Feel like Christ and you will be a Christ; feel like Buddha and you will be a Buddha. It is feeling that is the life, the strength, the vitality, without which no amount of intellectual activity can reach God.
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- Feeling and identity shape reality more than intellectual activity.
- In plain terms
- How you feel determines who you become.
- What can you take from it?
- Cultivate positive feelings to transform yourself.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- Who do you feel like being?
- How does feeling shape you?
Another view
Intellectual activity also plays a significant role in growth.
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