Enlightened Quotes - Page 4

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.

If you want to see how enlightened you are, go spend a week with your family.

Even enlightened despots don't make very good teachers.

If I had to choose between a narrow-minded woman or a man who was an enlightened thinker, I would vote for the man.

To know others is to have knowledge. To know yourself is to be enlightened.

The world grows more enlightened. Knowledge is more equally diffused.

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.

Enlightened beings are rare in the universe. They are the joker in the deck. They are outside the circle.

If there wasn't a way around the samskaras, no one would ever become enlightened.

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.

You could go through incarnations forever and never become enlightened, unless of course you do something about it.

It is possible to wake up very quickly, to become enlightened, or you can do it gradually.

A teacher will have an initial contact at some point with someone. It happens inwardly first. Before you ever meet an advanced teacher, they have somehow traveled inwardly along the astral planes.

Some teachers are very accessible. They advertise a great deal, they go out into the public. If they're advanced teachers, doubtlessly they are very inaccessible in terms of physical proximity.

Some teachers are extremely inaccessible. They feel their teachings are for very few so they make it intentionally hard to get to themselves.

It is incumbent upon the student to go to the teacher to learn.

If you meditate with a teacher who is enlightened, you can ride with them into stages of mind that are perhaps not available to you at this time.

An enlightened person is someone who shifts from one plateau of knowledge to another.

When you meditate with an enlightened teacher, you will feel something from them. They just dissolve completely, absorption in nirvana, where they don't even have physical contact with this world anymore.

To be enlightened means that you really don't change, and yet you're nothing but change.

Innumerable Buddhas Enlightened... innumerable Christs crucified... always the same Christ, the same Buddha!

The ignorant ever shun and dread the gifted and enlightened.

It is our hope, that men in proportion as they grow more enlightened, will learn to hold their theories and their creeds more loosely, and will none the less, nay, rather all the more be devoted to the supreme end of practical righteousness to which all theories and creeds must be kept subservient.

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.

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.