Just being the seeker, somebody whose open to spiritual enlightenment, is in itself the important thing and it's the reward for being a seeker in this world.
Interpretation
Being a seeker of spiritual enlightenment is valuable and rewarding in itself.
This quote emphasizes that the journey of seeking spiritual enlightenment is as significant as the enlightenment itself. It implies that the act of being open and searching for deeper understanding and truth is a rewarding experience, regardless of the outcome.
In practice
In a personal growth seminar discussing the value of self-discovery.
I visited Jobs for the last time in his Palo Alto, Calif., home. He had moved to a downstairs bedroom because he was too weak to go up and down stairs. He was curled up in some pain, but his mind was still sharp and his humor vibrant
I've always had an abundance of material about the subjects of my biographies.
Polite and velvety leaders, who take care to avoid bruising others, are generally not as effective at forcing change.
for Steve, less is always more, simpler is always better. Therefore, if you can build a glass box with fewer elements, it’s better, it’s simpler, and it’s at the forefront of technology. That’s where Steve likes to be, in both his products and his stores.
What are the five products you want to focus on? Get rid of the rest, because they’re dragging you down. They’re turning you into Microsoft. They’re causing you to turn out products that are adequate but not great.
When there are multiple versions of a story, you really have three ways to go. You can pick the most sensational version. You can try to balance things in your gut to get to what you think is the honest truth. Or you can err on the side of kindness.
The compensation of a very early success is a conviction that life is a romantic matter. In the best sense one stays young.
Men develop ideas and systems of explanation by absorbing past knowledge and critiquing and superseding it. Women, ignorant of their own history [do] not know what women before them had thought and taught. So generation after generation, they [struggle] for insights others had already had before them, [resulting in] the constant inventing of the wheel.
A man is hindered and distracted in proportion as he draws outward things to himself.
Don't be insecure, if your heart is pure
As a reader and a writer, I'm happiest when apparently mutually exclusive states can somehow coexist.
Many a serious thinker has been produced in prisons, where we have nothing to do but think.
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