Wisdom Quotes: The Wisest Quotes Ever

Wise people - wise sayings

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David Bohm wisdom quote

Thought, Thinking, Mind

Thought runs you. Thought, however, gives false info that you are running it, that you are the one who controls thought. Whereas actually thought is the one which controls each one of us.

David Bohm

Karen Armstrong wisdom quote

The spiritual message of the stranger, the Other

And sometimes it's the very otherness of a stranger, someone who doesn't belong to our ethnic or ideological or religious group, an otherness that can repel us initially, but which can jerk us out of our habitual selfishness, and give us intonations of that sacred otherness, which is God.

Karen Armstrong

Khalil Gibran wisdom quote

Your daily life is your temple and your religion.
Whenever you enter into it take with you your all.
Take the plough and the forge and the mallet and the lute,
The things you have fashioned in necessity or for delight.
For in reverie you cannot rise above your achievements nor fall lower than your failures.
And take with you all men:
For in adoration you cannot fly higher than their hopes nor humble yourself lower than their despair.

Kahlil Gibran

Mabel Collins

To obtain the pure silence necessary for the disciple, the heart and emotions, the brain and its intellectualisms, have to be put aside. Both are but mechanisms, which will perish with the span of man's life. It is the essence beyond, that which is the motive power, and makes man live, that is now compelled to rouse itself and act.

Mabel Collins

Jiddu Krishnamurti wisdom quote

Conventional education makes independent thinking extremely difficult. Conformity leads to mediocrity. To be different from the group or to resist environment is not easy and is often risky as long as we worship success.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Helena Petrovna Blavatsky wisdom

"Error runs down an inclined plane, while the Truth has to laboriously climb its way up hill." Old truisms are often the wisest. The human mind can hardly remain entirely free from bias, and decisive opinions are often formed before a thorough examination of a subject from all its aspects has been made.

Blavatsky

Anthony de Mello wisdom quote

What is love?"

"The total absence of fear," said the Master.

"What is it we fear?"

"Love," said the Master.

Anthony de Mello

Robert Frager on service

To serve others with gratitude for the opportunity of service is good adab [in Sufism]. A dervish seeks opportunities to serve, knowing that service is an essential part of the spiritual path.

Some years ago, an American dervish was visiting Turkey, and he spent all his free time in Sheikh Muzaffer's bookstore. When a boy came to the shop with tea for everyone, the American dervish immediately pulled out his wallet and paid it. At lunch time, he rushed to pay for the lunches brought to the store. As he reached for his wallet a third time to pay for soft drinks, Sheikh Muzaffer scolded him, "Do you want to take all the benefits of serving others today? Don't be selfish; give someone else a chance to pay!" Serving others is like serving God.

Robert Frager

Dalai Lama wisdom quote

"The very purpose of religion is to control yourself, not to criticize others. Rather, we must criticize ourselves. How much am I doing about my anger? About my attachment, about my hatred, about my pride, my jealousy? These are the things which we must check in daily life."

Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatzo

Wisdom Quotes: The Wisest Quotes Ever

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Wise people - wise sayings

David Bohm wisdom quote

Thought, Thinking, Mind

Karen Armstrong wisdom quote

The spiritual message of the stranger, the Other

Khalil Gibran wisdom quote

Mabel Collins

Jiddu Krishnamurti wisdom quote

Helena Petrovna Blavatsky wisdom

Anthony de Mello wisdom quote

Robert Frager on service

Dalai Lama wisdom quote

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