Quotes About Wisdom

Mindfulness has to do above all with attention and awareness, which are universal human qualities. But in our society, we tend to take these capacities for granted and don't think to develop them systematically in the service of self-understanding and wisdom. Meditation is the process by which we go about deepening our attention and awareness, refining them, and putting them to greater practical use in our lives.

It's not that feelings of anger don't arise. It's that the anger can be used, worked with, harnessed so that its energies can nourish patience, compassion, harmony, and wisdom in ourselves and perhaps in others as well.

The Tibetans sometimes describe thoughts as writing on water, in essence empty, insubstantial, and transient.

Our lives are simply bigger than thought.

It is only when the mind is open and receptive that learning and seeing and change can occur.

New Yorker cartoon: Two Zen monks in robes and shaved heads, one young, one old, sitting side by side cross-legged on the floor. The younger one is looking somewhat quizzically at the older one, who is turned toward him and saying: "Nothing happens next. This is it.

coming to acceptance is one of the hardest things in the world. Ultimately, it means realizing how things are and finding ways to be in wise relationship with them.

Fui a vivir al bosque porque quería vivir despierto, enfrentarme tan sólo a los hechos esenciales de la vida y aprender lo necesario para no verme obligado, cuando estuviera postrado en mi lecho de muerte, a reconocer que no había vivido.

Their terrible outward appearance is actually a disguise adopted by deities embodying wisdom and compassion to help us attain greater understanding and kindness toward ourselves and toward others

In fact, the word "Buddha" simply means one who has awakened to his or her own true nature.

I want to have the eyes of an adult to see the world as it is, but I more desperately want to have the heart of a child to make certain that I never forget what it could be.

How could we have forsaken the reading of the Holy Bible?

Jesus Christ is the wisdom of God.

Faith means I chose not to know, which is different than ignorance which refuses to know.

Don't ever get to the point where you can't be taught because life is a classroom and everyone owns a pen.

When a faith stubbornly maintained comes into contact with learning, the product of that encounter is always something magnificent, whether it be for good or ill.

To rely solely on logic is in essence to operate within a structure of limited knowledge and understanding

Help our response, Lord, not to be, "WHAT are You doing?!" Instead, give us the perspective to ask, "Lord, what would You teach?

Do not become more useful than God.

The key is putting into practice what God has taught you through His Word.

Maybe you should stop putting so much faith into what you read in books.

Faith is that which is woven of conviction and set with the sharp mordant of experience.

Father! Blessed word.

My abiding faith in the wisdom of our electorate is what gives me hope.