Native Wisdom Quotes

When mystics use the word love, they use it very carefully - in the deeply spiritual sense, where to love is to know; to love is to act. If you really love, from the depths of your Consciousness, that love gives you a native wisdom. You perceive the needs of others intuitively and clearly, with detachment from any personal desires; and you know how to act creatively to meet those needs, dexterously surmounting any obstacle that comes in the way. Such is the immense, driving power of love. ~ Eknath Easwaran

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

Wisdom isn't to know these words. Wisdom isn't to have ideas or philosophies - those are just thoughts. Wisdom is to be that perfect consciousness. ~ Frederick Lenz

It is from this wide extension of design that so much instruction is derived. It is this which fills the plays of Shakespeare with practical axioms and domestick wisdom. It was said of Euripides, that every verse was a precept and it may be said of Shakespeare, that from his works may be collected a system of civil and oeconomical prudence. Yet his real power is not shown in the splendour of particular passages, but by the progress of his fable, and the tenour of his dialogue; and he that tries to recommend him by select quotations, will succeed like the pedant in Hierocles, who, when he offered his house to sale, carried a brick in his pocket as a specimen. ~ Samuel Johnson

The gifts of the Holy Spirit are testimony, faith, knowledge, wisdom, revelations, miracles, healing, and charity, to name but a few ... ~ D. Todd Christofferson

The thing you let Die within when you are Alive, will be carried with your Soul after Death. ~ Usha Cosmico

If you're perpetually broke, you should be working hard at overcoming stupidity and not getting rich. ~ Taiwo Abraham

Without quietude you cannot enjoy the cool vibrations of the Divine. ~ Nirmala Srivastava

Those who tell of two ways and praise one are recognized as prophets or great teachers. They save men from confusion and hard choices. They offer a single choice that is easy to make because those who do not take the path that is commended to them live a wretched life. To walk far on this path may be difficult, but the choice is easy, and to hear the celebration of this path is pleasant. Wisdom offers simple schemes, but truth is not so simple. ~ Martin Buber

You don't watch many movies, do you?"
"Fraid not," he said. "I never had much interest in movies. 'Sides that, the nearest cinema was almost two hours from my home."
"What about cable TV?"
"No cable."
"Satellite?"
"Nope."
"No Internet either?"
He shook his head.
"Are you serious?" she asked, incredulous. "How did you ever survive?"
"Where I come from, there was always something more interesting to do outside."
"And where was that?" she asked. "Mars? ~ Victoria Vane

Our wisdom lies as much at the mercy of fortune as our possessions do. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Be enthusiastic about life. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

I think the first wisdom is to restrain the tongue. ~ Cato The Younger

Fools may have the greatest repository of knowledge but will never attain Wisdom. ~ Caleb Ricketts

If you don't know the purpose of something, all you can do is misuse it. ~ Craig Groeschel

Wisdom makes it even more likely that you will be exposed to the danger of fornication. ~ Sunday Adelaja

It is wisdom to know others. It is enlightenment to know oneself. ~ Laozi

The will to love, the desire to help, and an open mind with gratitude can unlock the door to eternal happiness. ~ Debasish Mridha

For if by natural instinct or wisdom we could bring ourselves back to the road and escape from error, we would have no need for Christ. But ~ John Calvin

See a day,
not with the open eyes,
but with the open mind from far away. ~ Debasish Mridha

Take good note of it. Nothing is too small. Record even your doubts and guesses. Then afterwards it will be of interest how true you guess. We can learn from failure, not from success! (pg.121) ~ S.G.D. Singh

Just because you're in a situation, doesn't mean you have to be that situation. You're not the situation you're in! ~ K.M. Johnson

A beautiful mind is greater than a deceitful soul. ~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Trouble shared is trouble halved. ~ Lee Iacocca

You will either have value, or be grist for the mill - nothing more. ~ Bryant McGill

