252 Quotes About Knowledge-of-self

If there's one thing every good novelist understands, it's that our inner world is unreliable and yet there's no getting beyond it. Every sense is subject to deception, including the moral sense. What seems at first like the hard surface of spiritual reality is really fathomless when you dive down into it. There is no bottom. We neve know anything for sure. (p. xvi)

Gnani Purush’ [the enlightened one] has the [knowledge of the-Self] essence of all religions.

Calm is good, passivity not to much. Calm is always a basic inner attitude that makes it possible to concentrate and act purposefully. But passivity suggest an element of denial. Passive people refuse to take initiatives and to exploit stimuli. They sit and wait - without strength, defiant or rigid from shock - in whatever their situation is and prefer to suffer considerably from their plight rather than trying to change something. This includes boredom and even bad relationships.

If You Do Not Know, it is Useless to Explain, Because You Would Not Understand"__nickc

Homes are built on the foundation of wisdomand understanding.

If I believe the same things today I did yesterday I've learned nothing.

We read deeply for varied reasons, most of them familiar: that we cannot know enough people profoundly enough; that we need to know ourselves better; that we require knowledge, not just of self and others, but of the way things are.

Get Smart or Die Trying

Anyone can be a fool, but the one recognizes it and admits it is on the path to wisdom.