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A Pearl of Wisdom and Enlightenment

Description: What is Wisdom? Enlightenment? Mysticism? Beauty? Self-Knowledge? Truth? Perennial Philosophy? Love?



Believe those who are seeking the truth; doubt those who find it.
André Gide.



And resting in the ocean, dipped into the sea, I find glimmers of One Taste everywhere.
Ken Wilber.



Truth is a pathless land.
Jiddu Krishnamurti.



I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.
Albert Einstein.



Make a snake and put it up on a pole;
anyone who is bitten can look at it and live.
Numbers 21:8.

I prefer the folly of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.
Anatole France.



Follow your Bliss.
Joseph Campbell.



Eternity is a mere moment, just long enough for a joke.
Hermann Hesse.


Artwork by Alex Grey.
Also author of "Oversoul", depicted above.

Be ye lamps unto yourselves.
Siddhartha Gautama Buddha.


Artwork by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry.

"Goodbye," said the fox.
"And now here is my secret, a very simple secret:

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly.
What is essential is invisible to the eye."

"What is essential is invisible to the eye,"
the Little Prince repeated, so that he would be sure to remember.

"It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important."

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. - The Little Prince.

Before enlightenment, I chopped wood and carried water.
After enlightenment, I chopped wood and carried water.
Zen proverb.



Laughter relieves us of superfluous energy, which, if it remained unused, might become negative, that is, poison.
Laughter is the antidote.
George Ivanovitch Gurdjieff.



Enlightenment doesn't exist. To realize this, is Enlightenment.
Nisargadatta Maharaj.



Contraria sunt complementa.
Bohr family coat of arms.

While the opposite of a fact may be a lie, the opposite of a truth may be another truth.
Niels Bohr.

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
Socrates.



The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it.
Carl Gustav Jung.



Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.
Erich Fromm. - The Art of Loving.

By three methods we may learn wisdom:
First, by reflection, which is the noblest;
Second, by imitation, which is the easiest;
and third by experience, which is the bitterest.
Confucius.


The Ancient of Days, 1794 by William Blake.

To see a world in a grain of sand
And a heaven in a wild flower
Hold infinity in the palm of your hand
And eternity in an hour.
William Blake. - Auguries of Innocence

Wisdom begins in wonder.
Socrates.



Ordo Ab Chao.

Life is a festival only to the wise.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.

There are many paths to enlightenment. Be sure to take one with a heart.
Lao Tzu.

It's so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and say the opposite.
Sam Levenson.



There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception.
Aldous Huxley.



They do not know very good Latin, these botanists.
Albert Hofmann.



Do or do not. There is no try.
Yoda.



Spoon boy: Do not try and bend the spoon. That's impossible. Instead... only try to realize the truth.
Neo: What truth?
Spoon boy: There is no spoon.



Trying is the first step towards failure.
Homer Simpson.

Group website: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wisdom

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Group Talk

Topics		messages	Last message
Quotes That Helped You Know Yourself		161	Naren559, December 7
Christianity & the Imagination....		7	chg1, December 2
Constants of Creation		3	picklesan, November 20
Loneliness....		2	ecohealth2003, November 15
Books on Wisdom and Enlightenment.		69	ecohealth2003, November 15
Short poems on Wisdom and Enlightenment		9	ecohealth2003, November 15
Enlightening Cinema. Wisdom Movies.		39	Naren559, September 23
Enlightening Music		12	ousia, September 19
Siddhartha discussion		1	Rosinbow, August 27
Love. What it is? How to recognize it? What does it taste like?		29	zentimental, August 26
I want to recommend a good spiritual book...		3	DeusExLibrus, August 5
A Way of Seeing...		1	picklesan, August 1
Ken Wilber is arrogant and egotistical?		3	DeusExLibrus, July 22
Do We Plan Our Lives Before We're Born?		4	stellarexplorer, June 13
Anyone want to discuss the Bible/the Torah?		9	Naren559, June 13
Cosmicomics		1	dwntotheundrgrnd, June 7
non-religious mystical experience		17	stellarexplorer, May 8
[The Talking Tree]-[[William G Gray]]		6	brbenjamin, April 29
Gurdjeff		5	stellarexplorer, March 4
The Master and Margarita...anyone?		9	doko, February 22
Season's Greetings actually means....		2	twitham, December 2008
Classics of Spiritual Philosophy and the Present		2	tames, November 2008
Invitation to chat about the spiritual meaning of life challenges		1	CourageousSouls, July 2008
Heaven on Earth here and now		1	JohnRobinson, June 2008
Noam Chomsky		2	jamclash, May 2008
David Hume		8	walden_girl, April 2008
Dormant: spirituality / meditation podcast		1	davidroel, April 2008
Dormant: Cosmic Jokes		3	walden_girl, April 2008
Dormant: Kundalini Awakenings		3	nmblefngrs, February 2008
Dormant: Artwork Credit		3	gregfromgilbert, December 2007
Dormant: Zaadz		2	Revenant, November 2007
Dormant: Ken Wilber's Integral Philosophy		18	Naren559, October 2007
Dormant: Life & Teaching of the Masters of the Far East		5	Child_of_Light, September 2007