Wisdom

Gossip is passing on information when you are neither part of the problem nor part of the solution.

The embrace of a new technology by ordinary people leads inevitably to its embrace by people of malign intent.

You cannot judge any man beyond your knowledge of him, and how small is your knowledge.

Einstein created an unstoppable 'intellectual chain reaction,' an avalanche of pulsing, chattering neurons and memes that will ring for an eternity.

As the twig is bent the tree inclines.

Knowledge (curriculum) and behavior (pedagogy) are embedded in everyone’s core beliefs about the nature of God, humanity, and the world.

The hatred of hatred is still hate.

What is arrogant pride (abhimaan)? It is to believe the weight of the body-complex [pudgal] to be one’s own weight. It is to believe that ‘I am Great’.

Though beauty gives you a weird sense of entitlement, it's rather frightening and threatening to have others ascribe such importance to something you know you're just renting for a while.

In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.

Readers are plentiful.

When in doubt, know your way out, I always say.'I thought you always said, 'When in doubt, blame the dark elves.''Well, yeah, that too.'I don't think those are very practical solutions to doubt,' Oberon said. 'They don't leave you feeling satisfied. 'When in doubt, eat your neighbor's lunch' is better, because then you would at least be full.

No denial of the truth will ever invalidate it.

The good thing about being old is not being young.

The ‘wounded men’ may, I argue, represent a form of shamanistic suffering, ‘death’ and initiation that was closely associated with somatic hallucinati.

What if I forgave myself even though I'd done something I shouldn't have?

No matter what they say in the conferences and symposiums about poverty and hunger in the world. At the end, they are the first one forgetting us.

There is enough in the world for everyone's need, but not enough for everyone's greed.

Once you understand the innate nature (relative self, prakruti) of the other person, you can remain in an attachment-free state with that person. It is Knowledge (Gnan) to understand the innate nature of a person, and once Knowledge arises, so will conduct.

Ignorance and virtue suck on the same straw...