Wisdom Quotes

"Humility is the foundation of wisdom and growth"

"To allow oneself to be carried away by a multitude of conflicting concerns, to surrender to too many demands, to commit oneself to too many projects, to want to help everyone in everything, is to be unfaithful to one's own task."

"The monk is not defined by his task, but by his vision."

"To be a saint means to be myself."

"He who attempts to act and do things for others or for the world without deepening his own self-understanding, freedom, integrity and capacity to love, will not have anything to give."

"I do not want the peace which passeth understanding, I want the understanding which bringeth peace."

"There must be a time when you stop expecting other people to make you happy or unhappy on purpose."

"We need to be as innocent as doves and as wise as serpents."

"The greatest danger facing us is that we will become what we hate."

"What you are looking for is what is looking."

"Poverty of spirit is the beginning of all goodness."

"God speaks to us not always in words, but in nature and in silence."

"To understand something is to be at peace with it."

"Do not aspire to have more, but to be more."

"The most dangerous temptation is the one you do not see."

"A man is what he thinks about all day long."

"The most subtle of all temptations is the temptation to be proud of your humility."

"We grow in wisdom through suffering and disappointment."

"Judgment of others reveals the places where we fear ourselves."

"Spiritual growth requires us to question our certainties."

"The poor teach us about the nature of God's love more than any theology."

"Spiritual maturity involves accepting ourselves with compassion and honesty."

"Spiritual growth requires that we embrace both darkness and light."

"The sense of separation is the root of all suffering."

"You cannot find yourself because you have never been lost."

"Every experience is a teaching about the nature of consciousness."

"Suffering exists only in the belief in separation."

"Understanding is the return to your original nature."

"Wisdom is seeing clearly without preference."

"You are the consciousness in which all appears."