Quotes About Wisdom

Dispassion and humility lead to spiritual knowledge. Without them no one will see the Lord.

How I wish that somewhere there existed an island for those who are wise and of good will.

Soul development should take precedence over all things.

You cannot be receptive when you are too full of yourself. The less you are, the more you receive. The more you are, the less you receive.

Meditation means to know life beyond the sphere of the physical; to know and experience life not just at the surface but at the source.

Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be attained only by someone who is detached.

Don't neglect your spiritual reading. - Reading has made many saints.

Understand this if nothing else: spiritual freedom and oneness with the Tao are not randomly bestowed gifts, but the rewards of conscious self-transformation and self-evolution.

There's a big difference between being able to explain religion intellectually and transforming that knowledge into spiritual experience.

Everything in the universe is within you. Ask all from yourself.

Those who have themselves for a spiritual director have a fool for a spiritual director.

For understanding in spiritual matters, the golden rule is not intellect but obedience.

The point of the spiritual revolution is not to become a good Buddhist, but to become a wise and compassionate human being, to awaken from our life of complacency and ignorance and to be a buddha.

Spiritual growth requires the development of inner knowing and inner authority. It requires the heart, not the intellect.

It's not just philosophy, not just words; it's knowing how the mind functions; only then can you develop loving-kindness; only then can you become a spiritual person.

If most of us are ashamed of shabby clothes and shoddy furniture let us be more ashamed of shabby ideas and shoddy philosophies.

For the spiritual being, intuition is far more than a hunch. It is viewed as guidance or as God talking, and this inner insight is never taken lightly or ignored.

If you want to find out the purpose of life, you need to look beyond the limitations of body and mind.

Life is not a fairground, but a school. -- Franz Bardon

If anyone makes himself his own master in the spiritual life, he makes himself scholar to a fool.

Nonresistance is the key to the greatest power in the universe.

You and I have spoken all these words, but for the way we have to go,words are no preparation. I have one small drop of knowing in my soul. Let it dissolve in your ocean

Just as armor protects the soldier, spiritual knowledge protects us from the difficulties of life.

I have learned that everything is an opportunity for spiritual enrichment.