Quotes About Wisdom

The highest practice is the one that is most effective, not necessarily the one categorized as "higher.

For example, when practitioners transform into Shenlha Ökar (Shen Deity of White Light), they visualize their bodies as being adorned with the thirteen ornaments of peacefulness that in themselves evoke the enlightened quality of peacefulness.2 Shenlha Ökar himself embodies all six of the antidote qualities of love, generosity, wisdom, openness, peacefulness, and compassion; so as soon as you transform into Shenlha Ökar, you instantly embody these same qualities.

Every diploma is an award for developing a more sophisticated ignorance.

Through the teachings, the introduction by the master, the practice, and the blessings, you can gradually deconstruct and dissolve the karmic conceptual body and be introduced to another type of body and identity called the illusory wisdom body (yeshé gyumé lü). This second body is characterized by wisdom—realization of the truth—and by a positive sense of the illusory.

By helping you discover a deep source of knowledge and wisdom, meditation practice can bring you to the sense of connection, completion, and fulfillment that you yearn for. Ultimately, it can help you arrive at the more profound sense of peace and happiness that comes only from connecting with your deeper essence.

To travel, to experience and learn: that is to live.

The cane leaves a mark on your flesh for a few hours, a day or two. The good answers to the questions leave a mark on your brain for many years, sometimes even for life," my father said.

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I hold this as a rule of life: Too much of anything is bad.

For you to ask advice on the rules of love is no better than to ask advice on the rules of madness.

Draw from others the lesson that may profit yourself.

He is wise who tries everything before arms.

In fact, nothing is said that has not been said before.

Nothing is said that has not been said before.

Nothing is said which has not been said before.

That is true wisdom, to know how to alter one's mind when occasion demands it.

They are so knowing, that they know nothing.

Nobody is smarter than you are. And what if they are? What good is their understanding doing you?

Peter Ustinov was the first really positive influence in my career. He was real and he bore witness to it. The things he said to you, he lived them.

It is a great advantage for us to be able to consult someone who knows us, so that we may learn to know ourselves.

His secrets are hidden deep; but all that he does will be best for us, without the slightest doubt.

Tell the truth and . . .run!" Old Croatian proverb

My old man was a walking, talking master class. But in the end, the main thing I learned—the best thing—was never to bring a knife to a gunfight.

What determines when we stay wise rather than lurch into reactivity? Current research shows clearly that it's determined by our subjective sense of safety or its lack.