Wisdom Quotes
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Experience comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained.
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At the core of IFS is the notion that the mind of each of us is like a family in which the members have different levels of maturity, excitability, wisdom, and pain. The parts form a network or system in which change in any one part will affect all the others.
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Abu Dharr once described the people of the world, says, "They breed what will they ultimately bury, they build what will eventually be destroy, they hold firm to what is emphemeral, and they forsake what is everlasting. Hence, blessed are the two cries people abominate most: Death and poverty.
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Where there are so many, all speech becomes a debate without end. But two together may perhaps find wisdom.
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The Word of Wisdom does not promise you perfect health, but it teaches how to keep the body you were born with in the best condition and your mind alert to delicate spiritual promptings.
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Truthful speech provides, in the sphere of interpersonal communication, a parallel to wisdom in the sphere of private understanding.
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Where wisdom is called for, force is of little use.
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I think that cynicism can often be mistaken for wisdom.
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You can only acquire it successfully if you cease to feel any sense of shame.
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No one, however smart, however well-educated, however experienced, is the suppository of all wisdom.
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Strength and wisdom are not opposing values.
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You have to learn humility. First of all you have to be humble people. Unless and until you have a large heart you can never humble down. You have to be an extremely humble person. Humility doesn't mean that you bow to a person who is dominating, it never means that. But it means a strength within you. The person who is weak can never be humble.
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Man's ideal state is realized when he has fulfilled the purpose for which he is born. And what is it that reason demands of him? Something very easy-that he live in accordance with his own nature.
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The events that occur in my life are workout situations. They are there for my benefit so I can become strong and gain wisdom and information by working my way through those situations.
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Wisdom is a kind of knowledge. It is knowledge of the nature, career, and consequences of human values.
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Suffering should always open the door to wisdom.
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Money without wisdom diminishes the pleasure and enjoyment of wealth.
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Anyen Rinpoche is a compassionate embodiment of wisdom. The skillful teachings in The Tibetan Yoga of Breath will be a source of peace and happiness for many in these troubled times, for which I am very grateful.
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The wisdom of the years is confusing. Only the wisdom of eternity is edifying.
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Conventional wisdom is so scary because what if everybody's wrong?
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How to do meditation, many people ask. Don't do anything, just go into thoughtless awareness. Try to go to the thoughtless awareness. If you can get into that condition of thoughtless awareness, you've done your job because that's the point where you are with the truth, with the reality, with the joy, with everything that is so fundamental.
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It is the beginning of wisdom when you recognize that the best you can do is choose which rules you want to live by, and it's persistent and aggravated imbecility to pretend you can live without any.
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If an idea is indeed sensible, it will eventually become just part of the accepted wisdom.
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The lips of the righteous teach many, but fools die for want of wisdom.
