Quotes About Wisdom

Become at ease with the state of "not knowing.

Suffering is necessary until you realize it is unnecessary.

If increased meta-knowledge is not counter-balanced by a corresponding growth in consciousness then the likelihood of psycho-spiritual dysfunction is great.

A belief may be comforting. Only through your own experience, however, does it become liberating.

Life will give you whatever experience is most helpful for the evolution of your consciousness. How do you know this is the experience you need? Because this is the experience you are having at this moment.

Here is a new spiritual practice for you: don't take your thoughts too seriously.

Consciousness is a vast ocean and thinking is the waves & ripples on the surface of the ocean. Every wave & ripple has a very short lived life - it is very fleeting Do not identify with your thoughts - continued indentification with the stream of thinking leads to a very serious dysfunction in ones sense of identity...

Don't seek the truth. Just cease to cherish opinions.

Why is old considered useless? Because in old age, the emphasis shifts from doing to Being, and our civilization, which is lost in doing, knows nothing of Being. It asks: Being? What do you do with it?

What it doesn't say — but only points to — is more important than what it says.

Whenever tragic loss occurs, you either resist or you yield. Some people become bitter or deeply resentful; others become compassionate, wise, and loving. Yielding means inner acceptance of what is.You are open to life.

Become at ease with the state of "not knowing." This takes you beyond mind because the mind is always trying to conclude and interpret. It is afraid of not knowing. So, when you can be at ease with not knowing, you have already gone beyond the mind. A deeper knowing that is non-conceptual then arises out of that state.

Seek out a tree, and let it teach you stillness.

You also realize that all the things that truly matter — beauty, love, creativity, joy, inner peace — arise from beyond the mind. You begin to awaken.

When you no longer believe everything you think, you step out of thought and see clearly that the thinker is not who you are.

Sometimes surrender means giving up trying to understand and becoming comfortable with not knowing.

Anything "bad" that happens in your life — use it for enlightenment.

I have lived with several Zen masters — all of them cats. Even ducks have taught me important spiritual lessons. Just watching them is a meditation.

You don't need fear to avoid unnecessary danger — just a minimum of intelligence and common sense.

The good news is: If you can recognize illusion as illusion, it dissolves.

The quicker you are in attaching verbal or mental labels to things, people, or situations, the more shallow and lifeless your reality becomes, and the more deadened you become to reality, the miracle of life that continuously unfolds within and around you.

true love, which has no opposite because it arises from beyond the mind.

Whenever anything negative happens to you, there is a deep lesson concealed within it, although you may not see it at the time.

Most people treat the present moment as if it were an obstacle that they need to overcome. Since the present moment is life itself, it is an insane way to live.