Quotes of: Wisdom-teeth Keyword

To be able to enjoy fully the many good things the world has to offer, we must be detached from them. To be detached does not mean to be indifferent or uninterested. It means to be non-possessive. Life is a gift to be grateful for and not a property ...

Bread for the Journey: A Daybook of Wisdom and Faith

There are many forms of poverty: economic poverty, physical poverty, emotional poverty, mental poverty, and spiritual poverty. As long as we relate primarily to each other's wealth, health, stability, intelligence, and soul strength, we cannot develo...

Bread for the Journey: A Daybook of Wisdom and Faith

The many contradictions in our lives – such as being home while feeling homeless, being busy while feeling bored, being popular while feeling lonely, being believers while feeling many doubts – can frustrate, irritate, and even discourage us. The...

Bread for the Journey: A Daybook of Wisdom and Faith

Many voices ask for our attention. There is a voice that says, 'Prove that you are a good person.' Another voice says, 'You’d better be ashamed of yourself.' There also is a voice that says, 'Nobody really cares about you,' and one that says, 'Be s...

Bread for the Journey: A Daybook of Wisdom and Faith

I think this was a nice idea we had in this country and a nice landscape to experiment with. But I think there comes a time in almost any experimentation or idea, where you have to evaluate it, maybe our time has come. In the context of the real worl...

Ancient Gonzo Wisdom: Interviews with Hunter S. Thompson

The things that most deserve our gratitude we just take for granted. Without air we cannot live for more than a minute or two. Everyday we are breathing in and breathing out, but do we ever feel grateful to the air? If we do not drink water, we canno...

The Jewels of Happiness: Inspiration and Wisdom to Guide Your Life-Journey

Those dreaming of the perfect match are outnumbered by those who don't really want it at all, though perhaps they can't admit it. After all, our culture makes individual freedom, autonomy and fulfillment the very highest values, and thoughtful people...

The Meaning of Marriage: Facing the Complexities of Commitment with the Wisdom of God

In any relationship, there will be frightening spells in which your feelings of love dry up. And when that happens you must remember that the essence of marriage is that it is a covenant, a commitment, a promise of future love. So what do you do? You...

The Meaning of Marriage: Facing the Complexities of Commitment with the Wisdom of God

But we as a culture have lost the deep intuitive understanding that Creation exists on many levels. We have succumbed to the scientific viewpoint. Nothing characterizes ‘the modern world’ more completely than the loss of faith in Transcendence, o...

Love, Wisdom, and God: The Longing of the Western Soul

We were fond together because of the sweep of open places, the taste of wide winds, the sunlight, and the hopes in which we worked. The morning freshness of the world-to-be intoxicated us. We were wrought up with ideas inexpressible and vaporous, but...

Seven Pillars of Wisdom: A Triumph

The Church makes no man less free than he was before. But we chiefly value freedom in order to give it away; every man who loves surrenders his freedom, whether his passion be the love of a woman, the love of a cause, or the love of God. . . Hence: "...

Peace of Soul: Timeless Wisdom on Finding Serenity and Joy by the Century's Most Acclaimed Catholic Bishop

Quoting from Thomas Merton Dialogues With Silence The true contemplative is not one who prepares his mind for a particular message that he wants or expects to hear, but is one who remains empty because he knows that he can never expect to anticipate ...

The Wisdom of Yoga: A Seeker's Guide to Extraordinary Living

Culture is not trivial. It is not a decoration or artifice, the songs we sing or even the prayers we chant. It is a blanket of comfort that gives meaning to lives. It is a body of knowledge that allows the individual to make sense out of the infinite...

The Wayfinders: Why Ancient Wisdom Matters in the Modern World

Definitions from Mulla Do-Piaza Wisdom: Something you can learn without knowing it.

Caravan of Dreams

Stupidity and wisdom meet in the same centre of sentiment and resolution, in the suffering of human accidents.

The Complete Essays

Learn from yesterday, live for today, look to tomorrow, rest this afternoon.

Charlie Brown's Little Book of Wisdom

A person of little knowledge Grows old as a plough-ox grows old. His fleshes increases; His wisdom does not increase.

The Dhammapada

Devi-Mahatmayam has special meaning for spirituality, With illumination, wisdom, strength - to freedom finally! - 150 -

Devi Mahatmayam in English Rhyme

When we are attuned to our inner voice, life becomes art and art becomes life.

Divine Attunement: Music as a Path to Wisdom

No, that is the great fallacy: the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful.

A Farewell to Arms

We work for peace every time we exercise authority with wisdom and authentic love.

Finding Peace