Quotes About Wisdom

In fact, life is our greatest teacher. Whatever we are doing can be instructive, whether we are at the office, or talking to our spouse, or driving a car on the freeway. If we are present to our experiences, the impressions of our activities will be fresh and alive, and we will always learn something new from them. But if we are not present, every moment will be like every other, and nothing of the preciousness of life will touch us.

the longest way round is the shortest way home." Our truest fulfillment does not lie in the direction of a jealously guarded self but in the direction of self-transcendence as we learn to open to others and to reality.

When I see a dolphin, I know it's just as smart as I am.

Sad Fact of Life— Smart people sometimes get stupid, but stupid people never get smart. Never. Ever.

He who speaks least has the most power.

Lesson: Don't hold on to something's going to pull you into a trap. If you're going to let go, let go early. Better yet, don't take the bait at all.

He seeks God in the same, although he has come to believe that truth and God are the same. Truth

You set someone straight, you have to go on the crooked road yourself. Sometimes you get lost.

Old men, he thinks, take their fading pleasures where they can.

Él que menos habla es el más chingón. He who speaks least has the most power.

Smart people sometimes get stupid, but stupid people never get smart.

Also: do not fuck with someone until you know exactly who the fuck you're fucking with. And then don't do it.

Smart people sometimes get stupid, but stupid people never get smart. Never. Ever. 'You can come down the evolutionary ladder,' Chon has observed to Ben and O; 'you can't climb up.

Life's like a fat orange, Frank thinks. When you're young, you squeeze it hard and fast, trying to get all the juice in a hurry. When you're older, you squeeze it slowly, savoring every drop. Because, one, you don't know how many drops you have left, and, two, the last drops are the sweetest.

Stupid is forever, ignorance can be fixed.

Surely, two of the most satisfying experiences in life must be those of being a grandchild or a grandparent.

Rule of thumb: if you think something is clever and sophisticated beware-it is probably self-indulgence.

Living is more important than acceptance - acceptance is not as important as understanding. - Donald Allen Kirch

The body knows things the thinking mind can only imagine.

Zen master Shunryu Suzuki writes, "In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert's there are few."8

I obey the Commandments, the sensible ones. Where they dont know what theyre talking about I ignore them. I keep thinking about the story of the two old women in church listening to the priest discoursing on the dynamics of the married state. At the end of the sermon one turns to the other and says, I wish I knew as little about it as he does.

...as one reads more and more and more you get more fathers in your hierarchy of fathers. And then, after summoning twenty or thirty fathers, perhaps you are born, or perhaps you are not born.

the thing about books is, there are quite a number you don't have to read.

Silence is the language of god, all else is poor translation." —JALALUDDIN RUMI