Enlightened Quotes - Page 29

• You can’t change the mind with the mind alone, or we’d all be enlightened

  Wendy Palmer

  Philosophy, Medicine, Mind

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• Yes I say that I am enlightened. What does that mean? It means I live in a condition of light...There really is no primary self anymore.

  Frederick Lenz

  Mean, Light, Self

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• Becoming enlightened doesn't mean everything works your way.

  Frederick Lenz

  Mean, Enlightenment, Way

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• The world of enlightenment, and that which creates enlightenment, is much different than what most people would think. Most people have Hallmark Card descriptions of what creates enlightenment. And if their descriptions were correct, then everyone who is in religious practice would be enlightened.

  Frederick Lenz

  Religious, Thinking, Practice

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• It's possible to be completely enlightened... except with your family.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Our Family

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• It's a very complicated matter to become enlightened. If it happens to a person without a teacher in this lifetime, you can bet their boots, they've had about a thousand teachers in their last thousand lives because it's a very complicated thing to do.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Enlightenment, Boots

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• Even my desire to become free or enlightened is just another craving for fulfillment or completion in the future. So don’t seek to become free or desire or “achieve” enlightenment. Become present.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Desire, Enlightenment, Achieve

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.31, New World Library

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• Be enlightened for you, just for you. No one else knows or cares. They crucified Christ, you know. They don't take real well, on this planet, to the people who see things differently.

  Frederick Lenz

  Real, People, Enlightenment

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• One of the great dangers on the spiritual path is that the ego becomes spiritualized. The ego loves to think of itself as spiritually evolved. It is just another way that it manages to feel important and in control. It is very difficult to free yourself from an enlightened ego.

  Leonard Jacobson

  Spiritual, Thinking, Ego

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• God and the Gay Christian is a game changer. Prepare to be challenged and enlightened, provoked and inspired.

  Rachel Held Evans

  Christian, Gay, Games

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• Positions are just a social construct that mean nothing to the enlightened man.

  Manuel Neuer

  Mean, Men, Social

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• Those who have not become enlightened will have to return to another, denser planet that is still involved with negativity, to work out their remaining karma.

  Dolores Cannon

  Karma, Work Out, Negativity

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• It is important to monitor your mind constantly. This is particularly important if you are studying with an enlightened teacher, because you are absorbing tremendous power from the teacher.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Mind, Important

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• Enlightened beings are rare in the universe. They are the joker in the deck. They are outside the circle.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Circles, Deck

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• A teacher is really invaluable. A teacher will instruct you in how to stabilize your energy field, increase it, and decrease the loss of energy in your life and how to be balanced, wise, and funny.

  Frederick Lenz

  Wise, Teacher, Loss

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• An enlightened being comes into the world because they can help. They are off the wheel. They will experience different states of mind. They will suffer. They will know joy. But ultimately, they are free of all that.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Joy, Mind

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• To see someone manifest all the astral lights, to be surrounded by light, to have light emanating from their body, pulsing waves of gold light - this is the miracle of enlightenment.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Light, Miracle

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• If you sit with an enlightened teacher and silent your mind as they go into nirvana, suchness, the pure power of their aura will bring you on a journey into the world of perfection.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Journey, Perfection

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• Miracles have a purpose. Miracles help people believe in enlightenment. The real miracle is the transformation of consciousness from limitation and pain to enlightenment and ecstasy.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Pain, Real

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• Some people see teachers and they associate the feelings of the other students who are present with the teacher. They psychically connect with all those hundreds of minds and they don't key to the teacher at all.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Keys, People

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• No one can bring you into higher states of attention permanently. I can take an individual and i can change their awareness. That's easy. But how long will it last?

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Long, Attention

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• There are some teachers who just perform miracles. They can manifest things from the other world into this world. They have siddha powers. They are not necessarily enlightened.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Other Worlds, Miracle

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• Enlightened teachers are not logical. They don't function from levels that are understandable to the human mind. They're not religious. Religions form around them, usually after they've died.

  Frederick Lenz

  Religious, Teacher, Mind

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• So too, monks, I saw the ancient path, the ancient road traveled by the Perfectly Enlightened Ones of the past. And what is that ancient path, that ancient road? It is just this Noble Eightfold Path; that is, right view, right intention, right speech, right action, right livelihood, right effort, right mindfulness, right concentration.

  Gautama Buddha

  Past, Views, Effort

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• People come to a teacher to learn self-discovery. A teacher who just wants to keep you on a string forever, the god-guru concept, a teacher like that is very abusive. Those people are actually usually taking their students energy.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Discovery, Self

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