#enlightened

I really love idiot, enlightened characters - these characters who fail to engage with the drama of their immediate circumstances; they fail to be reactive and enrolled by drama as it happens around them. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

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This could never be a crime in any society which deems himself enlightened. ↗

— Jack Kevorkian

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To whom does design address itself: to the greatest number, to the specialist of an enlightened matter, to a privileged social class? Design addresses itself to the need. ↗

— Charles Eames

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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

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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

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Sexuality is one of the ways that we become enlightened, actually, because it leads us to self-knowledge. ↗

— Alice Walker

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There is strong shadow where there is much light. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Everybody wants to get enlightened but nobody wants to change. ↗

— Andrew Cohen

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Now the reason the enlightened prince and the wise general conquer the enemy whenever they move and their achievements surpass those of ordinary men is foreknowledge. ↗

— Sun Tzu

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It is only the enlightened ruler and the wise general who will use the highest intelligence of the army for the purposes of spying, and thereby they achieve great results. ↗

— Sun Tzu

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