Sentence examples for become enlightened from inspiring English sources

The heathen cannot enlighten themselves, yet, since no one can become enlightened by non-indigenous agents, enlightened agents have to become indigenous that is, some heathen have to be enlightened as a condition for the enlightenment of the heathen.

Indeed, as Porter argues so effectively, the communication of new knowledge through cheap, accessible print may not in itself have caused the Enlightenment, but without a commercial press England could never have become enlightened.

Some Buddhists believe that enlightened individuals can choose to be reborn in order to help others become enlightened.

We both felt profound inner peace and joked that we had become enlightened.

The teacher is descended from a family of rabbis but in leaving his home to become "enlightened" he has left much of his previous life behind.

They simply are not free to re-interpret the Scriptures the way you do and so become enlightened about universalism because they fear the consequences.

Jesus became enlightened, after John the Baptist gave him the Enlightenment energy (kundalini energy).

It is a Zen exchange in which a pupil becomes enlightened by being taken out of his usual mindset through some painful act by the master.

Let's hope Pence heeds the concerns of the show's cast, but also becomes enlightened by the play's unstated message.

"Under the Bodhi Tree" by Marylin Clements also depicts a Buddha, who became enlightened under a bodhi tree; in the painting, the artist shows what may be an aerial view from such a tree, but the piece is also a kaleidoscope of color and shape.

As one's mind thus becomes enlightened and one's body becomes "adamantine," one attains Buddhahood.