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The goal of our life’s effort is to reach the other shore, Nirvana. Prajna paramita, the true wisdom of life, is that in each step of the way, the other shore is actually reached.
Sep 10, 2025
Seconds of focused pleasureable visualization is stronger than 2000 hours of working to obtain a goal
If you are missing out on the natural joy and wisdom of life, it is because you have been taught to ignore it....Reconnecting with nature consists of bringing into your consciousness a sensory way of thinking and relating with which you are born
But we make such mistakes all the time, all through our lives. Wisdom, I suppose, is seeing this and acting upon it before it is too late. But it is often too late, isn't it? - and those things that we should have said are unsaid, and remain unsaid for ever.
When we stay close to the wisdom of our knowing, seeking solutions to our problems in the sanctuary of the heart and not in the vanity of the mind, then we can pretty much trust in the unfolding, mysterious wisdom of life.
Life unexamined, is not worth living.
Kindness is the truest wisdom of life and we cannot go far without it.
The mind usually says, “I know, I know, I know.” But the “don’t-know mind” is where wisdom lives.
In the deep, unwritten wisdom of life there are many things to be learned that cannot be taught. We never know them by hearing them spoken, but we grow into them by experience and recognize them through understanding. Understanding is a great experience in itself, but it does not come through instruction.
If you are a good student of life, wisdom becomes your rain, falling heavily on your mind!
The world is hard and cruel. We are here none knows why, and we go none knows whither. We must be very humble. We must see the beauty of quietness. We must go through life so inconspicuously that Fate does not notice us. And let us seek the love of simple, ignorant people. Their ignorance is better than all our knowledge. Let us be silent, content in our little corner, meek and gentle like them. That is the wisdom of life.
The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.
The magic, the wonder, the mystery and the innocence of a childs heart are the seeds of creativity that will heal the world. I really believe that. What we need to learn from children isnt childish. Being with them connects us to the deeper wisdom of life, which is everpresent and only asks to be lived. They know the way to solutions that lie waiting to be recognized within our own hearts.
For a long time it had seemed to me that life was about to begin -- real life. But there was always some obstacle in the way, something to be gotten through first, some unfinished business, time still to be served, a debt to be paid. Then life would begin. At last it dawned on me that these obstacles were my life.
We will often find compensation if we think more of what life has given us and less about what life has taken away.
Once you realize that the road is the goal and that you are always on the road, not to reach a goal, but to enjoy its beauty and its wisdom, life ceases to be a task and becomes natural and simple, in itself an ecstasy.
No man was ever wise by chance.
Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.
I honor the wisdom of life. I learn from life in all its forms. The tree teaches me. The sparrow and the wren sing my song. I am open to the lessons Life brings me from the earth. I learn from the wind, from the sun, from the small flowers, and from the stars. I walk without arrogance. I learn from all I encounter. I open my mind and heart to the guidance and love that come to me from the natural world.
Culture, far from giving us freedom, only develops, as it advances, new necessities; the fetters of the physical close more tightly around us, so that the fear of loss quenches even the ardent impulse toward improvement, and the maxims of passive obedience are held to be the highest wisdom of life.
Choose a career you love and you will never have to go to work.
Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.
When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.
Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.
Try out your ideas by visualizing them in action.
Whoever you are, there is some younger person who thinks you are perfect. There is some work that will never be done if you don't do it. There is someone who would miss you if you were gone. There is a place that you alone can fill.
The only limits on human achievement are self-imposed.
The goal is the same: life itself; and the price is the same; life itself.
To trust yourself to test your limits. That is the courage to succeed.
Convictions are the mainsprings of action, the driving powers of life. What a man lives are his convictions.
The proof of a well-trained mind is that it rejoices in which is good and grieves at the opposite.
The truly important things in life - love, beauty, and one's own uniqueness - are constantly being overlooked.
People fail forward to success.
Each of us is great insofar as we perceive and act on the infinite possibilities which lie undiscovered and unrecognized about us.
How lovely to think that no one need wait a moment, we can start now, start slowly changing the world! How lovely that everyone, great and small, can make their contribution toward introducing justice straightaway... And you can always, always give something, even if it is only kindness!
We tend to get what we expect.
The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
The body moves naturally, automatically, without any personal intervention or awareness. If we think too much, our actions become slow and hesitant.
Anybody can do anything that he imagines.
I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live up to what light I have.
If I accept you as you are, I will make you worse; however, if I treat you as though you are what you are capable of becoming, I help you become that.
The harder I work the more I live.
We can accomplish almost anything within our ability if we but think we can.
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.
The Christian religion seems to have fulfilled its great biological purpose, in so far as we are able to judge. It has led human thought to independence, and has lost its significance, therefore, to a yet undetermined extent.... It seems to me that we might still make use in some way of its form of thought, and especially of its great wisdom of life, which for two thousand years has proven to be particularly efficacious.
Ability has nothing to do with opportunity.
All's well that ends well.
In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.