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Self-realization means to know truth through yourself, and not through others. By seeking God first, through Self-realization, all things—strength, power, prosperity, wisdom, health, and immortality—will be added unto you.

Paramahamsa Yogananda
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Love combined with wisdom is bliss, and that is devotion. Devotion is a strong bond, a sense of belongingness. Everybody is born with it. It’s just like becoming a child again.

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
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When Reason died, then Wisdom was born.

Sri Aurobindo
19

Knowing that you are nothing is Wisdom, Knowing that you are everything is Love.

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
19

Wisdom is rooted in watching with affection the way people grow.

Confucius
19

Happiness is within and the source is the center of consciousness, love, and wisdom.

Swami Rama
19

Wisdom is knowing what you don't know.

Socrates
19

True wisdom lies in one's confession about the limits of one's knowledge.

Socrates
19

Knowledge is an addiction, as drink; knowledge does not bring understanding. Knowledge can be taught, but not wisdom; there must be freedom from knowledge for the coming of wisdom.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
19

Knowledge of the soul is the only universal truth and the only wisdom - all other knowledge is transient.

Plato
19

When I was young, I believed that life might unfold in an orderly way, according to my hopes and expectations. But now I understand that the Way winds like a river, always changing, ever onward.. My journeys revealed that the Way itself creates the warrior; that every path leads to peace, every choice to wisdom. And that life has always been, and will always be, arising in Mystery.

Socrates
19

Man needs now no more degrees, but character. No more study, but wisdom.

Sivananda Saraswati
18

Wisdom is to transform curses into blessings, challenges into opportunities; it is just a matter of how we interpret the situations.

Radhanath Swami
18

Kriya practice opens the Eye of Wisdom.

Lahiri Mahasaya
17

Wisdom is knowing I am nothing, Love is knowing I am everything, and between the two my life moves.

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
17

It is not a pumping-in from the outside that gives wisdom; it is the power and extent of your inner receptivity that determines how much you can attain of true knowledge, and how rapidly. You can quicken your evolution by awakening and increasing the receptive power of your brain cells.

Paramahamsa Yogananda
17

I relax and cast aside all mental burdens, allowing God to express through me His perfect love, peace, and wisdom.

Paramahamsa Yogananda
17

Wisdom comes with the ability to be still. Just look and just listen. No more is needed. Being still, looking, and listening activates the non-conceptual intelligence within you. Let stillness direct your words and actions.

Eckhart Tolle
17

A kindly tongue is the lodestone of the hearts of men. It is the bread of the spirit, it clotheth the words with meaning, it is the fountain of the light of wisdom and understanding...

Bahá'u'lláh
17

A library of wisdom, is more precious than all wealth, and all things that are desirable cannot be compared to it. Whoever therefore claims to be zealous of truth, of happiness, of wisdom or knowledge, must become a lover of books.

Plato
17

All that you seek is already within you. In Hinduism it is called the Atman, in Buddhism the pure Buddha-Mind. Christ said, 'the kingdom of heaven is within you.' Quakers call it the ‘still small voice within.’ This is the space of full awareness that is in harmony with all the universe, and thus is wisdom itself.

Ram Dass
17

A child is born on that day, and at that hour when the celestial rays are in mathematical harmony with his individual Karma. His horoscope is a challenging portrait, revealing his unalterable past and its probable future result. But the natal chart can be rightly interpreted only by men of intuitive wisdom - These are few.

Sri Yukteswar Giri
17

Lord Krishna... proclaims Self-realization, true wisdom, as the highest branch of all human knowledge-the king of all sciences, the very essence of dharma ("religion")-for it alone permanently uproots the cause of man's threefold suffering and reveals to him his true nature of Bliss. Self-realization is yoga or "oneness" with truth-the direct perception or experience of truth by the all-knowing intuitive faculty of the soul.

Paramahamsa Yogananda
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