Quotes About Learning

We can't really digest food unless there's hunger. So we can't really assimilate spiritual wisdom unless we feel the need for it.

You should study not only that you become a mother when your child is born, but also that you become a child.

When you come before spiritual master, be prepared to get chastised. Spiritual Master's business is to do that. Shisya means who is ready is accept 'sashan' or ready dor getting chastisement.

Man lives only to learn. And if he learns it is because it is the nature of his lot, for good or bad.

It is the pain of ignorance which makes one into a seeker.

There is no moment, ever, that does not either hold an opportunity or a lesson that God is offering.

I move in the university of the waves.

That's the whole spiritual life. It's learning how to die. And as you learn how to die, you start losing all your illusions, and you start being capable now of true intimacy and love.

Bible study is essential to spiritual maturity.

Journeys at youth are part of the education; but at maturity, are part of the experience.

As Benjamin Franklin said, 'Those things that hurt, instruct.' It is for this reason that wise people learn not to dread but actually to welcome problems and actually to welcome the pain of problems.

Each experience in your lifewas absolutely necessary in order to have gotten you to the next place, and the next place, up to this very moment.

Intuition is the source of scientific knowledge.

When we learn new behaviors and break through to higher levels of consciousness and love, we can fulfill the deeper spiritual hunger within.

"My former master taught me to accept birth and death." "Then what have you come to me for?" asked the master. "To learn to accept what lies in between."

You will be transformed by what you read.

Every calamity is a spur and a valuable hint.

Two there are who are never satisfied -- the lover of the world and the lover of knowledge.

I think our learning lies along the path of whatever it is we love.

The book you don't read won't help.

In order to meditate correctly, you must have knowledge.

Learn your lessons quickly and move on.

It is the enemy who can truly teach us to practice the virtues of compassion and tolerance.

Learning comes from education, while knowing comes from revelation. Learning is cognitive, while knowing is spiritual.