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The habit of quietly absorbing the shocks will be quite a great help to stabilize pure awareness. The technique is: Just feel not disturbed. The disturbing influence could be a blessing of Mother Nature to develop the habit to make best use out of every situation. Every situation is God Sent. With this supreme wisdom of life any situation can be used to our advantage and regarded as a blessing of Mother Nature.

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
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After one arrives at the summit, after going through the total transformation of being...there is yet one more step to the completion of that journey: the return to the valley below, to the everyday world. Who it is that returns is not who began the climb in the first place. The being that comes back is quietness itself, is compassion and wisdom, is the truth of the ages. Whatever humble or elevated position that being holds within the community, he or she becomes a light for others on the way a statement of the freedom that comes from having touched the top of the mountain.

Ram Dass
9

To see the unreal is wisdom. Beyond this lies the inexpressible.

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
8

Prayer within breath is silence, love within infinity is silence, Wisdom without word is silence, compassion without aim is silence, action without doer is silence, smiling with all existence is silence

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
8

There is no greater wealth than wisdom, no greater poverty than ignorance; no greater heritage than culture and no greater support than consultation.

Imam Ali
8

By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.

Confucius
8

Patience is the companion of wisdom.

Saint Augustine
8

Nowness or the magic of the present moment is what joins the wisdom of the past with the present.

Chogyam Trungpa
8

Someday, in the distant future, our grandchildren's grandchildren will develop a new equivalent of our classrooms. They will spend many hours in front of boxes with fires glowing within. May they have the wisdom to know the difference between light and knowledge.

Plato
8

You get wisdom from suffering. You are alone with God when you are sick, in the cremation ground or hospital. You call on God when you suffer.

Neem Karoli Baba
7

Truth is superior to man's wisdom.

Mahatma Gandhi
7

The philosophy of life is this: Life is not a struggle, not a tension Life is bliss. It is eternal wisdom, eternal existence.

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
7

Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance.

Francis of Assisi
7

The true Wisdom is in recognizing our own ignorance.

Socrates
7

Knowing thyself is the height of wisdom.

Socrates
7

The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their proper name.

Confucius
7

It is possible that the meaning of wisdom in Hebrew indicates aptitude for stratagems and the application of thought in such a way that the stratagems and ruses may be used in achieving either rational or moral virtues, or in achieving skill in a practical art, or in working evil and wickedness.

Maimonides
7

The Great Being saith: Human utterance is an essence which aspireth to exert its influence and needeth moderation. As to its influence, this is conditional upon refinement which in turn is dependent upon hearts which are detached and pure. As to its moderation, this hath to be combined with tact and wisdom as prescribed in the Holy Scriptures and Tablets.

Bahá'u'lláh
7

The cure to combat the three Ss- stress, strain, and speed- can be found in three Ws- the work of devoted practice, the wisdom that comes of understanding the self and the world, and worship because ultimately surrendering to what we cannot control allows the ego to relax and lose the anxiety of its own infinitesimally small self in the infinitude of the divine.

B.K.S. Iyengar
7

You must enshrine in your hearts the spiritual urge towards light and love, Wisdom and Bliss!

Sathya Sai Baba
6

Through the portals of silence the healing sun of wisdom and peace will shine upon you.

Paramahamsa Yogananda
6

When I see I am nothing, that is wisdom. When I see I am everything, that is love. My life is a movement between these two.

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
6

Open the gates of wisdom, tear the veil of ignorance, enter the abode of Divine Bliss. Rest in peace forever.

Sathya Sai Baba
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