Esoteric Wisdom Quotes

In many ways a child has actually re-educated the parents upon arrival into their lives - when else do adults take the time to appreciate acorns or clouds? ~ Ian-Anthony Finnimore

I asked who are you ? He said I am the one, a clay potter.

I asked what is in the clay ? He said my commanded soul.

And he then said whatever and whoever the clay are made of I am the one who command the soul in it.

And I asked curiously who is he who has born to a virgin who had breath the soul in the clay? and made it fly!

He said shush!!! he is my secret! ~ Aiyaz Uddin

Travel is useful, it exercises the imagination. All the rest is disappointment and fatigue. Our journey is entirely imaginary. That is its strength.
It goes from life to death. People, animals, cities, things, all are imagined. It's a novel, just a fictitious narrative. Littre says so and he's never wrong.
And besides, in the first place, anyone can do as much. You just have to close your eyes.
It's on the other side of life. ~ Louis Ferdinand Celine

Human beings live in their myths. They only endure their realities. ~ Robert Anton Wilson

I am what I need to be when I need to be it" - Han Storm, Chronicles of Han ~ H. Gibson

I don't believe anything, but I have many suspicions. ~ Robert Anton Wilson

The process of dying is falling asleep. The process of death is waking up. ~ J.Adam Snyder

Remember that the Tarot is a great and sacred arcanum - its abuse is an obscenity in the inner and a folly in the outer. It is intended for quite other purposes than to determine when the tall dark man will meet the fair rich widow. ~ Jack Parsons

Inaction in a deed of mercy becomes an action in a deadly sin. ~ Helena Petrovna Blavatsky

A rose by any other name
Would never, never smell the same
And cunning is the nose that knows
An onion that's been called a rose. ~ Wendell Johnson

There are no such things as accidents. Only fate redesigned. ~ Soroosh Shahrivar

Ascension to successive echelons in the pyramid of awareness is an act of inclusion requiring unconditional acceptance of all that lies below. ~ Gerald R. Stanek

Long before there was ever a King James Version of our Bible, there was a gospel truth ... and long before doctrines and denominations, the preeminence of the gospel was already ripe to harvest. Before man had ever thought about creating symbols to represent spiritual things ... there was a gospel. ~ Chandel L. White

Such frankness, even over good tidings, was a further offense to Mr. Fremlin. He felt that it was casual and indecent. Like most countrymen, he had a great respect for traditional mysteries. A little skill decently wrapped up impressed him far more than twice the amount flung nakedly at his feet. Old Dr. Milsom had satisfied his sense of propriety. Never, never would he have told a patient whether or not she was going to live or die; the temperature was his secret, even the name of the complain transpired only in dark hints. Standing by the bedside he would shake his head and purse his lips and consult his gold turnip-watch, so that you felt you were getting the benefit of a rare and esoteric wisdom. ~ Dennis Parry

The further in you go, the bigger it gets. ~ John Crowley

To acquire the full consciousness of self is to know oneself so different from others that no longer feels allied with men except by purely animal contacts: nevertheless, among souls of this degree, there is an ideal fraternity based on differences,
while society fraternity is based on resemblances.
The full consciousness of self can be called originality of soul, -and all this is said only to point out the group of rare beings to which Andre Gide belongs.
The misfortune of these beings, when they express themselves, is that they do it with such odd gestures that men fear to approach them; their life of social contacts must often revolve in the brief circle of ideal fraternities; or, when the mob consents to admit such souls, it is as curiosities or museum objects. Their glory is, finally, to be loved from afar & almost understood, as parchments are seen & read above sealed cases. ~ Remy De Gourmont

Moonlight floods the whole sky from horizon to horizon;
How much it can fill your room depends on its windows. ~ Rumi

Unless it is relevant and accurate, knowledge can be the sinking ship the fool insists is sea-worthy, because knowledge often masquerades as wisdom. ~ Anonymous

Are you so busy fighting you cannot see your own ship has set sail? ~ Uncle Iroh

Mastery of impulse is achieved through taking pauses during life's contrasting situations. Mastery of impulse is about developing strong willpower that can be used to redirect the flow of energy in any situation. Mastery of impulse is about responding to the world with a sense of reason and peace. ~ Alaric Hutchinson

