Top 100 Quotes About Enlightened
#1. I feel that what mathematics needs least are pundits who issue prescriptions or guidelines for presumably less enlightened mortals.
Armand Borel
#2. An enlightened ruler doesnot worry about people not knowing him; he worriesabout not knowing people.
Zhuge Liang
#3. You are a mask; behind the mask there is the universe! When you are enlightened, mask goes, you go, you disappear and people does not see you anymore, they see the universe when they look at you! They talk to universe when they talk with you! You are a mask till you are enlightened!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#4. An uneducated heart competes, a half educated heart cooperates but enlightened heart serves
Shubha Vilas
#5. Overcoming fear is a critical factor for anyone who wishes to be really happy, or anyone who wishes to become enlightened
Frederick Lenz
#6. The story of a life can be as long or as short as the teller wishes. Whether the life is tragic or enlightened, the classic gravestone inscription marking simply the dates of birth and death has, in its brevity, much to recommend it.
Michel Houellebecq
#7. PANTALOONS, n. A nether habiliment of the adult civilized male. The garment is tubular and unprovided with hinges at the points of flexion. Supposed to have been invented by a humorist. Called trousers by the enlightened and pants by the unworthy.
Ambrose Bierce
#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. Respond kindly even to unkind treatment.
Respond prudently even to imprudent treatment.
Respond justly even to unjust treatment.
The world surrenders to an enlightened mind.
The stars surrender to a joyful heart.
The universe surrenders to a loving soul.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#10. When we commit ourselves to writing for some part of each day, we are happier, more enlightened, alive, light-hearted and generous to everyone else. Even our health improves.
Brenda Ueland
#11. Create the bounty of madness in your heart (of His love)
Not by intelligence alone will you reach to the truth."
(For if the mind is not enlightened by revelation,
It is better to remain an ignorant one.)
Jalaluddin Rumi
#12. The enlightened man is one with the law of causation.
Wumen Huikai
#13. If I had to choose between a narrow-minded woman or a man who was an enlightened thinker, I would vote for the man.
Marianne Williamson
#14. The Enlightened one has told you in never-to-be-forgotten words that this little span of life is but a passing shadow, a fleeting thing.
Mahatma Gandhi
#15. These modern so-called ministers of God speak all things nice. . . . There is not any hell and there is not any devil and there is not any judgment of God. . . . In our enlightened and sophisticated day
David Jeremiah
#16. The mind of an enlightened human being is flexible and adaptable. The mind of the ignorant person is conditioned and fixed.
Ajahn Sumedho
#17. Believing happiness to be in the eternal thing is called the enlightened vision (samkit).
Dada Bhagwan
#18. Those who act on excitement act intermittently; this is hardly the way to avoid regression. Those whose understanding comes from emotional perceptions are as confused as they are enlightened; this is not a lamp that is constantly bright.
Zicheng Hong
#19. Muslims all over the world are looking with high expectations toward the ummah community in the United States and Canada. Its dynamism, fresh approach, enlightened scholarship and sheer growth is their hope for an Islamic renaissance worldwide.
Murad Wilfried Hofmann
#20. Women should not be enlightened or educated in any way. They should, in fact, be segregated as they are the cause of hideous and involuntary erections in holy men.
Saint Augustine
#21. This dragonfly came up to me. He was hovering right in front of my face, and I was really examining him, thinking, How does he see me? I became enlightened.
Ziggy Marley
#22. 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
#23. People do not believe that there is something like Sahaja Yoga, that there is a power in every human being which is universal and which can be enlightened. It is something beyond the conception of human beings that they can achieve this kind of a spiritual growth within themselves.
Nirmala Srivastava
#25. When the outside intent (other than the intent of Pure Soul, Parbhaav) stops, he attains enlightened bliss of the Self (samadhi).
Dada Bhagwan
#26. Simply because you can perform feats of power does not mean you are, in the classical sense, fully enlightened. It means that you have mastered a few aspects of the mystical kundalini. That's all it means.
Frederick Lenz
#27. We were enlightened people and we fell for this; why wouldn't Muslims fall for this?
Alfons Heck
#28. This ball of liberty, I believe most piously, is now so well in motion that it will roll round the globe. at least the enlightened part of it, for light & liberty go together.
Thomas Jefferson
#29. I have been enlightened. I have fallen into poetry and it has swallowed me up.
Keith Haring
#30. I consist of body and soul - in the worlds of a child. And why shouldn't we speak like children? But the enlightened, the knowledgealbe would say: I am body through and through, nothing more; and the soul is just a word for something on the body.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#31. One of the things I think a lot about, I am perhaps a great example of the enlightened immigration policy of this country where I was able to come here to study and then stay back and work and build a life.
Satya Nadella
#32. Women must work doubly hard to overcome their conditioning in order to become enlightened. They must erase both conscious and unconscious ideas of sexual inferority that have been programmed into their awareness.
