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There is a time when a man distinguishes the idea of felicity from the idea of wealth; it is the beginning of wisdom.
If I want to be free from any other man's dictation, I must understand that I can have no other man under my control.
To invent your own life's meaning is not easy, but it's still allowed, and I think you'll be happier for the trouble.
When you are realized, you can start feeling your own chakras and the chakras of other people. This is enlightenment.
Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.
However glorious an action in itself, it ought not to pass for great if it be not the effect of wisdom and intention.
Attention has to be concentrated upon your Spirit. Then you become the best instrument, your attention very powerful.
Wisdom is meaningless until your own experience has given it meaning, and there is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.
To take what you know for what you know, and what you do not know for what you do not know, that is knowledge indeed.
One of the hardest labours of the just man is to expunge from his soul a malevolence which it is difficult to efface.
The laws of man may bind him in chains or may put him to death, but they never can make him wise, virtuous, or happy.
I am convinced of the validity of contradiction. There are many worlds. Each is true, at its time, in its own fashion
The contradictory remarks of politicians are forgotten; the more asinine predictions of pundits are buried with mercy.
Consisting mostly of recirculating scrapped metals, 80% of all the metals that have ever been mined are still at work.
Keep the deepest feelings of your heart to yourself. They tend to stay more pure if you do. There is a wisdom to that.
Was not this ... what we spoke of as the great advantage of wisdom -- to know what is known and what is unknown to us?
The way to test a man's sincerity is to serve him a bad cup of coffee. If he doesn't comment, he is not to be trusted.
If a man has any greatness in him, it comes to light, not in one flamboyant hour, but in the ledger of his daily work.
Grace woke you up this morning, grace started you on your way and grace enabled you to survive until this very moment.
O Lord... Once I wanted You so much I didn't even dare walk past Your house- And now I am not even worthy to be let in
We are completely saddled and bridled, and... the bank is so firmly mounted on us that we must go where it will guide.
When we feel stuck, going nowhere-even starting to slip backward-we may actually be backing up to get a running start.
Those unacquainted with the world take pleasure in intimacy with great men; those who are wiser fear the consequences.
When people do not ignore what they should ignore, but ignore what they should not ignore, this is known as ignorance.
It doesn't matter how much wisdom you have. If you don't have position, you have nothing. That's the tragedy of India.
You only get out of it what you put into it. If you are a sheep in this world, you're not going to get much out of it.
The answer lies within ourselves. If we can't find peace and happiness there, it's not going to come from the outside.
The truth is that you are the instrument of God, that you have to become one with God, that you have to be born again.
If the human intellect functions, it is actually in order to solve the problems which the man's inner destiny sets it.
Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.
A wise man, recognizing that the world is but an illusion, does not act as if it is real, so he escapes the suffering.
We must understand that our education now is going to be sincerity, to speak from your own heart and not from outside.
Men in general judge more from appearances than from reality. All men have eyes, but few have the gift of penetration.
Remember that the storm is a good opportunity for the pine and the cypress to show their strength and their stability.
To embrace the whole world in friendship is wisdom. This wisdom is not changeable like the flowers that bloom and fade.
Few concepts are as basic as the role of workers in our economic structure and their participation in equity ownership.
What can the dove of Jesus give You now but wisdom, exile? Stand and live, The dove has brought an olive branch to eat.
If you do not express your own original ideas, if you do not listen to your own being, you will have betrayed yourself.
Surrendering means cleansing yourself completely, getting completely detached. Detachment is the only way you can rise.
Even when you have doubts, take that step. Take chances. Mistakes are never a failure - they can be turned into wisdom.
I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly dreaming I am a man.
Champions invariably have fervent philosophical beliefs. Philosophy, in its simplest terms, means 'the love of wisdom.'
Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.
Forget about trying to stabilize the personal sense of Self. It is inherently unstable. See that the Self watches this.
Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right.
Educate and inform the whole mass of the people... They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.
My aunt once said that the world would never find peace until men fell at their women's feet and asked for forgiveness.
An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it.
It used to be, it is accepted scientific wisdom the Earth is flat, and this heretic named Galileo was branded a denier.
Knowledge for us means knowledge of the allowance/dispensation (rukhsa). As for strictness, anyone can show strictness.