Quotes About Wisdom

you look at your child with intelligence, do you see that to get him everything that he asks for is sheer stupidity?

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spirituality is not a moral code.

We have reached a point today where authority has become the truth. But soon as we turn inward, we realize that truth is the only authority!

If you avoid any experience—whether pain or pleasure, sorrow or joy—it is big karma. But if you go through the experience without resisting it, the karma dissolves. This is why Krishna in the great Indian epic the Mahabharata says that hesitation is the worst of all crimes.

Without knowing the essential nature of this (referring to the self), we are trying to make a life outside. That is the biggest mistake humanity has made. The first and foremost thing you must know is this (referring to the selfx). Then you can handle the external like a play, without any effort.

true intelligence is just life and life—and that which is the source of life.

An idiot is incapable of drawing conclusions. A mystic is unwilling to draw conclusions. The rest have glorified their conclusions as knowledge.

Discern the real from the illusory, what is existentially true from what is psychologically true.

Guru" literally means "dispeller of darkness." The function of the guru, contrary to popular belief, is not to teach, indoctrinate, or convert. The guru is here to throw light on dimensions beyond your sensory perceptions and your psychological drama, dimensions that you are currently unable to perceive. The guru is here, fundamentally, to throw light on the very nature of your existence.

Inert minds are not a problem. Someone who is very simpleminded and whose intellect is still not effervescent has no trouble. He eats well and sleeps well. It is only people who think too much who cannot eat and sleep properly! Simpleminded people perform all the activities of the body far better than the so-called intellectuals of the world.

if you trust that the Divine is of a higher intelligence than you, it's better to just make yourself an offering and allow the Divine to function through you, rather than you deciding what should happen.

When unpleasant things happen in our lives, we can become either wise or wounded - that is our choice.

The intellect, which is based on memory, is a wonderful tool. However, it can only inform; it cannot transform.

If you look at your life closely, you will find that you have done the most idiotic and life-negative things when you were angry.

Once you've tried all those things and more, and clearly know that none of it will ever be enough—then you are ready.

Human intellect is mere smartness that ensures survival.

It is a distorted perception if you think that just by looking through a keyhole, you have seen the world.

An idiot can sit here quietly. A mystic can sit here quietly.

If you want to know the experiential dimensions of life, you will never know them with the petty process of thought. Even if you have the brain of an Einstein, your thought process is still outclassed because thought cannot be bigger than life. Thought can only be logical, functioning between two polarities. If you want to know life in its immensity, you need something more than the intellect.

My blessing is may all your dreams not come true... All of your dreams are just exaggerations of what you already know.

the more profound your understanding of the human mechanism is, the more magical your life will be.

When somebody said something similar two thousand years ago it worked for him—because of the fire in his heart, because of the truth that was burning within him, not because of the words he uttered.

Guru" literally means "dispeller of darkness.