What is Wisdom?

Wisdom from...

Zen
Do not seek the truth, only cease to cherish your opinions.

It takes a wise man to learn from his mistakes, but an even wiser man to learn from others.

Knock on the sky and Listen to the sound.

Knock on the sky and Listen to the sound.

The ten thousand questions are one question. If you cut through the one question, then the ten thousand questions disappear.

The tighter you squeeze the less you have.

The ways to the One are as many as the lives of men.

To do a certain kind of thing, you have to be a certain kind of person.

To know that there is nothing to know, and to grieve that it is so difficult to communicate this "nothing to know" to others - this is the life of Zen, this is the deepest thing in the world.

I only know a snowflake cannot exist in a storm of fire

A weed is a plant whose virtues are only waiting to be discovered.

Women may spend their whole lives looking for true love. If you wish for true love, learn to love yourself.

China;
He who cannot agree with his enemies is controlled by them.

It takes hundreds of reincarnations to bring two persons to ride on the same boat; it takes a thousand eons to bring two persons to share the same pillow.

A spark can start a fire that burns the entire prairie.

Aboriginal;
Keep your eyes on the sun and you will not see the shadows.

Those who lost dreaming are lost

We are all visitors to this time, this place. We are just passing through. Our purpose here is to observe, to learn, to grow, to love... and then we return home.

A 1000 miles journey starts with a single step

Native Americans;
We do not inherit the world from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children.

Make my enemy brave and strong, so that if defeated, I will not be ashamed.

Not every sweet root give birth to sweet grass.

All plants are our brothers and sisters. They talk to us and if we listen, we can hear them.

Life is not separate from death. It only looks that way.

Yigaquu osaniyu adanvto adadoligi nigohilvi nasquv utloyasdi nihi" Cherokee - "May the Great Spirit's blessings always be with you."

Ea Nigada Qusdi Idadadvhn" Cherokee - "All my relations in creation."

A danger foreseen is half-avoided.

Our first teacher is our own heart.

All who have died are equal.

Listen or your tongue will keep you deaf.

Only when the last tree has withered, and the last fish caught, and the last river been poisoned, will we realize we cannot eat money.

You already possess everything necessary to become great

There is no death, only a change of worlds

All dreams spin out from the same web

Wisdom comes only when you stop looking for it and start living the life the Creator intended for you.

The rainbow is a sign from Him who is in all things.

Walk lightly in the spring; Mother Earth is pregnant.

Ho! Mitakuye Oyasin" - "We are all related."

Seek wisdom, not knowledge. Knowledge is of the past, Wisdom is of the future.

You cannot see the future with tears in your eyes.

Every animal knows more than you do.

White men have too many chiefs.

Sharing and giving are the ways of God.

He who would do great things should not attempt them all alone.

We are all one child spinning through Mother Sky.

"It is no longer good enough to cry peace, we must act peace, live peace and live in peace."

Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Walk beside me that we may be as one.