#enlighten

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

— Steve Maraboli

#life #wallet #experience

It [enlightenment] has not come to you by means of teaching! And-thus is my thought, oh exalted one,-nobody will obtain salvation by means of teachings! (character of Siddhartha, speaking to the Buddha) ↗

— Hermann Hesse

#enlightenment #experience #experience

You necessarily have to be lost, before you’re found. ↗

— T. Scott McLeod

#buddhism #dark-night-of-the-soul #enlightenment #love #meditation

To be Buddha, or Jesus, to attain the attitude of Gandhi, or Rosa Parks, to follow no one, but to lead, to show others the path of compassion and kindness, to be a leader and not a follower, to have honor and courage; to fear nothing and no one, to create my own path, that is who I am ↗

— Martin Suarez

#create-your-future #create-your-life #enlightenment #gandhi #jesus

Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel. ↗

— Socrates

#enlightenment #learning #lifelong-learning #mentorship #education

If on the one side we do not harbor the illusion that the entire proletariat must be enlightened before it can be called into battle, so on the other we do not doubt that as much enlightenment as possible must be produced with oral and printed agitation. ↗

— Johann Most

#battle #before #called #doubt #enlightened

Falling out of love is very enlightening. For a short while you see the world with new eyes. ↗

— Iris Murdoch

#eyes #falling #love #love is #new

The Bible and several other self help or enlightenment books cite the Seven Deadly Sins. They are: pride, greed, lust, envy, wrath, sloth, and gluttony. That pretty much covers everything that we do, that is sinful... or fun for that matter. ↗

— Dave Mustaine

#books #cite #covers #deadly #enlightenment

Not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, does the enlightened man dislike to wade into its waters. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#dislike #does #enlightened #into #man

Do not think you will necessarily be aware of your own enlightenment. ↗

— Dogen

#enlightenment #necessarily #own #think #will