Quotes About Wisdom

The wider the time gap between perception and thought, the more depth there is to you as a human being, which is to say the more conscious you are.

All I have learned in the twenty years that I have been a monk I can sum up in one sentence: All that arises passes away. This I know.

The realm of consciousness is much vaster than thought can grasp. When you no longer believe everything you think, you step out of thought and see clearly that the thinker is not who you are.

Past and future veil God from our sight; burn up both of them with fire

In normal everyday usage, I embodies the primordial error, a misperception of who you are, an illusory sense of identity. This is the ego. The illusory sense of self is what Albert Einstein, who had deep insights not only into the reality of space an time, but also into human nature, referred to as an optical illusion of consciousness.

A situation needs to be either dealt with or accepted. Why make it into a problem?

Some people get angry when they hear me say that problems are illusions.

I have seen everything that is done under the sun, and behold, all is vanity and a striving after wind." When you reach this point, you are one step away from despair — and one step away from enlightenment.

When you don't cover up the world with words and labels, a sense of the miraculous returns to your life that was lost a long time ago when humanity, instead of using thought, became possessed by thought. A

The ego doesn't know that mind and mental positions have nothing to do with who you are because the ego is the unobserved mind itself. In Zen they say: "Don't seek the truth. Just cease to cherish opinions." What does that mean? Let

nothing real can be threatened.

Neither God nor Being nor any other word can define or explain the ineffable reality behind the word, so the only important question is whether the word is a help or a hindrance in enabling you to experience That toward which it points.

Surrender is the simple but profound wisdom of yielding to rather than opposing the flow of life. The only place where you can experience the flow of life is the Now, so to surrender is to accept the present moment unconditionally and without reservation. It is to relinquish inner resistance to what is.

The Buddha says that pain or suffering arises through desire or craving and that to be free of pain we need to cut the bonds of desire.-Eckhart Tolle

I don't know' is not confusion. Confusion is: 'I don't know, but I should know' or 'I don't know, but I need to know.' Is it possible to let go of the belief that you should or need to know who you are?

No-mind is consciousness without thought. Only in that way is it possible to think creatively, because only in that way does thought have any real power. Thought alone, when it is no longer connected with the much vaster realm of consciousness, quickly becomes barren, insane, destructive.

La no-mente es conciencia sin pensamiento. Sólo la no-mente permite pensar creativamente, porque da al pensamiento un poder real.

Enlightenment means rising above thought, not falling back to a level below thought, the level of an animal or a plant.

Even when the ego seems to be concerned with the present, it is not the present that it sees: It misperceives it completely because it looks at it through the eyes of the past.

Don't get attached to any words. They are only stepping stones, to be left behind as quickly as possible.

Buddha's simple definition of enlightenment as "the end of suffering.

The wise man's "maybe" signifies a refusal to judge anything that happens. Instead of judging what is, he accepts it and so enters into conscious alignment with the higher order.

Being at ease with not knowing is crucial for answers to come to you.

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