Quotes About Wisdom

One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.

The best teacher is experience and not through someone's distorted point of view

Happiness consists in realizing it is all a great strange dream

my drug was knowing. Knowing what was possible. Knowing how far it could go.

You've gotta know what death is to know life!

Once we've learned enough about the universe we will admit to ourselves that we will never know everything.

Being on a spiritual path does not prevent you from facing times of darkness. But it teaches you how to use the darkness as a tool to grow.

The art of living is neither careless drifting on the one hand or fearful clinging to the past on the other. It consist in being completely sensitive to each moment, in regarding it as utterly new and unique, in having the mind open and wholly receptive - Allan Watts

When we are lost in delusion, it's hard to see even the most obvious truths.

Buddhist teachings are not a religion, they are a science of mind.

There are many ways up the mountain and each of us must choose a practice that feels true to our heart.

many people who come to spiritual practice are frightened by their feelings. They hope meditation will help them to transcend the messiness of the world and leave them invulnerable to difficult feelings. But this is a false transcendence, a denial of life. It is fear masquerading as wisdom.

The poet Hafiz writes, Don't surrender your loneliness So quickly. Let it cut more deep. Let it ferment and season you As few human Or even divine ingredients can.

Letting go does not mean not caring about things. It means caring for them in a flexible and wise way. In meditation, we pay attention to our body with care and respect.

The knowledge of the past stays with us. To let go is simply to release any images and emotions.

wisdom? As the Zen texts explain, "To live in trusting

To meditate is to discover new possibilities, to awaken the capacities of us has to live more wisely, more lovingly, more compassionately, and more fully.

The path of awakening begins with a step the Buddha called right understanding.

Meditation is not a process of getting rid of something, but one of opening and understanding. When

The basic principle of spiritual life is that our problems become the very place to discover wisdom and love. With

You will begin to see desire's impermanent nature, and you will also realize that you do not have to act on every thought or desire. You will learn that you can choose from the many possibilities of how to respond to desire when it arises, and you can discover a new kind of freedom, where you do not have to follow your desires, but can choose to behave in new ways in response to your desires.

Be a lamp unto yourself, make of yourself a light" were the last words of the Buddha. no teacher or outside authority can give us the truth or take it away. in the end, we will find that our heart holds the simple wisdom and unshakable compassion that we have sought all along.

Even Napoleon Bonaparte understood this when, at the end of his life, he stated, "Do you know what astonished me most in the world? The inability of force to create anything. In the long run, the sword is always beaten by the spirit.

There are two kinds of difficulties. Some are clearly problems to solve, situations that call for compassionate action and direct response. Many more are problems we create for ourselves by struggling to make life different than it is or by becoming so caught up in our own point of view that we lose sight of a larger, wiser perspective. Usually