Wisdom Quotes - Page 78

In every war, there are always elements of blindness.

Swim upstream. Go the other way. Ignore the conventional wisdom.

The soul is here for its own joy.

Botha swimmer and a drowned man are in the water; the latter is borne by the water and controlled by it, while the swimmer is borne along by his own power and of his own volition. Every movement made by the drowned man - indeed, every act and word that issue from him - comes from the water, not from him... The saints are like this. They have died before death.

The middle path is the way to wisdom

Friendship of the wise is good; a wise enemy is better than a foolish friend.

Political rule is so natural and necessary to the human race that it cannot be withdrawn without destroying nature itself; for the nature of man is such that he is a social animal.

The indigenous understanding has its basis of spirituality in a recognition of the interconnectedness and interdependence of all living things, a holistic and balanced view of the world. All things are bound together. All things connect. What happens to the Earth happens to the children of the earth. Humankind has not woven the web of life; we are but one thread. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves.

There is no reaching the Self. If Self were to be reached, it would mean that the Self is not here and now but that it is yet to be obtained. What is got afresh will also be lost. So it will be impermanent. What is not permanent is not worth striving for. So I say the Self is not reached. You are the Self; you are already That.

A problem adequately stated is a problem well on its way to being solved.

Wisdom is neither gold, nor silver, nor fame, nor wealth, nor health, nor strength, nor beauty.

Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.

They (the youth of Australia) are out there clamouring in all forms of voice, and they are not so much hedging us older Australians aside as saying, 'For heaven's sake, listen to us and empower us to help drive this country towards a wonderful future.'

Now you are changed people. Your personality is different. It's shining through your spirit. In that spirit, you have to see everything. All your conditionings will drop out as soon as you start identifying your Self fully, fully with the spirit. Fully - again I say because we do not. We are still Christians. We are still Hindus. We are still Muslims. We are still Indians, English, this, that. We are still narrow-minded, small, little puddles. We have to be the ocean. Once you are identified with the ocean, you have to throw away everything and become absolutely clean and detached.

There is no solution to any world problem, to any national problem, to any city problem or to any local problem, unless and until people get their Realization.

You are always connected to Source. Wherever you are, wherever you go, you are always connected to Divine Wisdom, Divine Intelligence, and Divine Love.

What a good thing Adam had. When he said a good thing he knew nobody had said it before.

Centralize property in the hands of a few and the millions are under bondage to property - a bondage as absolute and deplorable as if their limbs were covered with manacles. Abstract all property from the hands of labor and you thereby reduce labor to dependence; and that dependence becomes as complete a servitude as the master could fix upon his slave.

You don't get into trouble because of the things you don't know. It is the things you don't know you don't know that really get you into a mess.

The dictatorship of the Communist Party is maintained by recourse to every form of violence.

Those who have succeeded at anything and don't mention luck are kidding themselves.

Argument is the worst sort of conversation.

Many a truth is told in jest.

The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds.

We should not let our fears hold us back from pursuing our hopes.