It is much easier to be kind than cruel. ~ Debasish Mridha

This life is not real. I conquered the world and it did not bring me satisfaction. ~ Muhammad Ali

True wisdom is gentle and relevant. It comes to us when we are ready to hear it through a conduit we perceive as safe and loving. ~ Danielle Boonstra

Our spiritual traditions have carried virtues across time. They are tools for the art of living. They are pieces of intelligence about human behavior that neuroscience is now exploring with new words and images: what we practice, we become. What's true of playing the piano or throwing a ball also holds for our capacity to move through the world mindlessly and destructively or generously and gracefully. I've come to think of virtues and rituals as spiritual technologies for being our best selves in flesh and blood, time and space. There are superstar virtues that come most readily to mind and can be the work of a day or a lifetime - love, compassion, forgiveness. And there are gentle shifts of mind and habit that make those possible, working patiently through the raw materials of our lives. ~ Krista Tippett

When stress is the disease, then forgiveness and laughter are the medicine. ~ Debasish Mridha

Young Bindo Altovini, looking out from time, made a perfect coalition with the mountains, the sky, and the tall redheaded woman who had bent over just slightly to examine a raging battle that was long over. Alessandro imagined that Bindo Altovini was saying, half with longing, half with delight, "These are the things in which I was so helplessly caught up, the waves that took me, what I loved. When light filled my eyes and I was restless and could move, I knew not what all the color was about, but only that I had a passion to see. And now that I am still, I pass on to you my liveliness and my life, for you will be taken, as once I was, and although you must fight beyond your capacity to fight and feel beyond your capacity to feel, remember that it ends in perfect peace, and you will be as still and content as am I, for whom centuries are not even seconds."

In the eyes of Bindo Altoviti, Alessandro saw wisdom and amusement, and he knew why the subjects of paintings and photographs seemed to look from the past as if with clairvoyance. Even brutal and impatient men, when frozen in time, assumed expressions of extraordinary compassion, as if they had reflected the essence of their redemption back into the photograph. In a sense they were still living. ~ Mark Helprin

Existence is governed by its own law. Here, the things impermanent by nature
are bound to meet their end. Hence, with the passage of time, not only Ravana's
Lanka but "Krishna's" Dwarka also sinks. ~ Deep Trivedi

The diamond does not need to prove its worth. It is in fact the person who must teach him/herself to recognise the worth of real diamonds. A person must study this in school. A diamond does not go to school to learn how to prove its worth. It is the person who must go to school in order to recognise the worth of a diamond. Dear diamonds everywhere, stop trying to go to school. The worthy will recognise your worth. ~ C. JoyBell C.

What you are afraid of is also afraid of you; face your fear! ~ Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

When we learn to use the power of love then the world will see the peace. ~ Debasish Mridha

The trivial preoccupations of daily life are not enough for man; wisdom too is a native hunger. ~ Paramahansa Yogananda

What do you have to surrender? A drop has to dissolve into the ocean to become the ocean. And a drop cannot be greater than the ocean, can it? So what is the surrendering? It is the surrendering of our conditioning, of our ego and the artificial barriers we have built around us. ~ Nirmala Srivastava

Would you not agree that relationships are built on trust? Would you not also agree that most individuals think more in terms of "me-my wants, my needs, my rights? What would wisdom dictate - would it not direct us to focus on trust-building principles and sacrificing 'me' for 'we'?" ~ Stephen Covey

I walk into this room
All eyes on me now
But I do not know the people inside
Look straight through me these eyes
Seeking more wisdom
Than I have to give away ~ Dave Matthews

Never underestimate your power to change yourself; never overestimate your power to change others. ~ Wayne W. Dyer

I got a few gray hairs to testify to my wisdom, 2 grand babies & long. black dido named Harry ... ~ Zane

If your aims are lofty, your achievements are bound to be great. ~ Radhe Maa

I am grateful to the Lord for hundred-fold blessings. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Intelligence is a mere means of building ones focus,it's knowledge,wisdom and understanding that is the factor that attributes to one achieving ones position in society to gain ones place to be a leader and a guide ~ Marcelle Hinkson

Proverbial wisdom counsels against risk and change. But sitting ducks fare worst of all. ~ Mason Cooley

