Wisdom

Learning and seeing are more important than education.

Thales was asked what was most difficult to man he answered: 'To know one's self.'.

Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice.

The mad have a grace all their own'.

Someone has said that it requires less mental effort to condemn than to think.

Those who weep recover more quickly than those who smile.

The more I write the more I learn about writing. It is easy to say what looks good or sound good on paper until you experience it for yourself.

I do kabbalistic meditation. It's not unlike time travel it can change the past and not just the future. You can look at what was lost and go beyond the grief of what was lost.

Coolness ebbs and flows.Whoever is cool today may not be cool today.

Evolution is constant. Evolving better is individual’s conscience.

Sharing a burdened heart with another who has the wisdom, strength, and knowledge to carry it, frees us from its weight long enough to focus on solutions.

See you now your bait of falsehood take this carp of truth; and thus do we of wisdom and of reach, with windlasses and with assays of bias, by indirections find directions out.

As long as the awareness of ‘doer-ship’ is there, till then, one keeps on ‘charging’ (karma). In the Akram-path, ‘we’ (the Gnani Purush) destroy your doer-ship. The awareness that ‘I am the doer’ goes away and we give the understanding of ‘who the doer is’. Therefore, ‘charging’ (of karma) stops! What is left now? Only the ‘discharge’ is left.

A psychiatrist does not want you to wake up. He tells you to dream some more, to find the pond and pour more tears into it. And really, he's just another bird drinking from your misery.

And once you've been to this Center, this Truth, you'll know your way everywhere. You are never lost again.

A politican is an animal who can sit on a fence and yet keep both ears to the ground.

If cats could write history, their history would be mostly about cats.

Mankind is resilient: the atrocities that horrified us a week ago become acceptable tomorrow.

Verbalize someone's actions back to them. Menace them with language, the language mirror. Death by feedback.

To whom does Mataji (Mother Goddess) appear? It is to the one who becomes natural and spontaneous [sahaj swabhavi]. Mataji is said to have come if the mind, speech and the body become naturally blissful. It can be said that the natural spontaneous energies (adhya shakti) have arisen.