It's possible to be completely enlightened. . . except with your family.
Not everyone who is enlightened by an angel knows that he is enlightened by him.
It is easy to imagine that the Buddha, the awakened one, is something or somewhere other than here or that awakening to reality will happen sometime other than now. But as long as we continue to think in terms of time we will deceive ourselves. The you who is chasing enlightenment will never become enlightened. Instead of striving towards some distant goal that you will never reach, I invite you to stop and ask: How am I avoiding the enlightenment that is already present in each moment? How am I seeing separation where it doesn't exist?
If you think you are enlightened; go home for Thanksgiving.
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.
Morandi suggests we are all single in this world, hoping for independent repose. But our best opportunity for a community of excellence depends upon a collection of enlightened individuals.
The enlightened give thanks for what most people take for granted. . . . As you begin to be grateful for what most people take for granted, the vibration of gratitude makes you more receptive to good in your life.
Positions are just a social construct that mean nothing to the enlightened man.
An enlightened person doesn't know it all. Enlightenment simply means walking beyond this and all worlds into nirvana, which is beyond knowledge and ignorance.
so it is with human reason, which strives not against faith, when enlightened, but rather furthers and advances it.
Every individual, from the common mechanic, that works in wood or clay, to the prime minister that regulates with the dash of his pen the agriculture, the breeding of cattle, the mining, or the commerce of a nation, will perform his business the better, the better he understands the nature of things,and the more his understanding is enlightened.
Enlightened Society is all about nurturing the human spirit - waking up to the goodness, kindness and strength that we already have.
True religion extends alike to the intellect and the heart. Intellect is in vain if it lead not to emotion, and emotion is vain if not enlightened by intellect; and both are vain if not guided by truth and leading to duty.
Who cares if you're enlightened forever? Can you just get it in this moment, now?
An enlightened person is the richest person possible, but his richness comes from surrender, not from fight. He does not. . . he has not any conflict with the whole. He has fallen in harmony, he is in a harmonia.
How can anybody be enlightened? Truth is after all so poorly lit
True teachers of enlightenment are hard to find. The popular ones, of course, usually aren't enlightened because how could they be? They just tell people what they want to hear.
And so I came to understand why some masters sometimes say, "You are already enlightened. "
It's very seldom that we see the good of the South. There is a perception that Southerners are racists and everyone else in the nation is 'enlightened. ' There is racism everywhere, and there is good everywhere.
Civilization has not ever been the brother of equality. Freedom was born among the wild eyries in the mountains; and barbarous tribes have sheltered under her wings, when the enlightened people of the plain have nestled under different pinions.