Silence can answer the question words may fail to answer. If you want to know what silence can do, keep silence! ~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Yasunari Kawabata wrote: "When speaking of those who take their own lives, it is always most dignified to use silence or at least restrained language, for the ones left most vulnerable and most deeply hurt by such an occurrence can feel oppressed by the louder assertions of understanding, wisdom and depth of remorse foisted upon them by others. One must ask: Who is best served by speculation? Who is really able to comprehend? Perhaps we must, as human beings, continue to try and comprehend, but we will fall short. And the falling short will deepen our sense of emptiness. ~ Howard Norman

A reason for using public transport that I've never heard mentioned before is the added time for thinking.
By driving, you, and everyone else who is driving, are wasting valuable time that could have been used for thinking.
For a single person that might not be much or significant, but across the population it could mean the difference between tens or even hundreds of years of advancement difference by just taking the bus rather than driving. ~ Rosen Topuzov

How often it is that a small action becomes great by its intention. And how often it is that a great action becomes small by its intention. ~ Abdullah Ibn Mubarak

It is a common sentence that knowledge is power; but who hath duly considered or set forth the power of ignorance? Knowledge slowly builds up what ignorance in an hour pulls down. ~ George Eliot

You must teach your children that the ground beneath their feet is the ashes of your grandfathers. So that they will respect the land, tell your children that the earth is rich with the lives of our kin. Teach your children what we have taught our children, that the earth is our mother. Whatever befalls the earth befalls the sons of the earth. If men spit upon the ground, they spit upon themselves. ~ Chief Seattle

There is great power in our words, because they
are thoughts to which we have given additional energy by speaking them aloud so another person can know them. ~ Molly Friedenfeld

To be happy, follow the heart not the thoughts. ~ Debasish Mridha

Knowing ... that the struggle to create a different current reality is to no avail helps keep the attention present even when experience is painful ... the same wisdom that keeps the attention alert and present in painful circumstances includes the awareness ... that human beings feel about things, that we lament or yearn or grieve even when we understand that things can't be different. [p. 33] ~ Sylvia Boorstein

Focus on what it is that you want, set a realistic goal. Start setting goals that you feel you can accomplish. Don't try to go right to the top in one leap. Every time you accomplish a goal you develop the strength and wisdom to accomplish the next one. ~ Chuck Norris

The wise through excess of wisdom is made a fool. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Confident is spirit of faith ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Wisdom is a dreadful thing when it brings no knowledge to its possessor. ~ Sophocles

To account nothing of one's self, and to think always kindly and highly of others, this is great and perfect wisdom. ~ Thomas A Kempis

These are the signs of a wise man: to reprove nobody, to praise nobody, to blame nobody, nor even to speak of himself or his own merits. ~ Epictetus

Some look at life, for their entire life, before they actually see. ~ Nikki Rowe

Humility is more powerful than egoistic pride. Water is more powerful than the strongest cliff and Love is more powerful than might. ~ Radhe Maa

Don't try to find a reason to be kind, just be kind, compassionate, and make a difference. ~ Debasish Mridha

Trust your sacred-soul. It is truest divine self. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

To have the spirit of youth and the wisdom from age. Is to have used the eternal fountain of life within our very souls. Not for an instant but for a lifetime. Amen. ~ Ivan Alexander Pozo-Illas

Have a great imagination and get out of the prison of pervasive reality. ~ Debasish Mridha

Knowing the answer is knowledge and knowing the question is wisdom. ~ Debasish Mridha

The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language, and no single language is capable of expressing all forms and degrees of human comprehension. ~ Ezra Pound

I think the reason why people's relationships fail, really, is due to the fact that people are always putting their best feet forward all the time and not letting others actually "meet" them. The "meeting" part tends to happen later on and it shocks and disappoints people who have already bought into the best that was put forward. Why not meet people first as who you really are, then help one another, build up one another, encourage and sculpt each other ... grow and become, together! Why can't people do that? Your best foot needs to be kept right beside you, right beside the other one. ~ C. JoyBell C.

I have met many Masters and most have an abundance of flaws and social failings. However, the one thing that separates them from the rest of us is their fearless ability to walk their own path regardless of the opinions of others. ~ Gary Hopkins