Quotes About Wisdom

Do not consider painful what is good for you.

Spiritual progress is when on becomes free not only of the knowledge which is inevitably from the past, but also from the need to know... and a desire to predict and control.

We have to get back to the spiritual law if we are to survive.

If I could do it all again, I'd be a plumber.

To praise is to praise how one surrenders to the emptiness.

Soul receives from soul that knowledge, therefore not by book nor from tongue. If knowledge of mysteries come after emptiness of mind, that is illumination of heart.

Words reduce reality to something the human mind can grasp, which isn't very much.

Thinking well is integral to acting righteously. Truth and spirituality are of a piece: to know the truth is to do it. There is no dichotomy between the two. To be spiritual is to know/do the truth.

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

If what one has to say is not better than silence, then one should keep silent.

Oh what idiots we have all been, this is just as it must be

You don't have to learn to be wise. If you just flow you can be successful. Mother Nature will carry you.

Humanity is not a gift of nature, it is a spiritual achievement to be earned.

Thought alone cannot recognize spiritual truths no matter how highly developed thought is. It's impossible.

Would you rather be right or free?

I want to be just a pure spiritual leader.

Inner silence works from the moment you begin to accrue it. What the old sorcerers were after was the final dramatic, end result of reaching that individual threshold of silence.

In order to meditate correctly, you must have knowledge.

By being receptive, we can avail ourselves of the spiritual wealth available to us. By being open, we can receive things beyond what we ourselves might imagine.

Learn your lessons quickly and move on.

The Spirit is neither good nor bad, it runs where the wild heart leads" "Wisdom begins in wonder.

Before you speak, my friend, remember, a spiritual man contain his anger. Angry words are like slap in de face.

In a spiritually sensitive culture, then, it might well be that age is something to be admired or envied.

This is the great lesson that we are here to learn through myriads of births and heavens and hells - that there is nothing to be asked for, desired for, beyond one's spiritual Self (atman).