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Wisdom Quotes: Inspirational Spiritual Sayings

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I've gathered together some of the best quotes of the wisest people around. I hope you find them as inspirational as I do. Meet people like Karen Armstrong, Khalil Gibran, Jiddu Krishnamurti and H.P. Blavatsky.

David Bohm wisdom quote

Spiritual wisdom quotes about Thought, Thinking, Mind

Thought runs you. Thought, however, gives false info that you are running it, that you are the one who controls thought. Whereas actually thought is the one which controls each one of us.

David Bohm

Karen Armstrong wisdom quote

The spiritual message of the stranger, the Other

And sometimes it's the very otherness of a stranger, someone who doesn't belong to our ethnic or ideological or religious group, an otherness that can repel us initially, but which can jerk us out of our habitual selfishness, and give us intonations of that sacred otherness, which is God.

Karen Armstrong

Life is about to begin... or is it?

Father Albert D'Souza spiritual wisdom saying

For a long time it has seemed to me that life was about to begin; Real life. But there was always some obstacle in the way, something to be got 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.

Khalil Gibran wisdom quote

Wisdom & religion in daily life

Your daily life is your temple and your religion.
Whenever you enter into it take with you your all.
Take the plough and the forge and the mallet and the lute,
The things you have fashioned in necessity or for delight.
For in reverie you cannot rise above your achievements nor fall lower than your failures.
And take with you all men:
For in adoration you cannot fly higher than their hopes nor humble yourself lower than their despair.

Kahlil Gibran

Mabel Collins

Theosophical wisdom insight

To obtain the pure silence necessary for the disciple, the heart and emotions, the brain and its intellectualisms, have to be put aside. Both are but mechanisms, which will perish with the span of man's life. It is the essence beyond, that which is the motive power, and makes man live, that is now compelled to rouse itself and act.

Mabel Collins

Kindness

Inspirational quote about inner spiritual growth and development

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Jiddu Krishnamurti wisdom quote

Spiritual wisdom quotation

Conventional education makes independent thinking extremely difficult. Conformity leads to mediocrity. To be different from the group or to resist environment is not easy and is often risky as long as we worship success.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Helena Petrovna Blavatsky wisdom

Truth saying

"Error runs down an inclined plane, while the Truth has to laboriously climb its way up hill." Old truisms are often the wisest. The human mind can hardly remain entirely free from bias, and decisive opinions are often formed before a thorough examination of a subject from all its aspects has been made.

Blavatsky

Anthony de Mello wisdom quote

What is love?"

"The total absence of fear," said the Master.

"What is it we fear?"

"Love," said the Master.

Anthony de Mello

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Robert Frager on service

Sufi wisdom quote

To serve others with gratitude for the opportunity of service is good adab [in Sufism]. A dervish seeks opportunities to serve, knowing that service is an essential part of the spiritual path.

Some years ago, an American dervish was visiting Turkey, and he spent all his free time in Sheikh Muzaffer's bookstore. When a boy came to the shop with tea for everyone, the American dervish immediately pulled out his wallet and paid it. At lunch time, he rushed to pay for the lunches brought to the store. As he reached for his wallet a third time to pay for soft drinks, Sheikh Muzaffer scolded him, "Do you want to take all the benefits of serving others today? Don't be selfish; give someone else a chance to pay!" Serving others is like serving God.

Robert Frager

Dalai Lama wisdom quote

Inspiration from Tibetan Buddhism

"The very purpose of religion is to control yourself, not to criticize others. Rather, we must criticize ourselves. How much am I doing about my anger? About my attachment, about my hatred, about my pride, my jealousy? These are the things which we must check in daily life."

Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatzo

We all want Love - isn't it greedy? (my paraphrase)

Hafiz (Persian poet) quote. Sufi wisdom

Admit something: Everyone you see, you say to them, "Love me". Of course you do not do this out loud, otherwise someone would call the cops. Still, though, think about this, this great pull in us to connect.

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Thich Nhat Hanh wisdom quote

Zen Buddhist inspiration

Many of us have realized in the last few days that silence can be enjoyable. We realize that there are many things that we do not have to say, and that then we can reserve the time and energy to do other things that can help us to look more deeply into ourselves and things around us.

Thich Nhat Hanh

Goodness

Spiritual wisdom saying

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Annie Besant

Theosophical insight

Control of the tongue! Vital for the man who would try to tread the Path, for no harsh or unkind word, no hasty impatient phrase, may escape from the tongue which is consecrated to service, and which must not injure even an enemy; for that which wounds has no place in the Kingdom of Love.

Annie Besant

Siddharta Gautama Buddha

Buddhist saying

"He who holds back rising anger like a rolling chariot, him I call a real driver; other people are but holding the reins"

Gautama Buddha, the founder of Buddhism

N. Sri Ram

Theosophical wisdom quote

Man is more than his environment. It is from the innate quality of the Spirit in him, his inner storehouse, that he draws those ideas, his intuitions, which unify his perceptions of the external world instantaneously with a value which is qualitative and not quantitative, and which he embodies in the works of his culture - those achievements which belong not only to one particular time but to all times, and mark the path of his upward progress.

N. Sri Ram

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    waldenthree.net Nov 25, 2011 @ 7:55 pm | delete
    valuable quotes. Wisdom is also a function of culture and heritage. Thanks.
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    Sherrie Hatfield Apr 26, 2010 @ 12:13 am | delete
    Love what you have collected here from what I call the wisdom within all people. I love how it shows its face no matter the time, gender, religion,or culture.
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Author of this page: Katinka Hesselink

Author of this page: Katinka HesselinkKatinka Hesselink has been fascinated with religion for as long as she can remember. She started studying theosophy and the world religions in earnest when she was 19. She loves reading books about any and all the spiritual traditions, and reviews them online.

She even did a stint of university studying World Religion, specializing in Buddhism and Indian religions, but quit a few papers short of her bachelors degree.

She has gathered inspiring quotes and informative articles on Buddhism, Sufism, Mystic Christianity and of course theosophy on her website Katinka Hesselink Net. On her popular spiritual blog All Considering she shares her knowledge, experiences and thoughts on spiritual topics.

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