No enlightened person would deny its premise, but as an ongoing program it is monotonous, limited, locked in a perception of victimization.
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.
So there's only transcendence in the moment. Nobody can be transcended forever. That's why I say, "Who cares if you're enlightened forever?"
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.
To be learned, add something each day. To be enlightened drop something each day.
To be enlightened means that you really don't change, and yet you're nothing but change.
If you see the illusion you are enlightened, but if you think that you are enlightened you are in the illusion!
There can be associations - enlightened businesses, for example - that do not work on the basis of us against them or wanting profit as the main motivating force behind what they do.
It's possible to be completely enlightened. . . except with your family.
Only a couple of times have I ever been to church and felt enlightened by it.
By keeping the Commandments the soul is purified and the mind too is enlightened, and starts to function as nature intended it to. 'The command of the Lord gives light and enlightens the eyes' (Ps. 19:8).
Who cares if you're enlightened forever? Can you just get it in this moment, now?
To be enlightened doesn't mean you end up stupefied and unable to function.
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.
Most teachers are not enlightened. Very few are. That doesn't mean they are not great teachers.
Shambhala teachings say we all have the potential to accomplish our enlightened nature - our basic goodness.
An enlightened teacher has so much power that when they meditate, a tremendous aura builds up around them. The aura will open up your aura and increase it. You will move into a higher plane of knowledge. You will gain a new view of the world.
The sage belongs to the same obsolete repertory as the virtuous maiden and the enlightened monarch.
Strictly speaking, there is no such thing as an enlightened person. There is only enlightened activity.
Many enlightened persons are never very well known. Many are reclusive. They live in little villages in India or up in the high Himalayas in Tibet. Some have no students at all. Some have a few.