Quotes About Wisdom

Our suffering is due to Spiritual Amnesia

Spirituality is life through awareness of our true essence

Thank the people who wronged you for the lessons in life

The lessons in life are life

The secret to understanding reality is stillness of body and mind

The storms in life are there to help us grow, washing away the old, clearing a path for the new, teaching us strength, teaching us wisdom. The storms in life are not obstacles to life. The storms in life are life.

Things are often not as they seem, but always as they should be.

Thoughts about reality are not reality

True understanding is understanding the illusion

Trust the spirit not the ego

We resonate with truth because it reminds us of who and what we are

Look within, There is no difference between yourself, Self and Guru. You are always Free. There is no teacher, there is no student, there is no teaching.

No monastery has been successful at producing enlightenment. It has been tried; there are no shortcuts.

The light is there and if you only half open your eyes, you will not see the sun. The sun is always there and does not turn its back on the earth. The earth turns her back to the sun and the result is night. There is no night or levels in the sun. Your own light and wisdom waits for you, but you have been postponing it.

Life is a journey, and you can't carry everything with you. Only the usable baggage.

Buddha's words are everywhere, in every sound of the universe.

The dead are older than the living, he thought. Irrespective of how old they were when they passed over to the other side, they have experienced something which makes them older than any living thing.

Reason has an elder sister, never forget that. She's called Intuition.

I don't think it will do any harm if he is made aware that we are not a bunch of idiots.

Or so he understood it. If you have twelve treasured memories, his Uncle Arndt had once said as Münster sat on his knee, you will have led a happy life.

Eyes must look far ahead, and thoughts be deeply pondered. Be bold and unremitting in attack. Give the wrong command, and two chariots are rendered useless. Come the right moment, a pawn can bring you victory.

Speak but little, and that little only when thy own purposes require it. Heaven has given thee two ears but only one tongue, which means: listen to two things, but be not the first to propose one.

All philosophers must, therefore, doff their hats to the poets when they discover that the path of reason takes them only so far.

The more you are getting older, you lose a little something. Of course there is another advantage, because of your long experience you can use it.