Quotes About Wisdom

If you can maintain a positive inner climate, that will help you drop into and remain in the flow. Then life will feel much easier and Life's opportunities and support will be more apparent. Doing the work of weeding out or learning to detach from beliefs that create a negative internal climate is so important, since such beliefs are what prevent you from being in the flow and, consequently, from tapping into the wisdom and resources you need to handle whatever the flow is bringing.

You choose love over whatever the egoic mind is telling you about life, the past, the future, yourself, someone else, or what you should do. You recognize these messages as coming from the ego, and you choose not to listen to them.

Without our stressful thoughts, we would be kinder, more relaxed, more at peace, lighter emotionally, and more in tune with our innate wisdom and the natural flow of life.

When things don't go as planned, simply asking, "Is it that important?" can be helpful. Answer this question from a place of being zoomed out: "Will this be important a year from now or several years from now? Will this be important on my deathbed?" Many of the things we get upset about wouldn't be important even moments or days later.

Such lifetimes are a crash course in creation. If the learning is not accomplished in that lifetime, the learning continues in between lifetimes and into the next.

Reading is soul work!

Eating, loving, singing and digesting are, in truth, the four acts of the comic opera known as life, and they pass like bubbles of a bottle of champagne. Whoever lets them break without having enjoyed them is a complete fool.

Los rostros jóvenes son como esos cuadernos bellamente empastados que venden en las papelerías con las páginas en blanco. Sólo el tiempo pone palabras en los rostros, historias, carácter.

Quizás esté mal, Eva, pero el Mal también es parte del conocimiento.

The wise soul feareth not death; rather she sometimes striveth for death, she goeth beyond to meet her. Yet eternity maintaineth her substance throughout time, immensity throughout space, universal form throughout motion.

Those wise men knew God to be in things, and Divinity to be latent in Nature, working and glowing differently in different subjects and succeeding through diverse physical forms, in certain arrangements, in making them participants in her, I say, in her being, in her life and intellect.

Time is the father of truth, its mother is our mind.

Deixarei de lado a questão sobre o que é uma tolice: a ilusão, ou sua cura. Um pirronista uma vez disse, Quem poderá nos dizer se nosso estado não é o de morte, e dos alegados mortos, o de vida?

A questão é, visto que somos tolos aos olhos de outrem, todos somos tolos, diferentes em espécie, mas de acordo in genere et numero et casu.

Se non è vero, è molto ben trovato.

Let the young know they will never find a more interesting, more instructive book than the patient himself.

In life, if one wants seriously to understand how the world works, he must die at least once.

Nella vita, se uno vuol capire, capire sul serio come stanno le cose di questo mondo, deve morire almeno una volta. E allora, dato che la legge è questa, meglio morire da giovani, quando uno ha ancora tanto tempo davanti a sé per tirarsi su e risuscitare... Capire da vecchi è brutto, molto più brutto. Come si fa? Non c'è più tempo per ricominciare da zero

Nella vita, se uno vuol capire, capire sul serio come stanno le cose di questo mondo, deve morire almeno una volta. E allora, dato che la legge è questa, meglio morire da giovani, quando uno ha ancora tanto tempo davanti a sé, per tirarsi su e risuscitare...Capire da vecchi è brutto, molto più brutto.

So we are led back to the neutral ground on which Parmenides had placed himself, a ground where reason and truth about nature were one and the same.

Vedi Jim, tu sei una persona intelligente. Molto intelligente. Lo sei sempre stato ma purtroppo ti accontenti di essere solo una persona furba.

Thus, it is quite clear that things which the natural course of events, with its small, infrequent blows, could never teach the wise to bear with patience, the immensity of this calamity made even simple people regard with indifference.

The scholar, as wise as he was full of wrath, knowing that threats only serve as weapons to the person so threatened, kept all his resentment within his own breast [...]

dumheden hos disse mænd og den endnu større dumhed hos dem, der tror, at de er stærkere end naturen, og med eventyrlige argumenter bilder sig selv ind, at de formår, hvad de ikke formår, og ønsker at få andre til at handle ligesom dem selv, selvom det strider imod deres natur.