Quote Originally Posted by Voldmer View Post
Very few are particularly enlightened, and they must learn to accept the fact, that their kindred spirits are few, and far between.

Most people have little inner light, and they feel no need for any inner light, so they will likely remain unenlightened.

[Zen mode on]
There is no problem in this, unless the enlightened cling to the hope, that the people around them will one day understand. Because then they will become frustrated.

Enjoy the flowers, and allow the rotting corpses to rot!

[Zen mode off]
"You can hold your breath until you turn blue, but they'll still go on doing it."

"A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower than himself. The one produces aspiration; the other ambition, which is the way in which a vulgar man aspires."

- Marcus Aurelius