Wisdom Quotes

"We seek to perceive directly, immediately, the nature of awareness itself."

"Your job is not to figure out how it works, but to figure out how to work with what works."

"I'm not looking outside myself for the answers anymore."

"The sacred is in the ordinary."

"The spiritual path has been well hidden by those who wish to keep it."

"Keep your heart open and your mind open."

"The mind is the slayer of the real. Let the disciple slay the slayer."

"The only real voyage of discovery is seeing through new eyes."

"The moment of enlightenment is when you stop trying to be enlightened."

"The Greatest truths are the simplest things in the world, simple as your own existence."

"The greatest gift is the gift of understanding."

"The greatest discovery is the discovery of self."

"The pursuit of wisdom never ends."

"The heart knows truths the mind cannot comprehend."

"But I'll tell you what hermits realize. If you go off into a far mountain hermitage and you think about how to help the world, you will never figure it out."

"When you finally awake, you will realize that everything is in you."

"The greatest deception is thinking you know yourself."

"Wisdom is the chief thing; therefore get wisdom: and with all thy getting get understanding."

"There is wisdom in not being too wise."

"Millions of people haven't found the way because they insist on searching for it."

"Man is made or remade by himself; in the armory of thought he forges the weapons by which he destroys himself; he also fashions the tools by which he builds for himself heavenly mansions of joy and strength and peace."

"The root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing hits, but not when it misses."

"Scepticism is the highest of duties; blind faith the one unpardonable sin."

"The only way to conquer evil is through goodness."

"Knowledge without compassion is mere cleverness."

"The heart knows truths that the mind cannot understand."

"Enlightenment is not something to be achieved; it is the natural state when the mind is free from stress."

"The purpose of all spiritual practice is to restore you to your natural state of wholeness."

"Wisdom comes not from accumulating information, but from deep understanding of universal laws."

"You are not your mind. You are the observer of your mind."