Quotes About Wisdom

I actually think with age comes some level of wisdom.

The joy of the mind is the measure of its strength.

The resistance of a woman is not always a proof of her virtue, but more frequently of her experience.

Old age is woman's hell.

Truth is loving and lovable. It includes all, accepts all, purifies all. It is untruth that is difficult and a source of trouble.

The mind is what it thinks. To make it true, think true.

Don't try to understand! It's enough if you do not misunderstand.

Wisdom tells me I am nothing. Love tells me I am everything. And between the two my life flows.

You may die a hundred deaths without a break in the mental turmoil. Or, you may keep your body and die only in the mind. The death of the mind is the birth of wisdom.

Whatever you forget, is not the truth, always remember that.

Trace your misunderstandings and abandon them, that is all. There is nothing to seek or find, for there is nothing lost. Relax and watch the "I am." Reality is just behind it. Keep quiet, keep silent; it will emerge or, rather, it will take you in.

Don't try to reform yourself; just see the futility of all change. The changeful keeps on changing while the changeless is waiting.

Know yourself as beyond space and time - in contact with them only at the point of here and now, otherwise all-pervading and all-containing, unapproachable, unassailable, invulnerable - you will be afraid no longer. Know yourself as you are - against fear there is no other remedy.

The innermost light, shining peacefully and timelessly in the heart, is the real guru. All others merely show the way.

You cannot be alive, for you are life itself.

Self-realization definitely comes first. The mind cannot go beyond itself by itself. It must explode.

On the verbal level everything is relative. Absolutes should be experienced, not discussed.

prior to consciousness,

To the tongue which bringeth thee words without reason, the answer that best beseemeth thee is?silence.

You can't impart what you don't possess.

Not everything children experience has to be put on their level in order to do them good. Some things must be. But not everything.

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I tell myself that some might be saved if I knew more.

Una palabra serena a un hombre sensato vale más que un año de súplicas a un tonto.