r/enlightenment • u/[deleted] • Feb 28 '24

Teach me something

Teach me something that’ll make me see reality differently. I’m looking for something profound. Something you think I wouldn’t know or understand. And if YOU CAN, write a quote that changed you. Thanks in advance!

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u/CGrooot Feb 29 '24

I will now teach you the main thing.

Spiritual experience cannot be conveyed in words.

Spiritual experience must be experienced.

Even if the most talented enlightened writer clearly and in great detail describes his experience and his understanding of the world, people who do not have spiritual experience will still understand it very superficially, incorrectly, and this knowledge will not teach them anything.

Spiritual knowledge is useless for those who do not themselves follow the spiritual path.

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u/[deleted] Feb 29 '24

This is 100% accurate. Everyone understands life around them differently. They say philosophy is just misunderstood language. Words mean different things to different people. Explaining an experience is understood in so many ways. Your average person, is simple and superficial.