Wednesday, March 21, 2012

Words of Wisdom

"What we think is less than what we know;What we know is less than what we love;What we love is so much less than what there is.And to that precise extent we are so much less than what we are."—R.D. Laing (The Politics of Experience)

"When we love, we are the universe and the universe lives in us." —O. Pirmez

"The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding." —Leonardo da Vinci

"You live in illusions and the appearance of things. There is a Reality, you are that Reality. When you recognize this you will realize you are nothing, and being nothing,you are everything. That is all." —Kalu Rinpoche

"If the doors of perception were cleansed, every thing would appear to man as it is,infinite." —William Blake

"Man has no body distinct from his soul; for that called body is a portion of soul discerned by the five senses, the chief inlets of soul in this age." —William Blake


"Gratitude is the heart's memory." —French Proverb

"My religion is simple, my religion is kindness." —Dalai Llama

"Faith is like a toothbrush. Every person should have one and use it regularly, but he shouldn't try to use someone else's." —J. G. Stipe

"The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult and left untried." —G.K.Chesterton

"Do not dwell in the past, do not dwell in the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment." —Buddha

"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us."

"This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness." —The Dalai Lama

"We must never cease from exploration. And the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we began and to know the place for the first time." —T.S. Eliot

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