{"quotes":[{"text":"I’ve heard that sometimes a version of you must die before another more enlightened version can be born. I think that’s true after watching the corpse of myself walk around.","author":"Julie Flygare","tags":["awake","awakening","enlighten","enlightened","enlightenment","inspirational","memoir","narcolepsy","waking-up"],"id":22268,"author_id":"Julie+Flygare"},{"text":"What does egoism mean? It means to become blind through one’s own vision. The Gnani [the enlightened one] removes the egoism.","author":"Dada Bhagwan","tags":["ego","enlightened","gnan","spiritual","spiritual"],"id":26702,"author_id":"Dada+Bhagwan"},{"text":"After sleeping through a hundred million centuries we have finally opened our eyes on a sumptuous planet, sparkling with color, bountiful with life. Within decades we must close our eyes again. Isn’t it a noble, an enlightened way of spending our brief time in the sun, to work at understanding the universe and how we have come to wake up in it? This is how I answer when I am asked—as I am surprisingly often—why I bother to get up in the mornings.","author":"Richard Dawkins","tags":["beauty","color","enlightened","inspirational","meaning","motivational","questions","sleep"],"id":38057,"author_id":"Richard+Dawkins"},{"text":"The main difference is that the enlightened believe that the poor criminal should be rehabilitated while the righteous believe that the immoral criminal should be locked up in jail. Since almost the only available system of rehabilitation in America is to be locked up in jail, the difference remains highly abstract.","author":"William Ryan","tags":["criminal-justice","criminal-justice-policy","enlightened","prison","self-righteousness","society","victim-blaming"],"id":38194,"author_id":"William+Ryan"},{"text":"The worldly life just goes round and round; there is no end to it. If you want to bring an end to it, ask the Gnani Purush [The enlightened one], ‘How long do I have to keep on wandering? I have been going round and round like the ox running the millwheel. Tell the Gnani Purush ‘please bring about a resolution for me!","author":"Dada Bhagwan","tags":["enlightened","gnani-purush","millwheel","resolution","spiritual","wander","worldly-life"],"id":39994,"author_id":"Dada+Bhagwan"},{"text":"What do the vitarags [the enlightened one] say? This world will keep on running, You do not interfere with anything in it. If you want to attain ultimate liberation (moksha) then you will have maintain a state of vitaragta (state free of attachment).","author":"Dada Bhagwan","tags":["attachment","enlightened","liberation","moksha","spiritual","spiritual","ultimate","world"],"id":45507,"author_id":"Dada+Bhagwan"},{"text":"Where are you looking for samadhi (enlightened blissful state)? You just come into your own original Self-form of the Soul, final liberation and samadhi are the natural qualities of the Soul!","author":"Dada Bhagwan","tags":["atma","enlightened","enlightened-one","liberation","moksh","moksha","samadhi","self","soul","spiritual","spiritual"],"id":45743,"author_id":"Dada+Bhagwan"},{"text":"The strong overcome their opponents, the mighty crush them, the shrewd outwit them, the cowardly hide from them, but the enlightened transcend them.","author":"Matshona Dhliwayo","tags":["brave","conquer","conqueror","coward","defeat","enemy","enemy","enlightened","enlightenment","fight","guru","intelligence","intelligence","might","motivation","motivational","motivational","motivational-of-the-day","motivational","motivational-for-women","opponents","rival","sage","shrewd","strength","strength","strong","success","success","transcendence","victory","warrior","wisdom","wisdom","wisdom","wise","wise","wise-sayings","wise-words"],"id":45900,"author_id":"Matshona+Dhliwayo"},{"text":"What is the discovery of the Vitarags, the fully enlightened Ones? It is: ‘the slightest violence is the sign of losing. Even the slightest negative thought about someone is the sign of losing. God resides in every living being; how can this hidden fact be known? The Vitarags have called the elemental Self (the Soul), the most hidden element.","author":"Dada Bhagwan","tags":["enlightened","god","soul","spiritual","spiritual"],"id":51750,"author_id":"Dada+Bhagwan"},{"text":"Criticizing anyone is tantamount to criticizing their worship or devotion (aradhana). It is a grave mistake. It is fine if you cannot support someone, but do not criticize them at all. If there is any criticism, then there is no science of the Vitarag Lords [the enlightened ones]; there is no religion there at all, there is no oneness at all.","author":"Dada Bhagwan","tags":["enlightened","religion","science","spiritual","spiritual"],"id":75061,"author_id":"Dada+Bhagwan"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":106,"pages":11,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}