Quotes About Wisdom

Krishna hinted that such a treasure was inside me—Weapons cannot harm it; fire cannot burn it; it is eternal, still and blissful—but the words, slippery as stones that have been left underwater a long time, slid from my fingers even as I tried to examine them. Wisdom that isn't distilled in our own crucible can't help us.

If a guru is a highly developed clairvoyant, he would ask the student to sit down, and he would look into the crown chakra and into the mental permanent seed. Then he would read the past lives of the student.

This is why Jesus taught in parables to the masses, and gave the inner or esoteric teachings and practices to his disciples only (Luke 8:10). Jesus also instructed the disciples not to reveal inner or esoteric teachings and practices to the unprepared when he told them not to cast their pearls before swine (Matthew 7:6).

the divine self) exists in everyone no matter how deeply it may be covered over by greed, anger, and foolishness, or buried by their own deeds and retribution; and when all defilements are removed, sooner or later, it will reappear.

Intuition is knowing through direct inner perception. This wisdom or knowingness must be translated or stepped down into concepts, principles, and words. This manifests as the ajna chakra or understanding. Knowing something through intuition requires only seconds or minutes. But translating intuition into understanding, manifesting as concepts, principles, and words may take weeks, months or years.

A spiritual disciple, being internally good and kind, may project these qualities to others who are not mature and not kind. This may lead to gullibility and being easily fooled by others. A disciple must be on guard against this tendency.

It could manifest and grow like seeds planted throughout your life, so that life itself becomes the guru. The idea is that life becomes the teacher all the time. This seems to be one of the very important messages of Milarepa's life.

The outbreath is like a whetstone, and the mind is like the knife or sword that is being sharpened on that stone. When you sharpen a knife, you draw the blade of the knife across the sharpening stone. Following your outbreath is like drawing the blade of mind across the breath. Then

have forgotten it all, and anyway there is nothing to remember; everything is illusion, yet I am confident that all is well." Just before his death the old man said, "When I die you must not move my body for a week; this is all that I desire.

Becoming "awake" involves seeing our confusion more clearly.

We must begin our practice by walking the narrow path of simplicity, the hinayana path, before we can walk upon the open highway of compassionate action, the mahayana path.

Pain is the best instructor, but no one wants to go to his class.

A good silence never harmed anyone but speaking often causes harm.

Doit chascuns panser et antandre A bien dire et a bien aprandre ; Qu'il est louable de s'appliquer à bien dire et à bien enseigner.

Ensi tote nuit se degenglent Cil qui de mal dire s'estrenglent, Mes tex dit sovant mal d'autrui Qui est molt pires de celui Que il blasme et que il despit.

Well, that's because trust without honesty is blind trust, and blind trust is never wise.

There is no such thing as a stupid question. Just stupid people who ask questions.

With age comes acumen. With experience comes insight.

You know, you are a classic example of the inverse ratio between the size of the mouth and the size of the brain.

You don't know what you don't know. That's why you don't have. Because to know and not to have is not to know.

To think that the wise are not capable of folly is not wise.

Certainly, experience is a large ingredient, although unexamined experience provides no advancement. Thirty years of experience at something, if not properly comprehended and applied, could result in no more than the equivalent of one year's experience repeated thirty times.

the experience of others becomes invaluable. It acts as a shortcut to bypass the long and painful process of trial and error. Indeed, all wise leaders learn from others, both contemporary and historical.

Thirty years of experience at something, if not properly comprehended and applied, could result in no more than the equivalent of one year's experience repeated thirty times.