Quotes About Wisdom

I move in the university of the waves.

He who knows does not speak. He who speaks does not know.

Spiritual evolution is a movement from the states of mind that reflect life less accurately to the states of mind that reflect life more accurately.

Bible study is essential to spiritual maturity.

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

Sustaining a loving heart, even for a moment, makes one a spiritual being.

You keep insisting, I feel good because the world is right! Wrong! The world is right because I feel good. That's what all the mystics are saying.

The more you know yourself, the more clarity there is.

In spiritual maturity, the opposite of injustice is not justice but compassion.

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.

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Eternity is not the hereafter...this is it. If you don't get it here you won't get it anywhere.

There are two sorts of truth: trivialities, where opposites are clearly absurd, and profound truths, recognised by the fact that the opposite is also a profound truth

What matters are not the truths other people tell us or the practices that we are able to mimic, but the spiritual discoveries we make through personal investigation.

Intuition is the source of scientific knowledge.

Be too big for worry and too noble for anger.

Human affairs are like a chess game. Only those who do not take it seriously can be called good players.

Real success is gaining the ability to face situations in life with maturity.

"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."

Poetry is the special medium of spiritual crazy wisdom, the form of expression that comes closest to creating a bridge between words and what is wordless.

You will be transformed by what you read.

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

If you contemplate the Golden Rule, it turns out to be an injunction to live by grace rather than by what you think other people deserve.

So often among so-called "primitives" one comes across spiritual personalities who immediately inspire respect, as though they were the fully matured products of an undisturbed fate.