Live today as though there is no tomorrow. ~ Debasish Mridha

Rain rain go away, come again another day ~ Rosen Topuzov

He wrote about how stupid the people there could be. I never imagines white people could be stupid. He met people who had never read Shakespear and couldn't form a proper sentence in their own native tongue - though in this respect it looked as if my own daughter might be taking the same route. [29] ~ Tendai Huchu

There is no value for a knowledge that has not been shared. More you share more it will be and will make impacts over impacts, influence one to another in a positive way. ~ Baris Gencel

Wisdom is the mind's currency. ~ Matshona Dhliwayo

feeling shy is simply replacing courage with the feeling and fear of how others will perceive or what they will say about us after and act. Courage dares regardless ~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic side of truth, wisdom, is dying out. ~ Walter Benjamin

You have only mastered peace when you have conquered bitterness,
mastered patience when you have conquered anger,
mastered joy when you have conquered sorrow,
mastered strength when you have conquered pain,
mastered contentment when you have conquered greed,
mastered truth when you have conquered ignorance,
mastered faith when you have conquered doubt,
mastered courage when you have conquered fear,
mastered kindness when you have conquered intolerance,
mastered humility when you have conquered ego,
mastered joy when you have conquered grief,
mastered hope when you have conquered despair,
mastered mercy when you have conquered wrath,
mastered love when you have conquered hate,
mastered life when you have conquered death,
and mastered light when you have conquered darkness. ~ Matshona Dhliwayo

When you realize who you are and why you're here, then peace will be there. ~ Debasish Mridha

Some wisdom you must learn from one who's wise. ~ Euripides

Allergy is not all the time bad, Am Allergic to the Holy Spirit, it makes me want more of God. ~ Samuel Asumadu-Sarkodie

A plea for wisdom in fasting was offered by President Joseph F. Smith, who cautioned that "there is such a thing as overdoing. A man may fast and pray till he kills himself; and there isn't any necessity for it; nor wisdom in it. … The Lord can hear a simple prayer, offered in faith, in half a dozen words, and he will recognize fasting that may not continue more than twenty-four hours, just as readily and as effectually as He will answer a prayer of a thousand words and fasting for a month. … The Lord will accept that which is enough, with a good deal more pleasure and satisfaction than that which is too much and unnecessary. ~ Russell M. Nelson

I've got so much wisdom and have lived through so much life that I feel more powerful than I ever have. ~ Sharon Osbourne

The elderly have weathered enough squalls to know that this one, too, shall pass. They own the courage to be original; they've learned to hold their own values above the conventional wisdom. ~ Sarah Ferguson

As long as there are groupings, there will be disharmony and humanity will suffer. Grouping will be there always, but leaders have to be better to find the harmony. ~ Debasish Mridha

Nothing you build will ever last without a lot of tender-loving-care (TLC). ~ Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

A day without gratitude, kindness, and compassion,
is a day full of useless action. ~ Debasish Mridha

We will always have war until there is enough of every essential to support all lives everywhere around earth. ~ R. Buckminster Fuller

It is the delight of vulgar talent to dazzle and to bind the beholder. But true genius seeks to defend us from itself. True geniuswill not impoverish, but will liberate, and add new sense. If a wise man should appear in our village, he would create, in those who conversed with him, a new consciousness of wealth, by opening their eyes to unobserved advantages; he would establish a sense of immovable equality, calm us with assurances that we could not be cheated; as every one would discern the checks and guarantees of condition. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Sometimes I feel like I'm seeing it all at once and it's too much. My heart fills up like a balloon that's about to burst. ~ Alan Ball

Happy is the bride that the sun shines on. ~ Robert Herrick

It was the Michael Jordan/Nike phenomenon that really let people see that athletes were OK, and black athletes were OK. Defying a previous wisdom - not only that black athletes wouldn't sell in white America, but that the NBA as a predominantly black sport could not sell in white America. ~ David Stern

Never pray to God for release of your problems. Never pray to God to change your life, and to give you something better. This is wrong prayer. If you have to pray to God, pray to God to give you the strength and the wisdom and the courage that you need to be able to handle the situation that you're in. This is correct prayer. ~ Robert Adams