Hindu Wisdom

When the eyes and ears are open, even the leaves on the trees teach like pages from the Scriptures.
— Kabir quoted in Legacy of the Heart by Wayne Muller

Buddhist Wisdom

Praise and blame, gain and loss, pleasure and sorrow come and go like the wind. To be happy, rest like a great tree in the midst of them all.
— Buddha in Buddha’s Little Instruction Book by Jack Kornfield

Catholic Wisdom

It is our duty as men and women to proceed as though the limits of our abilities do not exist.
— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin in Zen and the Art of Making a Living by Laurence G, Boldt

Spiritual Wisdom

A soulmate is someone who has locks that fit our keys, and keys to fit our locks. When we feel safe enough to open the locks, our truest selves step out and we can be completely and honestly who we are; we can be loved for who we are and not for who we are pretending to be.
— Richard Bach quotes in Invisible Means of Support by Dennis F. Augustine

Psychological Wisdom

This active quality of many working together, each in his own depths, each giving his silent and psychic support to those around him, is a great source of psychic energy. In an intangible way it generates a power very much like a prayer does.
— Ira Progoff quoted in Passage of the Soul by James Roose Evans

Literary Wisdom

Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is the richness of self.
— May Sarton quoted in Fifty Days of Solitude by Doris Grumbach

Artistic Wisdom

Life is an art, not a science.
You make it up as you go along.
— Al Hirschfeld, American caricaturist


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