Wise Words
Here is a compilation of my many favorite quotes:
Collection 1:
“Since death is certain,
And the time of death is uncertain,
What is the most important thing?”
“Like a fingernail can cover up the sun, one concept can veil the truth.”
“Reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot, you know.” – Alan Watts
And the time of death is uncertain,
What is the most important thing?”
“Like a fingernail can cover up the sun, one concept can veil the truth.”
“Reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot, you know.” – Alan Watts
“Be careful how you interpret the world: it is like that.”
“What we are, that only can we see.” – Emerson
“You have to believe to see.”
“All misery derives from the inability to sit in a quiet room alone.”
“God has no religion….” – Gandhi
“Only you are the author of all your unhappiness and misery.”
“Let him that would move the world first move himself.” – Socrates
“Emotions:
They are signals,
and not dictators -
They are signals,
and not dictators -
Unless you allow them to be.”
“Religion is like a colored shade on your lens through which you perceive. Many of the worlds disputes are simply red versus green.”
“It is easier to fight for one’s principles than to live up to them.”
“It’s preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly.”
“[Real] Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.” – Chang-Tzu.
“Each one of them is Jesus in disguise.” – Mother Teresa
“The authors of the gospels [the Bible] were unlettered and ignorant men and the teachings of Jesus have come to us mutilated, misstated, and unintelligible.” – Thomas Jefferson
“Discipline is the rejection of instant gratification in favor of something better and higher.”
“Transformation involves turning beliefs into an object of awareness, thus making you see your beliefs – instead of seeing from them.”
“Often times, we try to seek love/attention outside of ourselves, because deep down, we don’t give ourselves enough love/attention.”
“If a man denies his own hostiliy, he would project it and thus feel that the world was attacking him.” – Ken Wilber
“…people and events don’t cause you to be upset, but are merely the occasions for you to upset yourself.”
“We must travel in the direction of our fear.”
“[He] Who looks outside, dreams. [He]
Who looks inside, awakens.”
Who looks inside, awakens.”
“Suffering [pain + avoidance] is created by man’s short-sighted self-interest.”
“World peace is like a fountain of youth.”
“The journey of a thousand miles begins with a long inward glance.”
“A man is what he thinks about all day long.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“I’m humble, and I’m the best!”
“Your mind is your instrument. Learn to be it’s master and not its slave.”
“Reject your thoughts and rise above them.”
“We can easily trap ourselves by believing our inner-dialogue.”
“Don’t confuse your ideas of how things really are, with how things really are.”
“Friendship is never anything but sharing.” – Elie Wiesel
“Dignity does not consist of possessing honors, but in deserving them.” – Aristotle
“To be happy because of something is dependent happiness [and potentially addiction]. To be happy BEFORE anything happens is genuine happiness, as it isn’t dependent on what’s next.”
“The wise harm no one. They go beyond sorrow.”
“Total Freedom is not being enslaved physically as well as mentally.”
“You cannot teach a man or woman anything; you can only help them to find it within themselves.” – Galileo
“It is not our abilities that prove who we are. It’s our choices.”
“Until you make peace with who you are, you’ll never be content with what you have.” – Doris Mortman
“Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.”
“Be too large for worry, too noble for anger, and too strong for fear.”
“We either make ourselves miserable or happy. The amount of effort for either is about the same.”
“Default to trusting and forgiving rather than accusing and begrudging.”
“Give them roots to feel secure and give them wings so they can fly.”
“Do not impose on others what you yourself do not desire.”
“The unexamined life is not worth living.” – Socrates
“Meditation has been scientifically demonstrated to be the #1 way to inwardly transform and consciously develop (all over the map of human potential).”
“Man is made by his belief. As he believes, so he is.”
Desires and beliefs clothe and determine the perception of an individual’s reality; and it is possible to perceive reality as it is – naked.”
“Much of eastern philosophy advocates that if a philosophy has no practical use in everyday life, then it is worthless.”
“Character is what you do when nobody else is around.”
“If you want to know God, you’ve got to get your brain out of the way first. It’s just one big stupid filter…” – Ken Wilber
“Make peace with the past so it doesn’t interfere with the present.”
“My thoughts and desires are my tools. I can choose to be their slave, and I can choose to be free from them.”
“The mind can take many forms. We are the creators of our inner battles. Inner dialogues only have the power that we give to them.”
“Living for that ‘next fix’ can cause us to miss what truly matters in life – which is right here, right now. Don’t let the [expectation of the] future control you!”