Frederick Lenz
#33. In the East a man becomes divine only when he is no longer jealous, a man is thought to be enlightened only when he is no longer jealous. Jealousy is a by-product of the ego and when the ego disappears jealousy disappears. You cannot offend a buddha. Whatsoever you do you cannot offend him.
Rajneesh
#34. If you want moksha (ultimate liberation), then you simply need to understand what the Vitraag Lords (The Enlightened Ones) say. Just understand what the Vitraag Lords are saying, that is what they are saying, nothing else they want to say.
Dada Bhagwan
#35. A knowledge of general literature is one of the evidences of an enlightened mind; and to give an apt quotation at a fitting time, proves that the mind is stored with sentential lore that can always be used to great advantage by its possessor.
James Ellis
#36. Enlightened leaders get more out of their people because they know that each person already has everything it takes to be successful. They
Steve Chandler
#37. A gin and tonic under its tiny canopy of lime, I said, elevates character and makes for enlightened conversation
Michael Chabon
#38. To be unattached in every phase of one's life is indeed full enlightened bliss of the Self (Purna samadhi)!
Dada Bhagwan
#39. There is always need of persons not only to discover new truths, and point out when what were once truths are true no longer, but also to commence new practices, and set the example of more enlightened conduct, and better taste and sense in human life.
John Stuart Mill
#40. 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
#41. You are the reason
For my blessings
And you will be the inspiration
Of my enlightened being
Vishwas Chavan
#42. Until you are fully enlightened, you can never know what another person's reality is like for them.
Krishna Das
#43. They poisoned all their priests and tried enlightened atheism instead, which still meant they could kill as many people as they liked but didn't have to get up so early to do it. The
Terry Pratchett
#44. Throughout his career, Jobs liked to see himself as an enlightened rebel pitted against evil empires, a Jedi warrior or Buddhist samurai fighting the forces of darkness. IBM was his perfect foil. He cleverly cast the upcoming battle not as a mere business competition,
Walter Isaacson
#45. An enlightened person is someone who shifts from one plateau of knowledge to another.
Frederick Lenz
#46. One day, in the deepest oceans - an enlightened century - dipped in blue hope, will be looking for the beads of a thousand truths.
Kristian Goldmund Aumann
#47. If I can bring some light to bear on problems like that, I feel that people will be enlightened not only on the question but also on a way of approaching such questions.
Marvin Harris
#48. Enlightened groups can exist, as long as the individuals' sense of identity is not derived from a mentally defined image of us.
Eckhart Tolle
#49. You know the world has gone mad when those who have enlightened, compassionate views and future visions, are accused of borderline insanity, ridiculed and criticised for thinking positively.
Mango Wodzak
#50. 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
#51. 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
#52. It is natural for a person to make a mistake (commit a fault). What is the way to become free from that? Only the Gnani Purush [the enlightened one] can show it, (which is) 'Pratikraman'.
Dada Bhagwan
#53. I understood that the will could not be improved before the mind had been enlightened.
Johann Heinrich Lambert
#54. 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
#55. In less enlightened times, the best way to impress women was to own a hot car. But women wised up and realized it was better to buy their own hot cars so they wouldn't have to ride around with jerks.
Scott Adams
#56. Instead, I value my images by what's in them; what they convey; and how people respond, react, pause while viewing them, or, perhaps, are enlightened by them.
Harrington III, John Henry
#57. An enlightened citizen is an indispensable ingredient of the infrastructure of
democracy.
Barbara
#58. Because it's no longer enough to be a decent person. It's no longer enough to shake our heads and make concerned grimaces at the news. True enlightened activism is the only thing that can save humanity from itself.
Joss Whedon
#59. The world grows more enlightened. Knowledge is more equally diffused.
John Adams
#60. Saints guide people on the path of religion [dharma] and the Gnani Purush [the enlightened one] grants 'liberation' (moksha).
Dada Bhagwan
#61. As an enlightened teacher of Buddhism, I'd like to welcome you to the pathway to enlightenment. I'd like to encourage you to be more positive, to engage in the practice meditation, to learn how to do this wonderful thing - make your mind still in a crazy world.
Frederick Lenz
#62. They were in a position of total ignorance and people in that position often died without being enlightened.
Eoin Colfer
#63. I always 'worship' those who are enlightened to see the 'God' in me. I always crave to see the 'God' in others even if they won't 'worship' me.
Assegid Habtewold
#64. People nowadays have such high hopes of America and the political conditions obtaining there that one might say the desires, at least the secret desires, of all enlightened Europeans are deflected to the west, like our magnetic needles.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
#65. Oh, fuck Zen," she muttered. "I'll get enlightened when I die.
Thea Harrison
#66. Don't care what anybody says about enlightenment, except the enlightened and those who seek it.
Frederick Lenz
#67. The enlightened ruler is heedful, and the good general full of caution.
