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You yourself must earnestly practice, the enlightened ones only proclaim the path.
What a fine persecution—to be kept intrigued without ever quite being enlightened.
I always like to see enlightened parents like that; it gives me hope for the future.
We were enlightened people and we fell for this; why wouldn't Muslims fall for this?
An enlightened person is someone who shifts from one plateau of knowledge to another.
I understood that the will could not be improved before the mind had been enlightened.
There are, strictly speaking, no enlightened people, there is only enlightened activity.
To be enlightened means that you really don't change, and yet you're nothing but change.
And so I came to understand why some masters sometimes say, "You are already enlightened."
The social and industrial structure of America is founded upon an enlightened citizenship.
It is possible to wake up very quickly, to become enlightened, or you can do it gradually.
I've got to start using my brain more - I've got to be more ethereal and more enlightened.
My parents were hippies. They met at an ashram, where they were studying how to be enlightened.
A bore is someone who persists in holding his own views after we have enlightened him with ours.
The sage belongs to the same obsolete repertory as the virtuous maiden and the enlightened monarch.
Until you are fully enlightened, you can never know what another person's reality is like for them.
There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people will not feel insecure around you.
But, is it possible for princes and ministers to be enlightened, when private individuals are not so?
We need more enlightened women in senior ranks, and we have to insist that companies are more diverse.
Strictly speaking, there is no such thing as an enlightened person. There is only enlightened activity.
Being enlightened is just being aware. It's just being aware of something that you weren't aware before.
Sexuality is one of the ways that we become enlightened, actually, because it leads us to self-knowledge.
Enlightened beings are rare in the universe. They are the joker in the deck. They are outside the circle.
How can one become enlightened? One can, because one is enlightened - one just has to recognize the fact.
Every individual has the potentiality to become enlightened in the course of this life or later existences
Not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, does the enlightened man dislike to wade into its waters.
It's only important to differentiate between patriotism and nationalism. I speak of enlightened patriotism.
Making sure that when my child went to school people were enlightened enough not to torture them, you know?
Shambhala teachings say we all have the potential to accomplish our enlightened nature - our basic goodness.
In rock music, people have certain assumptions that it makes people more enlightened, and it really doesn't.
Innumerable Buddhas Enlightened... innumerable Christs crucified... always the same Christ, the same Buddha!
Hence the saying: The enlightened ruler lays his plans well ahead; the good general cultivates his resources.
Truly enlightened people never seek to be like others. Rather, they seek to be superior to their former selves.
I am a firm believer that one way to become enlightened is to be so relaxed, as relaxed as you possibly can be.
The true grandeur of humanity is in moral elevation, sustained, enlightened and decorated by the intellect of man.
For a long time, I thought that I was an enlightened parent by virtue of being an enlightened person. What a fool.
so it is with human reason, which strives not against faith, when enlightened, but rather furthers and advances it.
You could go through incarnations forever and never become enlightened, unless of course you do something about it.
If I had to choose between a narrow-minded woman or a man who was an enlightened thinker, I would vote for the man.
I wish I could have been more enlightened at 18 and learned more about men because I could have avoided all the traps.
The new world economic order is not an exercise in philanthropy, but in enlightened self-interest for everyone concerned.
There is no answer. That's what Buddhism says. The Void, oblivion, no answer. To be in that state is an enlightened state.
Enlightened people like Osho are ahead of their times. It is good that more and more young people are now reading his works.
Without the instinct for adventure, any civilization, however enlightened; any state, however well-ordered, will wilt and wither.
The greatness of America lies not in being more enlightened than any other nation, but rather in her ability to repair her faults.
When you go out and meet new people, you can come up with new ideas and be enlightened and help the country become a better place.
So benevolent, enlightened, wise dictators are the most efficient form of government. The problem is what comes afterwards, right?
I feel that what mathematics needs least are pundits who issue prescriptions or guidelines for presumably less enlightened mortals.
Some feminists have this party-line attitude, and they can be very extremist. The most enlightened characters in my film are women.
Enlightened despots are mythical creatures; real despots seem more interested in stealing money or installing their sons after them.