Enlightened Self Quotes

#1. My commitment to the security and future of Israel is based upon basic morality as well as enlightened self-interest. Our role in supporting Israel honors our own heritage.

Gerald R. Ford

#2. How do we give credible hope to the billion poorest people in the world? It requires compassion to get ourselves started, and enlightened self-interest to get serious ... If economic divergence continues, combined with global integration, it will build a nightmare for our children.

Paul Collier

#3. Our identities have no bodies, so, unlike you, we cannot obtain order by physical coercion. We believe that from ethics, enlightened self-interest, and the commonweal, our governance will emerge.

John Perry Barlow

#4. Charm might be described as enlightened self-interest, a development of one's best self ... In the simplest possible terms, I think genuine charm is an unmotivated interest in others.

Arlene Francis

#5. Enlightened self-interest" was how Solo himself had described it.

Greg Rucka

#6. I mean what does a democracy depend on? A democracy depends on the individual voter making an intelligent and rational choice for what he regards as his enlightened self-interest, in any given circumstance.

Aldous Huxley

#7. 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

#8. Whether you believe it a moral imperative or in the rich world's enlightened self-interest, securing the conditions that will lead to a healthy, prosperous future for everyone is a goal I believe we all share.

Bill Gates

#9. Monstrous wars that had killed tens of thousands of innocent people weren't enough to inspire enlightened self-interest. Tiny loans, on the other hand, were. Money has no religion.

Bob Harris

#10. Enlightened self-interest from those involved in hydrocarbons should lead to the support of technologies enabling the clean use of hydrocarbons, such as carbon capture and storage, and not to the defence of deniers and cranks.

Nicholas Stern

#11. The new enlightened self-understanding reminds us that there is no final destination to our journey. The process itself is the destination. There is nowhere we need to arrive to.

Raphael Zernoff

#12. I would define morality as enlightened self-interest ... That old Platonic ideal that there are certain pure moral forms just isn't where we are.

Andrew Young

#13. Inertia is the most powerful force in business. Things stay just as they are until something - brute force, reason, fear, enlightened self-interest, the survival instinct - effects movement.

Patrick G. Riley

#14. The new world economic order is not an exercise in philanthropy, but in enlightened self-interest for everyone concerned.

Carlos Fuentes

#15. We hope the world will act in the spirit of enlightened self-interest.

Atal Bihari Vajpayee

#16. Since the gap between the rich countries and the poor can be removed, it will be. If we are shortsighted, inept, incapable either of good-will or enlightened self-interest, then it may be removed to the accompaniment of war and starvation: but removed it will be. The questions are, how, and by whom.

C.P. Snow

#17. As a leader, 1st, work on yourself- increase your self-awareness. There shouldn't be any other urgent agenda than this. Get enlightened! Know very well who you're including your strengths, weaknesses, and blind spots!

Assegid Habtewold

#18. When writing functions in this fashion as self-directed psychotherapy, we err if we demand that people be entertained and enlightened by the process.

Lawrence Block

#19. Gnani Purush' [the enlightened one] has the [knowledge of the-Self] essence of all religions.

Dada Bhagwan

#20. Soul (Atma) remains very far from where kashays (anger-pride-deceit-greed) are created, the Soul is quite far from there. Where there is absence of kashays, there lies the 'religion of Vitrags (the enlightened ones)', and where kashays are present, lies the 'relative religion'!

Dada Bhagwan

#21. Truly enlightened people never seek to be like others. Rather, they seek to be superior to their former selves.

Robin Sharma

#22. The Enlightened one (Gnani Purush) never wastes his time in counting money; focus of the awareness of the self (upayog) is wasted in doing this. One's focused awareness (upayog) is where he has 'interest'!

Dada Bhagwan

#23. Sexuality is one of the ways that we become enlightened, actually, because it leads us to self-knowledge.

Alice Walker

#24. This 'Knowledge' manifested in 1958! That day I became a 'Gnani' (the enlightened one)! The day before that, 'I' too was agnani (ignorant of the Self), wasn't I?

Dada Bhagwan

#25. Now the stage today is to know that Self Realization gives you experiences and then your faith is established. Not blind but open enlightened faith.

Nirmala Srivastava

#26. If you experience bliss of the Self (samadhi) amidst complete problematic stage, then know that you have met a "Gnani Purush" [the enlightened one]!

Dada Bhagwan

#27. 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

#28. We are born into this precious human existence to achieve the uni cation of opposites and become enlightened, or liberated, from the illusion of separation.

Dashama Konah Gordon

#29. To be unattached in every phase of one's life is indeed full enlightened bliss of the Self (Purna samadhi)!

Dada Bhagwan

#30. Focused awareness of the Self in one direction (upayog) is considered enlightened awareness (jagruti).

Dada Bhagwan

#31. No self-effort in the direction of enlightenment is ever wasted. Even if you don't become fully enlightened in a given lifetime, you will be much happier and more aware.

Frederick Lenz

#32. Chit impurity is due to the relative vision. When the vision becomes real (enlightened), purification of chit occurs.

Dada Bhagwan

#33. The health of an enlightened and progressive society is measured by how vibrant is its science fiction, since that is where true self-critique and appraisal and hope lie.

David Brin

#34. Maybe I ought to have put her together with Coco, who might have enlightened us both about the impracticality and undesirability of giving one's whole self to any man - for all the good it would have done.

