Quotes About Wisdom

One part of wisdom is knowing what you don't need anymore and letting it go.

You can do one of two things; just shut up, which is something I don't find easy, or learn an awful lot very fast, which is what I tried to do.

But there's time yet. The old women of the tribe have almost always been the wiser. If they keep their marbles long enough. Old men forget--or tend to reminisce, and reminisce falsely and sententiously as a rule. We are often very silly in our middle years but we tend to improve

On the whole I think poems don't crawl out of dreams. They are knocked out of rocks.

Ar vertÄ—jo mus sukurti, jie mes tokie prakeikti kvailiai?

Jei vaikyst?je tav?s nemyl?jo, tu nemok?si myl?ti vaiko. Meil? reikia patirti anks?iau. Gali ?skaudinti iš nežinojimo.

I was seeing something I didn't understand and did not want to. No I wasn't. I was seeing something I had always understood and wanted to understand better.

Here we are, the most clever species ever to have lived. So how is it we can destroy the only planet we have?

It is books that are a key to the wide world; if you can't do anything else, read all that you can.

Emma, Emma, Emma," I said, wishing I could somehow teach her to take the smaller blows of life in her stride.

Old age equalizes- we are aware that what is happening to us has happened to untold numbers from the beginning of time. When we are young we act as if we were the first young people in the world.

When red fires blaze in the mountains, why would one need more dry wood? When great rivers are already swollen with water, what need could there be for a heavy rain? When there is already discord between countries, why stir up further turmoil?

Tree It is foolish to let a young redwood grow next to a house. Even in this one lifetime, you will have to choose. That great calm being, this clutter of soup pots and books-- Already the first branch-tips brush at the window. Softly, calmly, immensity taps at your life.

Do not follow the ancient masters, seek what they sought.

if you see for yourself, hear for yourself, and enter deeply enough this seeing and hearing, all things will speak with and through you.

Zen is less the study of doctrine than a set of tools for discovering what can be known when the world is looked at with open eyes.

Bash? wrote, "The moon and sun are travelers of a hundred generations. The years, coming and going, are wanderers too. Spending a lifetime adrift on boat decks, greeting old age while holding a horse by the mouth—for such a person, each day is a journey, and the journey itself becomes home.

Poetry's task is to increase the available stock of reality, R. P. Blackmur said.

There is no dwelling in past, present or future and one is able to see the world without any pre-conceptions.

The peace and equanimity of the Buddha comes from an acceptance of the transitory nature of life.

Words are not the highest reality, nor' what is expressed in words the highest reality. Why? Because the highest reality is an experience which cannot be entered into by means of statements' regarding it. Poetry and visual symbols come much closer to reality. The mind must be in a state of wisdom to understand wisdom.

There is much misunderstanding about who or what the Buddha was. The word Buddha literally means "awakened one".

Koan study is specifically designed to short-circuit the whole intellectual process and experience reality directly.

The elder generation may also take the opportunity to grow. Becoming a grandparent is the crowning event for many people, so why should it present a challenge? Because the rules are about to change, and promoting harmony in the family under new circumstances takes patience and modesty. It requires that the elder generation adopt a long view.