Wisdom Quotes

ਪਉੜੀ ॥ ਜਿਉ ਜਿਉ ਤੇਰਾ ਹੁਕਮੁ ਤਿਵੈ ਤਿਉ ਹੋਵਣਾ ॥
ਜਹ ਜਹ ਰਖਹਿ ਆਪਿ ਤਹ ਜਾਇ ਖੜੋਵਣਾ ॥
{ਪੰਨਾ 523}

There are two ways of spreading light -
to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.
- Edith Wharton, Vesalius in Zante

मैं देखता हूँ उन्हें
कभी दिवाली के पटाखे फोड़ते हुए
तो कभी रोते - बिलखते हुए ..

There are two sides to every story -
and then there’s the truth.

Ask and you will receive.
Seek and you will find.
Knock and it will be opened to you.

He who delights in understanding the material world is not a Sage.
He who has personal attachments is not humane.
He who calculates the time of his actions is not wise.
He who does not know the interaction of benefit and harm is not a superior man.
He who pursues fame at the risk of losing his self is not a scholar.
He who loses his life and is not true to himself can never be a master of man..
- from The Book of Chuang Tzu

Essence is collected
when noise and biases
are filtered out..