wisdom

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 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 conceptual universe of his or her own creation ...

Could presence be heart-generated coherence in the world of personal magnetics? People with presence have an ineffable quality about them; they are 'present,' surprisingly attentive, and undistracted. A fullness, a centeredness, a wholeness radiates from them. We enjoy being 'in their presence.' You can build presence. It is the natural radiance of heart security.

- Doc Childre and Bruce Cryer, From Chaos to Coherence

Be not afraid of going slowly; be afraid only of standing still.
- Chinese proverb

It’s not differences that divide us. It’s our judgments about each other that do.
- Meg Wheatley

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 for him; he does the thing he ought not to do and often it catches the expert out and ends him on the spot.
- Mark Twain

A single conversation across the table with a wise man is worth a month's study of books.
- Chinese proverb

We are moving toward a light that embraces the darkness.
- Ram Dass