Wisdom Quotes

The best minds across centuries have wrestled with what it means to be wise. These quotes capture their hard-won insights.

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"What you are seeking is what is seeking through you."
Rupert Spira
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"What you truly desire is already present as what you are."
Rupert Spira
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"The self cannot be acquired; it can only be revealed."
Rupert Spira
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"Humility is the natural state of consciousness aware of its infinity."
Rupert Spira
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"The search is over; you are what you've been seeking."
Rupert Spira
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"What resists life is suffering; what flows with it is grace."
Rupert Spira
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"All seeking returns to itself in non-seeking."
Rupert Spira
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"Your true nature is not limited by the body or mind."
Mooji
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"You are not your thoughts; you are the awareness observing them."
Mooji
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"The question is not how to change the world, but how to awaken to it."
Mooji
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"What you seek outside is a reflection of what you need within."
Mooji
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"Your consciousness is the only thing that matters."
Mooji
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"Your intuition is the voice of your true nature."
Mooji
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"The mind is a wonderful servant but a terrible master."
Mooji
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"All separation is illusory."
Nisargadatta Maharaj
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"What you resist, you strengthen."
Nisargadatta Maharaj
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"The seeker is the sought."
Nisargadatta Maharaj
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"Stop seeking and you will find."
Nisargadatta Maharaj
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"Words can only point to truth, not express it."
Nisargadatta Maharaj
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"What you desire most, let it go."
Nisargadatta Maharaj
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"Wisdom is seeing without judgment."
Nisargadatta Maharaj
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"What you seek is seeking you."
Nisargadatta Maharaj
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"The ultimate teaching cannot be taught."
Nisargadatta Maharaj
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"Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance."
Francis of Assisi
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"There is nothing so great that I fear to lose it. There is nothing so small that I will not miss it."
Francis of Assisi
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"The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still function."
Francis of Assisi
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"What we seek out of doors is already within us, waiting to be discovered."
Francis of Assisi
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"Blessed are those who see the hand of God in all things, for they see truly."
Francis of Assisi
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"The mark of a true master is not what he knows, but what he humbly admits he does not know."
Francis of Assisi
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"Your suffering has meaning only if you transform it into compassion for others."
Francis of Assisi