Quotes About Wisdom

At times Maharajji's behavior reminds me of a story Ramakrishna tells of a saint who asked a snake not to bite but to love everyone. The snake agreed. But then many people threw things at the snake. The saint found the snake all battered. "I didn't say not to hiss," said the saint.

If a pickpocket meets a saint, he sees only his pockets." Then he'd get up and leave. Or he'd write, "If you wear shoeleather, the whole earth is covered with leather." These were his ways of teaching me about how motivation affects perception.

If you listen to your own inner voice, it will tell you where you are now, and which method will work best for you in your evolution towards the light.

To him who has had the experience no explanation is necessary, to him who has not, none is possible." And

The quieter you become the more you can hear.

Maharajji would quote Kabir: "It is easy to dye your cloth, but it is hard to dye your heart.

Trust the messages coming from your heart and intuition.

If you observe well, your own heart will answer."—de Lubicz

Ram asks Hanuman, "Who are you, Hanuman?" Hanuman answers, "When I don't know who I am, I serve you. When I know who I am, I am you.

When someone asked Maharaj-ji how to meditate, he said, "Meditate the way Christ meditated. . . . He lost himself in love.

In The Lazy Man's Guide to Enlightenment, Thaddeus Golas says, "You never have to change what you see, only the way you see it.

He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts."—Samuel Johnson

Strategies in the book involve ways to use the mind to go beyond the mind, ways to understand states of consciousness that are beyond thought, and ways to identify ourselves other than through our mind, through our intuition, and so forth.

I was just getting more and more knowledgeable. And I was getting very good at bouncing three knowledge balls at once. I could sit in a doctoral exam, ask very sophisticated questions and look terribly wise. It was a hustle.

the journey across the great ocean of existence Is a journey inward ever in deeper and deeper and the deeper you get in the more you meet truth

Sooner or later the realization comes that nothing we can think of is going to do it.

Hafiz the poet said, "O thou who are trying to learn the marvel of love from the copybook of reason, I'm very much afraid that you will never really see the point.

It's not the crow's feet under your eyes that make you old, Or the gray in your hair, I'm told. But when your mind makes a contract your body can't fill, You're over the hill, brother, you're over the hill.

The goal of the path is to BE high, not GET high.

The more conscious that a being becomes, the more he can use any occupation as a vehicle for spreading light.

A lineage that is pure is one that catapults us ultimately out the other end; it isn't designed to make us followers of the lineage. It is designed to take us through itself and free us at the other end.

woman once came to Gandhi with her young son. "Mahatma-ji, tell my son to stop eating sugar. It's not good for him." Gandhi told her to return with her son in a week's time. When they returned, Gandhi said to the boy, "Stop eating sugar." The woman was perplexed and asked Gandhi why he couldn't have told the boy that a week earlier. Gandhi replied, "Because at that time I had not given up sugar." What

But greater than any earthly sacrifice is the sacrifice of sacred wisdom, for wisdom is in truth the end of all holy work.

You learn it all, and then you offer it all up.