#enlightenment quotes

[connectingwithsoul]

The practice of spirituality is not one of running away from suffering. It is the practice of learning how to transform suffering into well-being. A good practitioner knows the exact amount of suffering that she or he needs. If we allow suffering to overwhelm us we will die; that is why we need the exact amount of suffering that will help us to understand and to love.

-Thich Nhat Hanh, a Vietnamese Buddhist monk & peace activist

[2lovepoetry]

The eyes will no longer be blind....

[kittywyldchyld]

"To Do List: 1. Sit and think 2. Reach enlightenment 3. Feed the cats" #cats #enlightenmentquotes #enlightenment #QOTD #Buddha #blackcatsrock #ToDoList #lists #catlovers #catmemes #catpics #buddhapics #catlady #catsofIG 

[ivemanifest]

Your perspective can change everything.

[riverdeansart]

there's a few things i'd like to go and fix on this, but that takes time and who has that?

[universetalkz]

If you do not spend time getting to know yourself, you will end up absorbing everyone else's random and conflicting ideas about you.

Knowing who you are on a very deep and intimate level is the best way to protect yourself from internalizing disempowering opinions from others.

[thecalminside]

If you realize that you have enough, you are truly rich.

If you stay in the center and embrace death with your whole heart, you will endure forever.

-Lao Tzu

[sacredlux]

[dreamy-conceit]

Seek the wisdom that will untie your knot. Seek the path that demands your whole being.

— Rumi (Jalāl al-Dīn Muḥammad Rūmī), translated by Maryam Mafi in 'Hidden Music'

[nevesmose]

The crowd found this amusing. Perturabo scowled at them. He had not intended to be funny.

Perturabo: The Hammer of Olympia by Guy Haley.

[philosophybits]

The more complex and sensitive the social, economic, and scientific mechanism, to the operation of which the system of production has long since attuned the body, the more impoverished are the experiences of which the body is capable.

Max Horkheimer & Theodor W. Adorno, Dialectic of Enlightenment

[connectingwithsoul]

A kind person also experiences anger.

[palatinewolfsblog]

"A child's mind is not a bucket to fill, but a fire to be kindled." Dorothea Brande.

[blackswaneuroparedux]

For 200 years we had sawed and sawed and sawed at the branch we were sitting on. And in the end, much more suddenly than anyone had foreseen, our efforts were rewarded, and down we came. But unfortunately there had been a little mistake…The thing at the bottom was not a bed of roses after all; it was a cesspool full of barbed wire. ... It appears that amputation of the soul isn't just a simple surgical job, like having your appendix out. The wound has a tendency to go septic.

- George Orwell, Notes on the Way

Orwell on post-Christian societies.

[ivemanifest]

So much fucking opportunities are existing right now in this moment for you

[thepersonalwords]

Dreaming pleasantly is spiritual.

Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!