Quotes About Wisdom

The changeless is what knows the change, the changeless is unconditioned

The primary task of any good spiritual teaching is not to answer your questions, but to question your answers.

Suffering occurs when you believe in a thought that is at odds with what is, what was, or what may be.

True inquiry is experiential

Meditation is like an oven that forces the truth out.

Questioner: What's the best thing I can do for my awakening? Adyashanti: Be with an enlightened teacher and listen.

The Truth loves. It does not judge. It holds a big sword in its hands and can ruthlessly discern what is false and what is true, but it does not hold grudges. If you are not telling the truth to yourself, you will suffer. If it was not ruthless, there would be no learning. Truth doesn't spoon feed you.

The Buddha image shows us abiding tranquility amidst the turning wheel of life.

The primary task of any good spiritual teaching is not to answer your questions, but to question your answers. For it is your conscious and unconscious assumptions and beliefs that distort your perception and cause you to see separation and division where there is actually only unity and completeness.

O que quer que você evite na vida irá retornar, repetidamente, até que esteja disposto a encarar isso, a olhar com profundidade para a sua verdadeira natureza.

Spiritual people always think the Truth is hidden from them. It is not hidden. What gets in the way is the idea of what it is going to be.

Jesus said, "Blessed is he who came into being before he came into being.

This adult world has an insane quality to it. Everybody's going around pretending like they really know things, pretending like they know what's real and what's not, pretending they know what's right, pretending they know who's wrong, but actually nobody really knows. But this is something we're afraid of. We don't really want to admit that nobody really knows.

In the Gospel of Thomas, Jesus says, "There is light within a man of light, and he lights up the whole world.

Forgive them, for they know not what they do.

Bronze in the mirror of the form, wine of the mind.

I would far rather be ignorant than knowledgeable of evil.

It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish.

And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God.

Learning is ever in the freshness of its youth, even for the old.

Wisdom comes through suffering.

Time waxing old can many a lesson teach.

A prosperous fool is a grievous burden.

He who learns must suffer And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget Falls drop by drop upon the heart, And in our own despite, against our will, Comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God.