Enlightened Quotes - Page 34

• You are god. To be conscious of that not just from the point of view of the human form, to be endless and beginningless perfect being, is to be enlightened.

  Frederick Lenz

  God, Views, Perfect

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• While people who are enlightened are worthy of respect, to put them on a pedestal is a mistake. To undervalue them is also a mistake.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Mistake, People

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• There is always a certain amount of 'transmission loss.' You can have a power generator and if the power is going on 100 miles away, even with very efficient cable there could be a certain amount of loss.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Loss, Miles

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• If it is permitted to the enlightened but baffled Statesman, when deserted and fallen from his place, to appeal from the voices of the moment to the judgment of more impartial times, with what right can we call in question the loftier form of the same prophetic trust which looks to a present God rather than to future men?

  James Martineau

  Men, Voice, Looks

  "Hours of Thought on Sacred Things". Book by James Martineau, p. 190, 1879.

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• The part of me that is both a spiritual seeker and a social activist meet in this understanding of enlightened power coming from a deep, genuine well within each person.

  Elizabeth Lesser

  Spiritual, Understanding, Social

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• Not even the apparently enlightened principle of the 'greatest good for the greatest number' can excuse indifference to individual suffering. There is no test for progress other than its impact on the individual.

  Aneurin Bevan

  Impact, Numbers, Suffering

  David A. Reisman, Aneurin Bevan (1996). “In Place of Fear”, Pickering & Chatto Publishers

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• Focusing on an enlightened teacher is a doorway. It is not a person. We are focusing on the light that passes through them. We are moving through them into the planes of light and eventually to nirvana.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Moving, Light

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• Ramakrishna didn't suddenly become enlightened. We had years of him meditating, seeking, crying to Mother Kali, going in and out of samadhi; but after many years of this process, he was enlightened. He was no longer a finite individual.

  Frederick Lenz

  Mother, Years, Kali

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• If you are with a fully enlightened being, a jivan mukta, liberated soul, the quality of light is so clear, that you don't really know that it is there until later.

  Frederick Lenz

  Light, Soul, Quality

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• Nobody symbol occurred to me one night at my grandmother's house. The eyes are an inversion of X'd out eyes - the man is enlightened. His teeth are clenched. It's not a smiley face. It's right before he dies. It plays into my philosophy where everybody gets enlightened before they die.

  Willis Earl Beal

  Philosophy, Eye, Night

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I always had an existential crisis, trying to figure out ‘what does it all mean?’ I came to the conclusion that if we can advance the knowledge of the world, if we can expand the scope and scale of consciousness, then, we’re better able to ask the right questions and become more enlightened. That’s the only way to move forward.

  Elon Musk

  Moving, Mean, Trying

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• I'm so blessed to have such enlightened parents. It must have been very hard to watch their able-bodied son lock himself up in his old room for most of his 20s.

  A. Scott Berg

  Blessed, Son, Parent

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• Confused by thoughts, we experience duality in life. Unencumbered by ideas, the enlightened see the one Reality.

  Huineng

  Confused, Reality, Ideas

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• Understanding is by the flame of the passions never enlightened, but dazzled.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Passion, Flames, Understanding

  Thomas Hobbes (2013). “Leviathan”, p.145, Simon and Schuster

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• The essence of spirituality does not consist in a specialised or narrow interest in some imagined part of life, but in a certain enlightened attitude to all the various situations which obtain in life. It covers and includes the whole of life. All the material things of this world can be made subservient to the divine game, and when they are thus subordained they become auxiliary to the self-affirmation of the spirit.

  Meher Baba

  Attitude, Self, Essence

  "Discourses, Volume I". Book by Meher Baba, 1967.

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• Some paradox of our natures leads us, when once we have made our fellow men the objects of our enlightened interest, to go on to make them the objects of our pity , then of our wisdom , ultimately of our coercion.

  Lionel Trilling

  Men, Goes On, Fellow Man

  Lionel Trilling (2012). “The Liberal Imagination”, p.221, New York Review of Books

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• If we get above the individualized soul's journey, you will see that we are all one. We are all one light. In that sense, we are all enlightened.

  Frederick Lenz

  Journey, Light, Soul

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• The reason you study with a teacher is primarily for the empowerments, for someone who is enlightened to transfer power to you. What is most important is that the student uses that power intelligently and wisely.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Empowerment, Important

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• Democracy alone, of all forms of government, enlists the full force of men's enlightened will.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Men, Democracy, World War 2

  Franklin D. Roosevelt (1995). “The Essential Franklin Delano Roosevelt”, Gramercy

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• Regardless of the importance of known evidence to the contrary, the arts are generally regarded as being so much entertaining fluff, a commodity that isn't a priority in the traditional program of learning. This is unacceptable in a so-called 'enlightened' society.

  Ken Danby

  Art, Priorities, Commodity

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• Not everyone who is enlightened by an angel knows that he is enlightened by him.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Angel, Knows

  St Thomas Aquinas (2013). “Summa Theologica, Volume 1”, p.544, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Self-interest is hostile to the common good, but enlightened self-interest is not. And this is the best key to the meaning of enlightenment.

  Allan Bloom

  Keys, Self, Enlightenment

  Allan Bloom (2008). “Closing of the American Mind”, p.167, Simon and Schuster

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• If the teacher is truly enlightened, energy and light is always coming forth from them. To be in their physical presence is a great boon, not of the teacher but of that light which passes through them.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Light, Energy

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• You can't just sit in emptiness. Even the enlightened don't sit in emptiness. We call it emptiness - but we move our mind into a world of light.

  Frederick Lenz

  Moving, Light, Mind

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• I was once like you, enlightened and "rational",
  I too scoffed at lovers,
  Now I am drunk, crazed, thin with misery.
  No one is safe! Watch out.

  Rumi

  Wisdom, Islamic, Drunk

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