Therese Anne Fowler

#35. Unity does not exist in the world. Only when the Gnani Purush [the enlightened one] grants moksha [liberation], does unity arise. Unity cannot prevail without Gnan [knowledge of the self].

Dada Bhagwan

#36. Where are you looking for samadhi (enlightened blissful state)? You just come into your own original Self-form of the Soul, final liberation and samadhi are the natural qualities of the Soul!

Dada Bhagwan

#37. A person who has the slightest fear of insult cannot be called a "Gnani" [the enlightened one] and a person who desires self-recognition [maan] is not a Gnani [the enlightened one].

Dada Bhagwan

#38. This is how social change ultimately happens: enlightened values do not change behavior; the contours of self-interest are altered and new values rush into the vacuum.

William Powers

#39. If one knows how to 'digest' an insult after attaining Self-realization, he will become a 'Gnani' [the enlightened one]. And if he 'digests' an insult before attaining Self-realization, he will become shameless (impudent).

Dada Bhagwan

#40. Irrespective of what religious or intellectual philosophy guides an enlightened person's life plan, self-mastery plays an important, if not quintessential role.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#41. There is no separate entity that could be enlightened or unenlightened. There are only innumerable expressions of the One Being (which we call people, animals, forms), mirror-like facets, reflecting being-ness back to itself.

Enza Vita

#42. To study the Way is to study the self. To study the self is to forget the self. To forget the self is to be enlightened by all the myriad things.

Ruth Ozeki

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

Veronique Vienne

#44. 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

#45. Even a good self will create another good self in the next life, and another one, and that good self will never be enlightened. You'll be bound, life after life, by good karma.

Frederick Lenz

#46. Self-discovery is realistic. It's not built on ideas and philosophies. It's what works. Philosophies are nice if you like philosophies. But self-discovery is predicated on something that really brings you into enlightened states of mind.

Frederick Lenz

#47. Only listen to the observations of the enlightened because everyone else is self-centered, egocentric and bound by the net of desire.

Frederick Lenz

#48. A Gnani [the enlightened one] does not have to turn beads of a rosary; He turns the beads of own's own Self (the Soul).

Dada Bhagwan

#49. The one who protects the body-complex (pudgal) is not the 'enlightened one' (Gnani). A Gnani is the protector of only the Soul and it's natural attributes.

Dada Bhagwan

#50. Writing isn't necessarily a gift it is a passion. You can write a one page masterpiece to 99 pages of crap. What keeps you coming back is that Zen moment when you enlightened your own self with a few cleverly arranged words and saved yourself a $200 trip to the shrink, by simply buying a #2 pencil.

Shannon L. Alder

#51. To be able to see one's own faults; this is known as Enlightened vision (Samkit; Self-realization; right belief).

Dada Bhagwan

#52. An enlightened trust in the sovereignty of human reason can be every bit as magical as the exploits of Merlin, and a faith in our capacity for limitless self-improvement just as much a wide-eyed superstition as a faith in leprechauns.

Terry Eagleton

#53. As we learn to embrace our authentic longings and feelings - and cultivate self-empathy and the corresponding compassion toward others - our society will gradually evolve in a direction that is more tolerant, humane, and enlightened.

John Amodeo

#54. Commercial concerns have expanded from family business to corporate wealth which is self-perpetuating and which enlightened statesmen and economists now dread as the most potent oligarchy yet produced.

Helen Keller

#55. When the outside intent (other than the intent of Pure Soul, Parbhaav) stops, he attains enlightened bliss of the Self (samadhi).

Dada Bhagwan

#56. Self-interest, be it enlightened, works indirectly for the public good.

William H. Prescott

#57. Faith is the readiness to reveal whatever is concealed. You don't have to conceal doubts by putting on patches of self-confirmation. The readiness to be exposed seems to make the difference between ego's approach to spirituality and an enlightened one.

Chogyam Trungpa

#58. The Knower of the Soul is considered Self Realized (The Enlightened one). The knower of all the eternal elements is known as Omniscient (sarvagna).

Dada Bhagwan

#59. Action on behalf of life transforms. Because the relationship between self and the world is reciprocal, it is not a question of first getting enlightened or saved and then acting. As we work to heal the earth, the earth heals us.

Robin Wall Kimmerer

#60. The breath I take, the thoughts I think, the emotions I develop, the blood I circulate, the neurons that are wired, everything is completely controlled and has a deep meaning behind it. My soul is enlightened.

Magith Noohukhan

#61. 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

#62. 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

#63. The Agna, liberating instructions of the 'Gnani' [the enlightened one], purifies the mind. Knowledge of the Self [self realization] will give the mind, solutions in every circumstance.

Dada Bhagwan

#64. In order to make the egoism non-existent [zero], the Gnani Purush [the enlightened one] establishes the awareness of the Pure Soul within.

Dada Bhagwan

#65. How can one go from good [auspicious state] to pure (state)? There are no words for it. It will happen when the Gnani Purush (the enlightened one) gives the awareness of the Self; it will happen when He bestows God's grace upon you.

Dada Bhagwan

#66. The Soul is neither a Jain nor a Vaishnav. The Soul is Vitarag (free from attachment). This is the religion of the Vitarag (the enlightened ones).

Dada Bhagwan

#67. The Spirit is like the steady axis of a wheel. If our attention reaches the immovable firm axis at the very centre of the wheel of our existence (which is constantly moving), we become enlightened by the Spirit, the source of inner peace, and reach a state of complete calm and self-knowledge.

Nirmala Srivastava