#enlightened

The Stone of Guilt in the River of the Mind, the block in the flow of intelligence. ~ Paramahamsa Nithyananda ↗

— Paramahamsa Nithyananda

#enlightenment #guru #inspirational #meditation #spirituality

Things are not always what they may seem; the first appearance deceives many; the intelligence of a few perceives what has been carefully hidden. ↗

— Phaedrus

#intelligence

We can only be enlightened to the meaning of wise words only and only if life have put and made us requiring them. ↗

— Toba Beta

#required #wise-words #life

I have been further enlightened by the conversation and correspondence of some illustrious Italians, whom I would gladly name, were I not afraid of exposing them to danger. ↗

— Edmond About

#been #conversation #correspondence #danger #enlightened

In less enlightened times, the best way to impress women was to own a hot car. But women wised up and realized it was better to buy their own hot cars so they wouldn't have to ride around with jerks. ↗

— Scott Adams

#around #best #best way #better #buy

He who knows himself is enlightened. ↗

— Lao Tzu

#himself #knows #who

The more enlightened our houses are, the more their walls ooze ghosts. ↗

— Italo Calvino

#ghosts #houses #more #ooze #our

Enlightened leadership is spiritual if we understand spirituality not as some kind of religious dogma or ideology but as the domain of awareness where we experience values like truth, goodness, beauty, love and compassion, and also intuition, creativity, insight and focused attention. ↗

— Deepak Chopra

#attention #awareness #beauty #compassion #creativity

Sexuality is one of the ways that we become enlightened, actually, because it leads us to self-knowledge. ↗

— Alice Walker

#because #become #enlightened #leads #self-knowledge

The only people available to change the world are the people now living in it, with all the beliefs they bring along - however retrograde those beliefs may appear to those of us who see ourselves as enlightened. ↗

— Todd Gitlin

#appear #available #beliefs #bring #change