Enlightened Quotes - Page 27

• Roddenberry had his own utopian vision about he perfectibility of man, and I never really believed that. And I don’t think the show demonstrates that. I think it is about gunboat diplomacy. In the final analysis, the Enterprise fires. They’re always shooting and bringing civilization, and coming to worlds where they don’t approve of tyrannical enterprises – no pun intended – and they substitute their own quote unquote enlightened version of how society is supposed to work, which is essentially American.

  Nicholas Meyer

  Men, Thinking, Fire

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• Hanifs (Muslims) are stumbling, Christians all astray
  Jews wildered, Magians far on error’s way.
  We mortals are composed of two great schools
  Enlightened knaves or else religious fools.

  Al-Maʿarri

  Christian, Religious, School

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• Because the pernicious opposition by Satan continues, the continuous enlightened guidance of the Holy Ghost is absolutely essential.

  Keith K. Hilbig

  Essentials, Ghost, Satan

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• Reality is all-encompassing: the absolute nature is one. Although we may feel separate from the original uncreated reality - whether we call it 'God,' 'peak experience,' or 'enlightened mind' - through awareness we can contact this essential part of ourselves.

  Tarthang Tulku

  Reality, Mind, May

  Tarthang Tulku (1981). “Hidden mind of freedom”, Dharma Pub

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• A bore is someone who persists in holding his own views after we have enlightened him with ours.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Views, Boredom, Bores

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• There are beings who come into this world, from time to time, not simply with miraculous powers, which we call the siddhas, but with a miraculous awareness that is so strong yet so subtle that anyone or anything that touches that awareness is transformed forever.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Strong, Forever

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• Human beings have illusions. The enlightened don't have illusions. They see things as they are, and in that seeing, they see ecstasy and joy. They see the play of life.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Play, Joy

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• No one on this earth attains enlightenment anymore without an enlightened master as a guide, unless that person was enlightened in many previous incarnations.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Enlightenment, Earth

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

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• To encounter such a being is considered the ultimate karmic blessing in the sense that your life will be so configured that every single variant problematic karma will surface, which means you have the opportunity of passing through them all correctly, going over the ocean of the samsara and reaching nirvana yourself.

  Frederick Lenz

  Karma, Teacher, Ocean

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• An enlightened teacher has personal power. Sitting and meditating with an enlightened teacher in a meditation hall or at a power spot can change you forever.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Buddhism, Meditation

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• True teachers of enlightenment are hard to find. The popular ones, of course, usually aren't enlightened because how could they be? They just tell people what they want to hear.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, People, Enlightenment

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• It will be worthy of a free, enlightened, and, at no distant period, a great nation, to give to mankind the magnanimous and too novel example of a people always guided by an exalted justice and benevolence.

  George Washington

  Justice, People, Giving

  George Washington, John Jay, Jared Sparks (1850). “Washington's Farewell Address to the People of the United States of America”, p.38, New York : J. Wiley

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• A person who wants to progress more rapidly and wishes to overcome unhappiness sooner, should try to find an enlightened master.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Wish, Progress

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

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• Advanced Teachers always forgive. It is inevitable that anyone who seek knowledge and power will make many mistakes.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Mistake, Knowledge And Power

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• A real enlightened teacher is intense and they could care less what you think about anything at any time since you are lost in illusions.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Real, Thinking

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• Good teachers are not known for telling you what you want to hear, and consequently they're rarely popular because they tend to offend people on a regular basis by their mere presence on earth.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, People, Want

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• If one becomes enlightened, as I did in past incarnations, we leave the structural universes behind. We don't even have past incarnations because the form that had those incarnations has dissolved into the clear light of reality.

  Frederick Lenz

  Past, Reality, Light

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• They just teach by their presence. They don't really have a message for humanity. It's irrelevant at that point. They're just a fluid, perfect embodiment of what we call the dharmakaya or the enlightenment of nirvana .

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Perfect, Humanity

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• The teacher is not a person; they're a field of energy. They're a series of levels of attention. While they have a body and appear to be there, they're not.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Fields, Energy

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• An enlightened master is a perpetual source of the cosmic light because his mind is always merged with nirvana.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Light, Mind

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

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• If you ever want to study acting you should be around an enlightened person for a while, because all they do is play roles, since they no longer have a self.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Play, Self

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• If you are a student of an enlightened master, you can literally tap into his aura, anywhere and at anytime. All you have to do is meditate on your Buddhist master and the light will come into your mind.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Buddhist, Light

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

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• Who cares if you're enlightened forever? Can you just get it in this moment, now?

  Byron Katie

  Spiritual, Forever, Who Cares

  Interview with Sunny Massad, realization.org. May 16, 2017.

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• Almost anyone can see the golden light in an enlightened master's aura when the master meditates, unless, of course, the person is blocked up psychically.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Light, Auras

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

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• When you find a teacher, you devote your time and energy to what they believe in. You surrender not them but to the infinite, which operates through them.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Believe, Energy

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