Quotes About Wisdom

Thinking is only a small aspect of consciousness. Thought cannot exist without consciousness, but consciousness does not need thought.

The reason why you don't put your hand in the fire is not because of fear, it's because you know that you'll get burned. You don't need fear to avoid unnecessary danger — just a minimum of intelligence and common sense.

Todo lo que puedo hacer es recordarle lo que ha olvidado. El conocimiento vivo, antiguo y sin embargo siempre nuevo, se activa entonces y se libera desde el interior de todas las células de su cuerpo.

It is no so much that you use your mind wrongly - you usually don't use it at all. It uses you. This is the disease. You believe that you are your mind. This is the delusion.

They look upon the present moment as either marred by something that has happened and shouldn't have or as deficient because of something that has not happened but should have. And so they miss the deeper perfection that is inherent in life itself, a perfection that is always already here, that lies beyond what is happening or not happening, beyond form. Accept the present moment and find the perfection that is deeper than any form and untouched by time.

Most ancient religions and spiritual traditions share the common insight—that our "normal" state of mind is marred by a fundamental defect.

Teachings that pointed the way beyond the dysfunction of the human mind, the way out of the collective insanity, were distorted and became themselves part of the insanity.

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

leave the situation or accept it. All else is madness.

The word Being explains nothing, but nor does God.

Stupidity is relatively harmless, but intelligent stupidity is highly dangerous.

Action arising out of insight into what is required is more effective than action arising out of negativity.

si no hubiera ilusión no habría iluminación".

who you are is always a more vital teaching and a more powerful transformer of the world than what you say, and more essential even than what you do.

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 the moment

Words, no matter whether they are vocalized and made into sounds or remain unspoken as thoughts, can cast an almost hypnotic spell upon you. You easily lose yourself in them, become hypnotized into implicitly believing that when you have attached a word to something, you know what it is. The fact is: You don't know what it is.

The secret of life is to die before you die and find that there is no death

Nothing out there will ever satisfy you except temporarily and superficially, but you may need to experience many disillusionments before you realize that truth.

It read: 'Danger. All structures are unstable.' I said to my friend, 'That's a profound sutra [sacred scripture].' And we stood there in awe. Once you realize and accept that all structures (forms) are unstable, even the seemingly solid material ones, peace arises within you. This is because the recognition of the impermanence of all forms awakens you to the dimension of the formless within yourself, that which is beyond death.

The recognition of the false is already the arising of the real.

The problems of the mind cannot be solved on the level of the mind.

WATCH ANY PLANT OR ANIMAL AND LET IT TEACH YOU acceptance of what is, surrender to the Now. Let it teach you Being.

Only those who have transcended the world can bring about a better world.

Tao Te Ching.