Wisdom revealed...

Some provocative quotes:

Beauty is truth, truth beauty, - that is all
Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.
~John Keats, Ode to a Grecian Urn (1819)

Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it.
~Andre Gide

Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.
~Aesop

Only that in you which is me can hear what I'm saying.
~Baba Ram Dass

If you think you're free, there's no escape possible.
~Baba Ram Dass

Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.
~Ludwig Börne

Death is not the opposite of life. Life has no opposite. The opposite of death is birth. Life is eternal.
~Eckhart Tolle

Before enlightenment - chop wood, carry water.
After enlightenment - chop wood, carry water.
~Zen Proverb

The obstacle is the path.
~Zen Proverb

What shall it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul.
~Yeshua Ben Yosef

Death is not the opposite of life. Life has no opposite. The opposite of death is birth. Life is eternal.
~Eckhart Tolle

What do people gain from all the toil at which they toil under the sun? A generation goes, and a generation comes, but the earth remains forever... What has been is what shall be, and what has been done is what shall be done; there is nothing new under the sun.
~Shlomo HaMelech

The most excellent Jihad is that for the conquest of self... The ink of the scholar is more holy than the blood of the martyr.
~Prophet Muhammad

The range of what we think and do is limited by what we fail to notice. And because we fail to notice that we fail to notice there is little we can do to change until we notice how failing to notice shapes our thoughts and deeds.
~Daniel Goleman

Our problems cannot be solved at the same level of awareness that created them.
~Albert Einstein