Quotes About Wisdom

Never fight tomorrow's fight today,

Follow the words, not the person.

They think about that for a moment, how sometimes the only way to learn not to play with fire is to go up in flames.

To recover we must understand and accept impermanence. We must replace the reactive survival instinct of clinging, grasping, and attachment with the wise response of nonclinging, nonattachment, and compassion. In a world where everything is constantly being pulled beyond our grasp, clinging and grasping always result in the rope burns and unnecessary suffering that accompanies it.

We commit to the daily disciplined practices of meditation, yoga, exercise, wise actions, kindness, forgiveness, generosity, compassion, appreciation, and moment-to-moment mindfulness of feelings, emotions, thoughts, and sensations. We are developing the skillful means of knowing how to apply the appropriate meditation or action to the given circumstance.

Those who understand the way it is, rather than the way they wish it were, are on the path to freedom.

The point of the spiritual revolution is not to become a good Buddhist, but to become a wise and compassionate human being, to awaken from our life of complacency and ignorance and to be a buddha.

We come to understand the law of casuality - that is, we see that all beings are experiencing what they're experiencing based on their own actions and not by what we wish for them - and therefore we relax in a deep understanding and acceptance of the way things are.

We will eventually come to realize that acting out our hatred only causes more hatred. Picking up the burning ember of ill will to throw at our enemy burns us before it burns them. Likewise, when we pick up the substance or behavior that allows us to temporarily avoid the pain, we play with fire. It may feel warm and fuzzy at first, but it will inevitably burn us to the core.

A good basic guideline for our speech (in relation to Ethical Conduct) is to reflect whether what we are saying is both true and useful. There may be times when we are honest in what we say, but our words are too brutal or harsh. And there may be other times when we are deliberately being kind with the words we choose, but what we are saying is not totally true.

A good basic guideline for our speech is to reflect on whether what we are saying is both true and useful. There may be times when we are honest in what we say, but our words are too brutal or harsh. And there may be other times when we are deliberately being kind with the words we choose, but what we are saying is not totally true.

It is not true to say that there is no self at all or that everything is empty or illusory, but it is true that everything is constantly changing and that there is no solid, permanent, unchanging self within the process that is life.

Wise and careful action, from a foundation of sober awareness, is the way of the revolutionary.

There is something that the "Naturals" are doing that they don't know they are doing. And no matter how many times they tell you their so called "Secrets of Success", they can't tell you something they're not consciously aware of. It's like saying to a fish, "so tell me about water".

The Bible must be considered as the great source of all the truth by which men are to be guided in government as well as in all social transactions.

Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines everybody is saying, or else you say something true, and it will sound like it's from Neptune.

We shouldn't be looking for heroes, we should be looking for good ideas.

How it is we have so much information, but know so little?

I have a memory like an elephant. In fact, elephants often consult me.

Each new generation, he thought, fails to learn from the one before.

You know," said Grover, "the only thing worse than a smart-assed lawyer is a dumb-assed lawyer.

John Locke said that it is one thing to show a man that he is in an error, and another to put him in possession of truth. It is easy to point out people's faults. They are always so obvious. But this will never change the person. Better to put the truth in their hands. By the power of truth a life will change.

Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge Him, and He shall direct thy paths" (Prov. 3:5-6 KJV).

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