Quotes About Wisdom

What she showed me was, Yes, I am Grandmother as she is; there is no separation, really, between us. And that, on this planet, Grandmother Earth, there is no higher authority. That our inseparability is why the planet will be steered to safety by Grandmother/Grandmothers or it will not be steered to safety at all.

There is so much we don't understand. And so much unhappiness that comes because of that.

At menopause, a time of extremely high power and shapeshifting, we are told to behave as though nothing is happening. To continue the "game" of life as if we are still girls. We are not girls. And to continue to act as though we are robs the world and the coming generations of our insights.

Remnants is an extraordinary gift…a kind of Rosetta Stone of the African American woman's soul – all the 'remnants,' the bits and pieces Rosemarie carefully saved, remembered, nurtured, in her ancestors, relatives and self coming together in this extremely useful compendium of wisdom, of sureness and insight that we will be able to use for generations to come.

each of us has knowledge of how to live life differently that no one taught us, and that we can find this knowledge inside ourselves and put it to use.

Si viene, yo feliz. Si no, contenta. Y entonces caigo en que puede que ésta sea la lección que yo tenía que aprender.

La experiencia. Más tarde o más temprano, todos acabamos por tenerla. Para eso, lo único que hay que hacer es ir viviendo.

There was a saying among the Mundo: It takes only one lie to unravel the world.

When I was a child I read books for entertainment and information; I now think of books as lifeboats.

How do we make new and restorative of soul the old pain? How do we learn to carry with grace and humor all that has happened to us?

Our mothers taught us that in the old, old days, when they were their grandmothers and their grandmothers were old—for we are our grandmothers, you understand, only with lots of new and different things added

We were not meant to suffer so much and learn nothing.

It seems wiser to do as hermit crabs do, find a shell and inhabit it.

We recall that to the Cherokee, as to other people who have noticed how long it sometimes takes for humans to develop fully, adulthood comes--if it is coming at all--at the age of fifty-two.

We have had many lifetimes as human beings to learn of the many, many ways we do not wish to be.' 'But we're human,' she said 'and therefore we already are every way there is.' 'That's true,' he said 'but there is still a bit of room for choice, which is why it is worthwhile to remain in contact with your ancestors.

Cuando la miras a los ojos, te das cuenta de que ha estado donde ha estado y ha visto lo que ha visto y ha hecho lo que ha hecho. Y que ahora sabe.

It not nice to speak ill of the dead, one say, but the truth never can be ill.

There is so much we don't understand. And so much unhappiness comes because of that.

The little I knew about my own self wouldn't have filled a thimble!... But one thing I do thank her for, for teaching me to learn for myself, by reading and studying and writing a clear hand. And for keeping alive in me somehow the desire to know.

Some people don't understand that it is the nature of the eye to have seen forever, and the nature of the mind to recall anything that was ever known. Or that was the nature, I should say, until man started to put things on paper.

she is learning a way of life she will never live.

However, loving is nothing if it is not an education...

She was someone who could not be rushed. This seems a small thing. But it is actually a very amazing quality, a very ancient one. She did everything at just the same pace as before, she could tell the time of day or night by the moisture in the atmosphere, and she went about her business as if she would live forever, and forever was very, very long.

We have had many lifetimes as human beings to learn of the many, many ways we do not wish to be. But we are human, she said. And therefore we already are, every way there is