Pearls of Wisdom
quotations & quotes
Here are some particularly apt quotations and quotes that may well qualify as - Pearls of Wisdom :-
None are so hopelessly enslaved as those who falsely believe they are free.
Goethe
Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
Anais Nin
Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.
Maya Angelou
When we are unable to find tranquility within ourselves, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.
La Rochefoucauld
A brief resume of some Pearls of Wisdom that may even qualify as being " Central Poetry Insights " now follows:-
- A Disdain for Materialism
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Poor and content is rich, and rich enough.
Shakespeare - A Distrust of Intellect
- The intellectual power, through words and things,
Went sounding on, a dim and perilous way!
Wordsworth - A Yearning for Divine Edification
- God guard me from those thoughts men think
In the mind alone;
He that sings a lasting song
Thinks in a marrow-bone;
Yeats - Charity
- That best portion of a good man's life,
His little, nameless, unremembered acts
Of kindness and of love.
Wordsworth - Purity of Heart
- A peace above all earthly dignities,
A still and quiet conscience.
Shakespeare - Humility
- The best of men
That e'er wore earth about him, was a sufferer,
A soft, meek, patient, humble, tranquil spirit,
The first true gentleman that ever breathed.
Thomas Dekker - Meekness
- Since my dear soul was mistress of her choice,
And could of men distinguish her election,
Sh'hath sealed thee for herself, for thou hast been
As one in suff'ring all that suffers nothing,
A man that Fortune's buffets and rewards
Hast ta'en with equal thanks; and blest are those
Whose blood and judgement are so well co-medled,
That they are not a pipe for Fortune's finger
To sound what stop she please: give me that man
That is not passion's slave, and I will wear him
In my heart's core, ay in my heart of heart,
As I do thee.
Shakespeare
Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
Goethe
We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
Agnes Repplier
A royal heart is often hidden under a tattered cloak.
Danish Proverb
A brief resume of some Pearls of Wisdom that may even qualify as being " Central Spiritual Insights " now follows:~
- A Disdain for Materialism
- Chuang Tzu put on cotton clothes with patches in them, and
arranging his girdle and tying on his shoes,
(i.e. to keep them from falling off),
went to see the prince of Wei.
"How miserable you look, Sir!" Cried the prince. "It is poverty, not misery", replied Chuang Tzu. "A man who has TAO cannot be miserable. Ragged clothes and old boots make poverty, not misery".
Chuang Tzu - (Taoism) - A Distrust of Intellect
- Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment; Cleverness is mere
opinion, bewilderment intuition.
Rumi - (Islam) - A Yearning for Divine Edification
- The intelligence of the mean man does not rise beyond bribes and letters of
recommendation. His mind is beclouded with trivialities. Yet he would penetrate the
mystery of TAO and of creation, and rise to participation in the ONE. The result is
that he is confounded by time and space; and that trammelled by objective existences,
that he fails apprehension of that age before anything was.
But the perfect man, - he carries his mind back to the period before the beginning.
Content to rest in the oblivion of nowhere, passing away like flowing water, he is
merged in the clear depths of the infinite.
Chuang Tzu - (Taoism) - Charity
- He that does everything for Me, whose supreme object I am, who
worships Me, being free from attachment and without hatred to any
creature, this man, Arjuna!, comes to Me.
Bhagavad Gita ~ (Hinduism) ~ also known as ~ (Vedanta).
And my soul is absorbed
In the Love of My Lord.
Bow humbly to the saint
That is a pious act.
Bow to the ground before him
That is devotion, indeed.
The faithless know not,
The joy of the love of the Lord;
From Sohila-Arti ~ a bed-time prayer
This section of which is attributed to Guru Ram Das - (Sikhism) - Purity of Heart
- The path of the just is as the shining light, that shineth more
and more unto the perfect day. The way of the wicked is as
darkness: they know not at what they stumble.
Solomon - (Judaism) - Humility
- Would you become a pilgrim on the road of love? The first
condition is that you make yourself humble as dust and ashes.
Ansari of Herat - (Islam) - Meekness
- Let a man overcome anger by love, let him overcome evil by good;
let him overcome the greedy by liberality, the liar by truth!
Speak the truth, do not yield to anger; give, if thou art asked
for little; by these three steps thou wilt go near the gods.
Dhammapada - (Buddhism)
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
Will Rogers
Now is no time to think of what you do not have. Think of what you can do with what there is.
Ernest Hemingway
Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.
Ludwig Börne
We maintain a page dedicated to a detailed treatment of "Central" Poetry Insights:-
Several of our pages are dedicated to a detailed treatment of "Central" Spiritual Insights.
These pages are individually concerned with insights from Buddhist, Christian, Hindu, Islamic, Jewish, Sikh and Taoist sources - readers may be surprised at the range of agreement between these major World Religions as to what is "Spiritually Important".