Posts Tagged as: wisdom
in harmony
Wisdom is about living harmoniously in the universe, which is itself a place of order and justice that triumphs over chaos and employs chance for its ultimate purpose. - Matthew Fox
presence of the heart
Presence is a rare quality in a world of 20-second sound bites, nonstop stimulation, and gnawing anxiety. What underlies presence? Clearly, it is not intellectual prowess or Mensa would rule the world. More than once we all have been bored to tears by the intellectual aloofness of someone disconnected from everyday reality, adrift in a...
lest ye judge
It’s not differences that divide us. It’s our judgments about each other that do. - Meg Wheatley
winning novices
The best swordsman in the world doesn’t need to fear the second best swordsman in the world; no, the person for him to be afraid of is some ignorant antagonist who has never had a sword in his hand before; he doesn’t do the thing he ought to do, and so the expert isn’t prepared...
quit the books
A single conversation across the table with a wise man is worth a month’s study of books. - Chinese proverb









