Visits to private homes and schools can be equally enlightening since children get an opportunity to interact with their peers while also glimpsing their day-to-day lives.
Coincidentally, on the day of filming, it rained heavily, something which Swift was enlightened by, since it corresponded to the video's gloomy and dark feel.
I'm sure you weren't entirely bad people in the eighth grade, and I'm sure, like all of us, you've grown and enlightened yourselves since then.
Yet a more obvious explanation is the sweat and the tears of a people with a passion for work and self-improvement, coupled with generally enlightened economic policies since the 1960s often in the face of what is now known as the "Washington consensus".
Of course, there is enlightened self-interest since trillions have been "stolen" from retirement accounts by the healthcare system that could be managed by the likes of a MassMutual.
The interviews with the cult members were similarly enlightening, particularly since they represented a diseased extension of the desire for individuality with which he has always been identified.
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.
Wright gives the example of the God of Leviticus, who said, "Love your neighbor as yourself," and he points out that this isn't as enlightened as it may sound, since, at the time, "neighbors" meant actual neighbors, fellow Israelites, not the idol-worshipers in the next town.
Since we are all originally enlightened (benjue, 本覺) practice is not a process of acquisition, but one of restoration.
