Quotes About Wisdom

It is useless to attack men who could not be controlled even if conquered, while failure would leave us in an even worse position.

He is untainted by elaborations of the eight mundane concerns.77

I shall go savor the supreme taste of Vajrayana.

first half of the fifteenth century,

the Collection of Aphorisms (sometimes referred to as the Tibetan Dhammapada).

The way we tend to perceive things to be does not accord with the way they are. Again, this does not nihilistically deny the fact of our experience. The existence of things and events is not in dispute; it is the manner in which they exist that must be clarified.

Lamp for the Path to Enlightenment,

Dromtönpa, Ati?a's chief disciple,

Do not speak of the defects [of others]. This states that you should never speak of others' defects—neither their worldly defects, for instance by calling them "That blind person," [70] nor their spiritual defects, for instance by calling them "That morally degenerate person.

Thupten Jinpa

All friends are but M?ra's tricksters; [10] I'll recognize all sense objects as salt water.61

The Amoghap??a Tantra states: "Wisdom" refers to enlightenment, while "heroic being" indicates skillful means; with these two, the welfare of sentient beings will be achieved.468

Such veneration, however, is not accorded to the person himself because of his own greatness, but rather is accorded to the teaching that the teacher embodies and exemplifies.

This too is illusionlike, it is dreamlike.

the truth is not supposed to free you from the truth, just from everything else

Adulthood is a lie, Audre. We're all just tall toddlers.

P.S. The older I get, the more I wonder if the secret to true happiness is knowing which dreams to let go of.

Grown women knew better than to attach themselves to time bombs. Teenage girls couldn't wait to be ruined.

No amount of intelligence can save you from stupidity.

Don't swear off all the fruits just because you ate one bad apple.

there's also nothing noble about being fearless. How much do you wanna bet the last man standing in a battle is usually the biggest fool of all?" - Paul Hudson

He turned and looked up at me with the face of a needy child and the eyes of an ancient shaman.

Thank heaven for the wisdom of the prophets of rock 'n' roll.

Absorbing his words was like taking a drink of hot tea. They burned on the way down, but soothed my insides once they had time to cool off.