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Like most people of my generation, I regard this as a relic of a less enlightened age.
To all but a few enlightened purists, ska equals white people playing reggae embarrassingly fast.
It is certainly not, as is often assumed, an enlightened approach to running a multi-ethnic society.
But some enlightened beings, called bodhisattvas, defer their nirvana, returning to human form to help others free themselves from the cycle.
He had been a bright pupil, supported by his mother and encouraged by the more enlightened teachers in his grammar school.
According to Tibetan Buddhism, the universe is populated by a vast array of enlightened and unenlightened beings.
If we are to succeed in our attempt to transform our unenlightened manifestation into an enlightened one, we need the lineage.
The enlightened throughout the world will concur in the opinion that this proud and most honourable badge was most unfitly bestowed.
The American masses are perceived as apathetic sluggards, whose votes would be better exercised by enlightened foreign observers.
High-minded citizens petitioned Congress to vote in a new era of enlightened laws to cultivate the social graces.
There is still a recognizable contrast with the European experience on the continent, with absolutism and enlightened despotism.
He would govern in the interests of the people as an enlightened but absolute ruler.
But it is difficult, in this so-called enlightened age, to understand why we remain so uptight about it.
Without being free of thought, without the thinking having dissolved, vanished, disappeared, there is no way to be liberated or enlightened.
We become free-floating netizens in a more enlightened, almost angelic, realm.
The more subtle level of Vajrayana practice says, inside you, your most subtle level of consciousness is the enlightened nature of mind.
It restored my confidence and my optimism, and I felt embraced by these many wonderful enlightened spirits.
We have become enlightened the future has dawned we can all now live in the vego utopia without being vego.
Priests have to remain very pure and need a wife who is as spiritually enlightened as they are.
They argued that discussion led to verity and gave enlightened public opinion the force of law.
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In this twentieth century, certain enlightened men are teaching the absurdity and harmfulness of a belief in a deity.
The manifestation of the risen Christ was the instrumentality which enlightened him.
When once any soul is truly enlightened, it cannot but put forth every devisable effort to compel the attention of others.
A judgment enlightened by a vast experience, and unwarped by prejudice, then came into play.
In her simplicity she did not know what it was till a hint from a nodding acquaintance enlightened her.
Huxley, if I remember rightly, asserted in his nonage that science would even afford us a newer and more enlightened morality.
This is one of the too frequent cases where, in our enlightened polity, democracy plays wantonly into the hands of monarchism.
It may be more advisable to leave such matters to the enlightened discretion of a judge, awed by a censorial House of Commons.
The establishment of infant asylums for rachitic children is one of the most enlightened movements of the modern school.
Even this barbarous Baden is becoming enlightened, and now instead of gutten brunn, people write guten Brun.
It is well justified to repeat that some of the most enlightened minds overlook the pragmatics of bygone practice.
The recent denunciation of caste by an enlightened Hindu ruler, the gaekwar of Baroda, is a further significant sign of the times.
Their bringing-up had been the complex result of so much enlightened effort.
He was the only man with whom I could discuss all my perplexities and be enlightened.
The doctrines of the sect, Mr. growse states,4 are of a very enlightened character.
There is not a porteress who has not many times enlightened insurance agents.
Unluckily, Governments cannot be enlightened, and a Government which regards itself as a diffuser of light is the least open to enlightenment.
He, the enlightened man who looks afar in the dark, had fled because of his superior perceptions and knowledge.
Hence the enlightened ruler is heedful, and the good general full of caution.
The tone in which she echoed it ought to have enlightened Miss Woodhull.
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