Quotes About Wisdom

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

Una palabra no es más que un medio para llegar a un fin. Es una abstracción. De forma parecida a un poste indicador, señala algo más allá de sí misma. La palabra miel no es miel. Usted puede estudiar y hablar de la miel todo el tiempo que quiera, pero no la conocerá realmente hasta que la pruebe. Después

You are in touch with something infinitely greater than any pleasure, greater than any manifested thing.

É, eu sei que isso é verdade.

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 depth returns to your life. Things regain their newness, their freshness. And the greatest miracle is the experiencing of your essential self as prior to any words, thoughts, mental labels and images.

What the world doesn't tell you—because it doesn't know—is that you cannot become successful. You can only be successful. Don't let a mad world tell you that success is anything other than a successful present moment.

And Rumi, the great poet and teacher of Sufism, declares: "Past and future veil God from our sight; burn up both of them with fire.

Yes, you are the Truth. If you look for it elsewhere, you will be deceived every time.

The predominance of mind is no more than a stage in the evolution of consciousness.

El Buda dice que el dolor o sufrimiento surge por el deseo y que para liberarnos del sufrimiento tenemos que cortar los lazos del deseo.

If you can recognize illusion as illusion, it dissolves.

When a log that has only just started to burn is placed next to one that is burning fiercely, and after a while they are separated again, the first log will be burning with much greater intensity. After all, it is the same fire. To be such a fire is one of the functions of a spiritual teacher.

Una creencia puede ser consoladora. Sin embargo sólo a través de su propia experiencia se vuelve liberadora.

I didn't realize yet that thinking without awareness is the main dilemma of human existence.

Instead of quoting the Buddha, be the Buddha, be "the awakened one," which is what the word buddha means.

You cannot stop thinking. Compulsive thinking has become a collective disease.

Watch any plant or animal and let it teach you acceptance of what is, surrender to the Now. Let it teach you Being. Let it teach you integrity - which means to be one, to be yourself, to be real. Let it teach you how to live and how to die, and how not to make living and dying into a problem.

Negativity is not intelligent. It is always of the ego.

You will be free to let go of unhappiness the moment you recognize it as unintelligent. Negativity is not intelligent. ... The ego may be clever, but it is not intelligent. Cleverness pursues its own little aims. Intelligence sees the larger whole in which all things are connected. ... Cleverness divides; intelligence includes.

There is an Eastern saying: "The teacher and the taught together create the teaching.

Attention is primordial intelligence, consciousness itself.

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 depth returns to your life.

If uncertainty is unacceptable to you, it turns into fear. If it is perfectly acceptable, it turns into increased aliveness, alertness and creativity.

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