Wisdom Quotes
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I bow to all the seekers of truth. At the very outset we have to know that truth is what it is. We cannot think about it, we cannot conceptualize it. Unfortunately at this human level we cannot feel it, we cannot know it. We have to be the spirit to know the truth.
Nirmala Srivastava
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The reality is that you are the spirit. The rest is a myth.
Nirmala Srivastava
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Truth is one, single, and it can never be misinterpreted. To know the truth it is essential that whatever human awareness we have got, it has to be expanded. There is something still lacking in that awareness by which we cannot know God, we cannot know the truth.
Nirmala Srivastava
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Sometimes I long for a convent cell, with the sublime wisdom of centuries set out on bookshelves all along the wall and a view across the cornfields--there must be cornfields and they must wave in the breeze--and there I would immerse myself in the wisdom of the ages and in myself. Then I might perhaps find peace and clarity. But that would be no great feat. It is right here, in this very place, in the here and the now, that I must find them.
Etty Hillesum
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Silence is so much more productive of wisdom and clarity in thinking.
Ajahn Brahm
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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.
Bessel van der Kolk
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In a powerful, divine dream, I saw 50 million people on a "Royal Journey of Hope" who were looking and yearning for a deeper knowledge of God as the God of Hope in every arena of life and throughout the earth. They are the hope reformers that God will activate to usher the genuine presence and wisdom of Jesus into all the spheres of life into which they are sent.
Bob Hartley
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The path God chooses for each of us to follow isn't always an easy one, but we all have to decide whether or not we're willing to trust in His wisdom and embrace His will.
Delia Parr
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The attention is to be kept pure. In Sahaja Yoga you know all the methods how the attention, one can keep it pure. If the attention is not pure, then this desire will be always attacked by all petty, nonsensical things which have no meaning in your ascent.
Nirmala Srivastava
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I portray myself as wicked, hoping I will not be regarded as wicked. But I may be wicked in the biblical sense
Errol Flynn
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Because right is right, to follow right Were wisdom in the scorn of consequence.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
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Many things can prolong your life, but only wisdom can save it.
Neel Burton
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The truth is you are the pure Spirit. The second truth is that there is a all-pervading Divine power of love. This power of love does all the living work.
Nirmala Srivastava
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Wisdom is found only in truth.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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No man is fit to command another that cannot command himself.
William Penn
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Sure as I am breathing, sure as I'm sad I'll keep this wisdom in my flesh I leave here believing more than I had This love has got no ceiling.
Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
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Children also have artistic ability, and there is wisdom in there having it! The more helpless they are, the more instructive are the examples they furnish us; and they must be preserved free of corruption from an early age.
Paul Klee
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As therefore the state of man now is, what wisdom can there be to choose, what continence to forbear, without the knowledge of good and evil?
John Milton
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Intellect is not wisdom one must understand. They're two things - wisdom and intellect.
Nirmala Srivastava
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There is no way that any of God’s children can be assured of blessings from the Most High without worthy actions in their lives…. We are saved only in direct proportion to the knowledge we gain, but the simple accumulation of facts will in no way save us if we do not possess wisdom…. Change and the development of talents and hidden qualities in each of us are produced by putting into practice the knowledge we have obtained.
Angel Abrea
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True wisdom always leads us to please God.
Anthony DeStefano
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That you may retain your self-respect, it is better to displease the people by doing what you know is right, than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong.
William J. H. Boetcker
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Love is not something dead, like a stone. When it melts, it encompasses everything.
Nirmala Srivastava
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The person who learns to number his or her days gains a heart of wisdom (Ps. 90:12).
Colin S. Smith