Enlightened Quotes

Your playing small doesn't serve the world. There's nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. - Marianne Williamson

You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure about you. We were born to manifest the glory of God that is within us. - Nelson Rockefeller

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

With Guru the egg of doubt has burst; my mind has been enlightened. - Sri Guru Granth Sahib

When I was a boy, we all learned the story of George Washington and the cherry tree and accepted it as gospel truth. The present, more enlightened younger generation, however, is well aware that this incident never happened, but that it was the invention of Washington's most famous biographer, the Rev. Mason Locke Weems. - Grant Wood

What is it in you that brings you to a spiritual teacher in the first place? It's not the spirit in you, since that is already enlightened, and has no need to seek. No, it is the ego in you that brings you to a teacher. - Ken Wilber

What a fine persecution - to be kept intrigued without ever quite being enlightened. - Tom Stoppard

We're seeing a more enlightened Microsoft. Back in 1998, they would've tried to tell people to use their stuff more exclusively. Microsoft is saying to application developers: Don't default to Flash. - Peter O'Kelly

We would like them to be more constrained, more enlightened. There's nothing to prevent them from doing the right thing. - Don Hodges

We stumble and fall constantly even when we are most enlightened. But when we are in true spiritual darkness, we do not even know that we have fallen. - Thomas Merton