Sun Tzu
#68. We owed so much to Herbert's ever cheerful industry and readiness, that I often wondered how I had conceived that old idea of his inaptitude, until I was one day enlightened by the reflection, that perhaps the inaptitude had never been in him at all, but had been in me.
Charles Dickens
#69. The practice of meditation is a way of continuing one's confusion, chaos, aggression, and passion - but working with it, seeing it from the enlightened point of view.
Chogyam Trungpa
#70. 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
#71. Success is when the whole gets enlightened. When you become one with the whole, that's the real success.
Nirmala Srivastava
#72. To be free of insistence [free of forcing one's own opinion] is the path of Vitragta [attachment-free state, the enlightened one]. Quit insisting at all places. To even insist on the truth, God has considered it as ignorance. There is no insistence in 'Us' whatsoever!
Dada Bhagwan
#73. You can't teach someone to be enlightened. It's something you have to go and do. You can't teach someone to meditate well. It's something you have to go and do.
Frederick Lenz
#74. When the experts' scientific knowledge is legitimated in terms of being rational, logical, efficient, educated, progressive, modern, and enlightened, what analogies can other segments of society . . . utilize to challenge them?
Martin Guevara Urbina
#75. Enlightened people live in very charged states of attention, with a tremendous power circuiting through them.
Frederick Lenz
#76. Celibacy doesn't make you enlightened, otherwise every nun or priest in Buddhism or Christianity would be enlightened. People who don't date and can't get any action would be enlightened.
Frederick Lenz
#77. We call it the transmission of the lamp in Zen. That's when we take enlightened states of mind and literally, you can transfer them, just like you can hand somebody flowers.
Frederick Lenz
#78. The Gnanis [The enlightened ones] have said that if one lives as if he is dead, death will never come to him.
Dada Bhagwan
#79. I am a firm believer that one way to become enlightened is to be so relaxed, as relaxed as you possibly can be.
Alanis Morissette
#80. What if thought is not free? What if memory is a prison, society a lie? Sometimes I look around and all I hear is screaming, screaming, screaming - what if you are the enlightened one?
Claire North
#81. Many are convinced, who are not truly enlightened; are afraid of the consequences of sin, though they never saw its evil; have a seeming desire of salvation, which is not founded upon a truly spiritual discovery of their own wretchedness, and the excellency of Jesus.
John Newton
#82. Although enlightened people know that an extreme phobia wasn't a form of madness, hey could not help but regard it as odd.
Dean Koontz
#83. Becoming enlightened is not special, but it's unusual.
Frederick Lenz
#84. Every step and every movement of the multitude, even in what are termed enlightened ages, are made with equal blindness to the future; and nations stumble upon establishments, which are indeed the result of human action, but not the execution of any human design.
Adam Ferguson
#85. 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
#86. Having once adopted us and enlightened our minds by his Word, he keeps the torch of the Word blazing before our eyes, that we may in faith keep our minds upon the judgment and punishment of evil which the impious confidently ignore.
John Calvin
#87. Hold a positive thought of an enlightened person in your mind. When that thought touches their aura, it comes back quickly with a positive lift. You will go up.
Frederick Lenz
#88. Unlike Saudi Arabia, Russia, and China, the United States was created by an enlightened band of Founding Fathers with a global vision for the new republic.
Patrick Mendis
#89. Is it not strange how humans will resort to the most inhumane of actions as the first plausible solution? Why are we such a feral bloodthirsty species when we are supposedly the enlightened ones? Are we guardians ... or just mindless butchers?
Dimitri Zaik
#90. 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
#91. Minds should be enlightened with science, and hearts need to be illumined with religion.
Said Nursi
#92. 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
#93. 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
#94. Positions are just a social construct that mean nothing to the enlightened man.
Manuel Neuer
#95. When enlightened people are so poor that they cannot help others, if they speak a word to awaken the confused or to resolve a problem, there is also boundless merit in that.
Zicheng Hong
#96. Newton, Pascal, Bossuet, Racine, F?nelon
that is to say, some of the most enlightened men on earth, in the most philosophical of all ages
have been believers in Jesus Christ; and the great Cond?, when dying, repeated these noble words, "Yes, I shall see God as He is, face to face!".
Luc De Clapiers
#97. The remedy for the mental unrest, which is in itself an illness, lies not in an enlightened knowledge of the harmfulness and ineffectiveness of worry, not even in the acquirement of an unconscious conscience, but in the living of a life so full and good that worry cannot find place in it. That
Herbert J. Hall
#98. Writing is Amazing!
When I write I am empowered by my thoughts, entertained by my imagination, and enlightened by my wisdom.
Theresa Lewis
#99. Prayers never bring anything ... They may bring solace to the sap, the bigot, the ignorant, the aboriginal, and the lazy - but to the enlightened it is the same as asking Santa Claus to bring you something for Xmas
W.C. Fields
#100. Let your eye be chaste, your hand faithful, your tongue truthful and your heart enlightened.
Baha'u'llah
