#enlightened

Things are not always what they may seem; the first appearance deceives many; the intelligence of a few perceives what has been carefully hidden. ↗

— Phaedrus

#intelligence

We can only be enlightened to the meaning of wise words only and only if life have put and made us requiring them. ↗

— Toba Beta

#required #wise-words #life

I have been further enlightened by the conversation and correspondence of some illustrious Italians, whom I would gladly name, were I not afraid of exposing them to danger. ↗

— Edmond About

#been #conversation #correspondence #danger #enlightened

He who knows himself is enlightened. ↗

— Lao Tzu

#himself #knows #who

Only one person in a million becomes enlightened without a teacher's help. ↗

— Bodhidharma

#becomes #enlightened #help #million #only

Enlightened leadership is spiritual if we understand spirituality not as some kind of religious dogma or ideology but as the domain of awareness where we experience values like truth, goodness, beauty, love and compassion, and also intuition, creativity, insight and focused attention. ↗

— Deepak Chopra

#attention #awareness #beauty #compassion #creativity

The only people available to change the world are the people now living in it, with all the beliefs they bring along - however retrograde those beliefs may appear to those of us who see ourselves as enlightened. ↗

— Todd Gitlin

#appear #available #beliefs #bring #change

Most enlightened men now recognize that General Jackson is not fitted to fill the office of President; his limited experience of anything to do with civil government and his great age make him incompetent. ↗

— Jared Sparks

#anything #civil #civil government #enlightened #experience

Our identities have no bodies, so, unlike you, we cannot obtain order by physical coercion. We believe that from ethics, enlightened self-interest, and the commonweal, our governance will emerge. ↗

— John Perry Barlow

#bodies #cannot #coercion #emerge #enlightened

The art of Peace I practice has room for each of the world's eight million gods, and I cooperate with them all. The God of Peace is very great and enjoins all that is divine and enlightened in every land. ↗

— Morihei Ueshiba

#cooperate #divine #each #eight #enlightened