Enlightened Quotes - Page 38

• The greatest obstacle to enlightenment is getting past your delusion that you are not already enlightened.

  Ramana Maharshi

  Past, Enlightenment, Obstacles

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• The only enlightened masters I know are the people that I see every day and the people that I've seen through my life who have had the understanding, at some level, that we're here to express love.

  Richard Bach

  People, Understanding, Levels

  Interview with Michael Peter Langevin, www.inner-growth.info.

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• Strictly speaking, "you" cannot become enlightened, because who you take yourself to be is like a ripple in the ocean of consciousness - or a little wave if you're a VIP - and the ripple doesn't become enlightened until it realizes that its ripple-identity is ultimately a misperception, that it is the ocean taking on a fleeting ripple-form.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Ocean, Identity, Vip

  "Where Are You Now? An Interview with Eckhart Tolle". Interview with Stephen Gawtry, www.watkinsmagazine.com. November 4, 2014.

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• The abstractness of modern art has to do with how much an enlightened mind rejects of the contemporary social order.

  Robert Motherwell

  Art, Order, Mind

  Robert Motherwell (1999). “The Collected Writings of Robert Motherwell”

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• There was never a point in which I was worried about being jealous about what my friends had seen or done. Instead, I felt blessed that I was able to feel what others were all about. I was enlightened by their truth and way about things.

  Matthew Carter

  Blessed, Jealous, Done

  Matthew Carter (2009). “Liquid Soul”, p.7, Matthew Carter

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• You realize that suicide's a criminal offense. In less enlightened times they'd have hung you for it.

  Peter Cook

  Suicide, Criminals, Realizing

  "Fictional character: George Spiggott". "Bedazzled", www.imdb.com. December 10, 1967.

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• How can one become enlightened? One can, because one is enlightened - one just has to recognize the fact.

  Rajneesh

  Inspirational, Facts

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• We want no dictatorship of physicists, as physicists. If our democracy is to realize its full promise, we want no dictatorship at all - of any species. What we want and need is the enlightened and active interest of all men of intelligence and goodwill in their government, and their participation in its functions.

  Jerome Frank

  Men, Intelligence, Promise

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• It's only important to differentiate between patriotism and nationalism. I speak of enlightened patriotism.

  Charlotte Knobloch

  Important, Speak, Patriotism And Nationalism

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• It's very important to approach pedophiles and pedosexuals and offer them therapy. It's been my experience that you can reach your objective with what I would call kind-hearted, informed and enlightened patients - in the sense that they don't lose their desire, but that they no longer have physical contact with children. That would be the goal.

  Volkmar Sigusch

  Children, Goal, Important

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Everybody wants to get enlightened but nobody wants to change.

  Andrew Cohen

  Change, Enlightenment, Literature

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• I had a great teacher in India who said to me, 'If you think you're spiritual and evolved and enlightened, go home for Christmas.'

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Spiritual, Teacher, Home

  "Remember This Advice From Elizabeth Gilbert When Your Family Pushes Your Buttons", www.huffingtonpost.com. November 21, 2014.

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• How deep a wound to morals and social purity has that accursed article of the celibacy of the clergy been! Even the best and most enlightened men in Romanist countries attach a notion of impurity to the marriage of a clergyman. And can such a feeling be without its effect on the estimation of the wedded life in general? Impossible! and the morals of both sexes in Spain, Italy, France, and. prove it abundantly.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Country, Sex, Men

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge (Illustrated)”, p.3377, Delphi Classics

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• The kind who live for music and are constantly seeking it out, anywhere they can. Who can't imagine a life without it. They're enlightened.

  Sarah Dessen

  Kind, Imagine, Seeking

  Sarah Dessen (2008). “Just Listen”, p.96, Penguin

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• I have been enlightened. I have fallen into poetry and it has swallowed me up.

  Keith Haring

  Fallen, Has Beens

  Keith Haring (2010). “Keith Haring Journals: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.73, Penguin

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• There are many diamonds in the world and if you lose your favorite, you can work hard, earn a lot of money and get another one to replace it. But the moments of your life aren't like that. Once they're gone, they'll never return. Each and every one is the most precious thing in existence. You can never meaningfully compare one moment with any other. You can never meaningfully compare your life with anyone else's. No matter how rich someone else may be, no matter how happy they look, no matter how enlightened they seem, they can never be you. Never, ever, ever. Only you can live your life.

  Brad Warner

  Hard Work, Live Your Life, Matter

  Brad Warner (2005). “Hardcore Zen: Punk Rock, Monster Movies and the Truth About Reality”, p.182, Simon and Schuster

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• Be prepared to be enlightened, enraged, amused, engaged, and above all provoked.

  Beatrix Campbell

  Be Prepared, Amused, Provoked

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• Only those who overflow with love will build the happy and enlightened world of the future.

  Fethullah Gulen

  Love, Happiness, Future

  M. Fethullah Gülen (2010). “Toward Global Civilization Love Tolerance”, p.122, Tughra Books

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• I regret exceedingly that the disputes between the protestants and Roman Catholics should be carried to the serious alarming height mentioned in your letters. Religious controversies are always productive of more acrimony and irreconcilable hatreds than those which spring from any other cause; and I was not without hopes that the enlightened and liberal policy of the present age would have put an effectual stop to contentions of this kind.

  George Washington

  Religious, Regret, Spring

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• What is the way of the Buddha? It is to study the self. What is the study of the self? It is to forget oneself. To forget oneself is to enlightened by everything in the world.

  Dogen

  Self, World, Way

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• The government of the enlightened king? His achievements blanket the world but appear not to be his own doing. His transforming influence touches the ten thousand things but the people do not depend on him. With him there is no promotion or praise - he lets everything find its own enjoyment. He takes his stand on what cannot be fathomed and wanders where there is nothing at all.

  Burton Watson

  Kings, Government, People

  Burton Watson (2003). “Zhuangzi: Basic Writings”, p.92, Columbia University Press

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• Jesus regularly visualized the success of his efforts ... 'I always do what pleases God.' ... Was this conceit? Or was it enlightened creativity and self-knowledge? ...Jesus was full of self-knowledge and self-love. His 'I am' statements were what he became.

  Laurie Beth Jones

  Jesus, Creativity, Self

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• To be enlightened is to know oneself and not run away.

  Veronique Vienne

  Running, Knowing Oneself, Knows

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• The worthiest man to be known, and for a pattern to be presented to the world, he is the man of whom we have most certain knowledge. He hath been declared and enlightened by the most clear-seeing men that ever were; the testimonies we have of him are in faithfulness and sufficiency most admirable.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Men, Society, World

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