with giving a faithful description of facts, on the other, he has the equally important task of construing them in relation to some explanatory conjecture. Similarly the historian has a double duty: both of reporting the past as nearly as possible as it passed or was lived through by men at the time (without doctoring up events to fit later developments or some more "enlightened reading" of them); and second, of interpreting their import in the light of a present hypothesis.

  Marie Taylor Collins Swabey

  Reading, Science, Past

  Marie Taylor Collins Swabey (1954). “The judgment of history”

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• Awakening is not a state but a process: an ethical way of life and commitment that enables human flourishing. As such, it is no longer the exclusive preserve of enlightened teachers or accomplished yogis. Likewise, nirvana-the stopping of craving-is not the goal of the path but its very source. For human flourishing first stirs in that clear, bright, empty space where neurotic self-centredness realizes that it has no ground at all to stand on. One is then freed to pour forth like sunlight.

  Stephen Batchelor

  Teacher, Commitment, Self

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• The Christian church, in its attitude toward science, shows the mind of a more or less enlightened man of the Thirteenth Century. It no longer believes that the earth is flat, but it is still convinced that prayer can cure after medicine fails.

  H. L. Mencken

  Christian, Prayer, Attitude

  H.L. Mencken (2013). “Minority Report”, p.312, Knopf

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• At times your entire body tingles with ecstasy as you feel the waves of psychic energy that emanate from the master's aura touching your own body.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Psychics, Touching

  Frederick Lenz (1994). “Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap”, Interglobal Seminars

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• Enlightened social engineering is required to face situations that demand global action now.

  John Goodlad

  Engineering, Demand, Faces

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• Enlightened teachers and people who help them, have a lot of trouble. People try to interfere with the work and spread awful rumors about you.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, People, Rumor

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• There is a great difference between feeding parties to wild beasts and stirring up their finer feelings in an inquisition. One is the system of degraded barbarians, the other of enlightened civilized people.

  Mark Twain

  Party, Civilization, Differences

  Mark Twain (1869). “The Innocents Abroad: or, The New Pilgrims' Progress”, p.275

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• Civilization largely consists in hiding human nature. When the barbarian learns to hide it we account him enlightened.

  Mark Twain

  Civilization, Barbarians, Human Nature

  Mark Twain (1972). “Everyone's Mark Twain”

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• If I say, if I talk about, 'I want to be enlightened...' it implies a future. And there isn't any.

  Byron Katie

  Future, Reality, Want

  Interview with Sunny Massad, realization.org. October 23, 2001.

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

  Sakyong Mipham

  Kindness, Wake Up, Waking

  Sakyong Mipham (2013). “The Shambhala Principle: Discovering Humanity's Hidden Treasure”, p.34, Harmony

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• I hope you will attain enlightenment. I am here to tell you that you already have! But you don't know... The difference between the Buddha and us is the confidence in knowing that he was enlightened.

  Sakyong Mipham

  Differences, Knowing, Enlightenment

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