#enlighten

The Jews are a race and not a religion. My goal was not to persecute the Jews but to enlighten Gentiles to put them on guard. ↗

— Julius Streicher

#gentiles #goal #guard #jews #persecute

Socialism proposes no adequate substitute for the motive of enlightened selfishness that today is at the basis of all human labor and effort, enterprise and new activity. ↗

— William Howard Taft

#adequate #basis #effort #enlightened #enterprise

Personally I believe that the courses we followed for some years after World War II were enlightened, surprisingly imaginative and extremely effective. ↗

— David Bruce

#believe #courses #effective #enlightened #extremely

The you that you think of as you (and that thinks of you as you, and so on) is not you, it’s just the character that the underlying truth of you is dreaming into existence. Enlightenment isn’t in the character, it’s in the underlying truth. ↗

— Jed McKenna

#ego #enlightenment #self #dreams

Maybe it’s something which can’t be defined,” Enso Roshi says. “Maybe it’s a question, to be lived. ↗

— T. Scott McLeod

#enlightenment #life-s-greatest-answers #life-s-purpose #living-the-question #meditation

I was tired in the evening yesterday. I felt drained by the last days outer conflicts. I felt separated from life. Suddenly I heard the wind blowing through the trees outside my open window, whispering a silent and playful invitation: "Do you want to play? Do you want to join the dance?" This playful invitation again joined my heart and being with the Existential dance. I was again in a silent prayer and oneness with life. ↗

— Swami Dhyan Giten

#existence #god #life #meditation #one-with-life

If you would listen, sir, in the sense of being aware of your conflicts and contradictions without forcing them into any particular pattern of thought, perhaps they might altogether cease. ↗

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

#life

The heart is an artist that paints over what profoundly disturbs it, leaving on the canvas a less dark, less sharp version of the truth. ↗

— Dean Koontz

#introspective #artists

Enlightenment means taking full responsibility for your life. ↗

— William Blake

#light #life

Sometimes in the quest for enlightenment the only thing that gets lighter is your wallet. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#life #wallet #experience