“Wickedness comes from ignorance. Happiness comes from moral virtue.” – Socrates
“Human communication is limited by experience, assumption, projection, and ignorance.”
“A perfect balance integrates the hard-headed with the soft-hearted.” – Ken Wilber
“Genius is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration.”
“One of the greatest gifts of [spiritual] realization is the lack of the fear of death.” – Adya Shanti
“God became man so that man may become God.” – Saint Augustine
“In this breaking through I find that God and I are both the same.” – Meister Eckhart
“The kingdom of heaven is within.” – Jesus
“We don’t see things the way they are. We see things the way WE are.” – Talmund
“Hard work spotlights the character of people. Some turn up their sleeves. Some turn up their noses, and some don’t turn up at all.”
“Do you know what happens when you give a procrastinator a good idea? Nothing!” – Gardner
“History will be kind to me, for I intend to write it.” -Winston Churchill
“It’s not ‘what you experience,’ as much as ‘how you handle it.’”
“Knowing exactly what words mean, and knowing how to use them, can be like weilding a sword with precision, or painting a picture with a fine-tip brush.”
“If you understand, things are just as they are. If you do not understand, things are just as they are.”
“We judge everything by the standard of our own mental capacity.”
“Peace and happiness come from within, do not seek it outside of yourself.” – Zen teaching
“Wake up from the dream of appearences.” – Buddha
“I have learned to be content with whatever circumstances I am in.” – Philippians 4:11 (- NASB)
“Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.”
“If you cannot find truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it?”
“Hell is not punishment, it’s training.” – Shunryu Suzuki
“If you look for the bad in people expecting to find it, you surely will.” – Abraham Lincoln
“We need not believe all the stories that our mind tries to convince us of.”
“…our sufferings are rooted in a selfish grasping and in fears and terrors which spring from ignorance.” - The book ‘The Three Pillars of Zen’
“…the true nature of life and death becomes clear to anyone compelled by Zazen to comfront himself nakedly.” – The Three Pillars of Zen
“Technology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that they are one and the same process as the universe.” – Alan Watts
“When you have an itch, you scratch. But not to itch at all is better than any amount of scratching.” – Nagarjuna
“Your work is to discover your work and then with all your heart to give yourself to it.”
Collection 2:
“You can struggle and struggle and struggle (and you will do so) as long as you have the feeling inside you that you’re missing something.” – Alan Watts
“Venturing inward, we can find the root of all unhappiness. Venturing outward, we can find only fleeting pleasure.”
“The opposite of desire is peace, since desire is inner-conflict. To go beneath the waves of (acting on) desire is to find depths of total harmony.”
“You can never get enough of what you don’t really need.” – Eric Hoffer
“If I had six hours to chop down a tree, I’d spend the first four hours sharpening the axe.” – Abraham Lincoln
“If someone can think/talk about quantum physics without becoming dizzy, that shows he has not understood anything about it.”
“Most people would rather be certain of their misery, than risk being happy.”
“Nothing worse could happen to one than to be completely understood.” – Carl Jung
“When I do good, I feel good;
When I do bad, I feel bad,
and that is my religion.” – Abraham Lincoln
“Great minds discuss ideas.
Average minds discuss events.
Small minds discuss people.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
“Never be afraid to laugh at yourself, after all, you could be missing out on the joke of the century.” – Dame Edna Everage
“The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.” – William Arther Ward
“Do not look where you fell,
but where you slipped.” – African Proverb
“The need to control arises out of fear.” – Adya Shanti
“Venturing inward, we can find the root of all unhappiness. Venturing outward, we can find only fleeting pleasure.”
“The opposite of desire is peace, since desire is inner-conflict. To go beneath the waves of (acting on) desire is to find depths of total harmony.”
“You can never get enough of what you don’t really need.” – Eric Hoffer
“If I had six hours to chop down a tree, I’d spend the first four hours sharpening the axe.” – Abraham Lincoln
“If someone can think/talk about quantum physics without becoming dizzy, that shows he has not understood anything about it.”
“Most people would rather be certain of their misery, than risk being happy.”
“Nothing worse could happen to one than to be completely understood.” – Carl Jung
“When I do good, I feel good;
When I do bad, I feel bad,
and that is my religion.” – Abraham Lincoln
“Great minds discuss ideas.
Average minds discuss events.
Small minds discuss people.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
“Never be afraid to laugh at yourself, after all, you could be missing out on the joke of the century.” – Dame Edna Everage
“The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.” – William Arther Ward
“Do not look where you fell,
but where you slipped.” – African Proverb
“The need to control arises out of fear.” – Adya Shanti
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