Bodhidharma Quotes

Intuition does not in itself amount to knowledge, yet cannot be disregarded by philosophers and psychologists.

Only the dreamer shall understand realities, though in truth his dreaming must be not out of proportion to his waking.

Experience is never limited, and it is never complete; it is an immense sensibility, a kind of huge spider-web of the finest silken threads suspended in the chamber of consciousness, and catching every air-borne particle in its tissue.

Wisdom comes from within. Knowledge is acquired and can sometimes put a screen on your wisdom.

I wish the children could be taught early on that our thinking creates our experience.

Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced.

Though I am fascinated by knowledge, I am even more fascinated by wisdom.

What our eyes behold may well be the text of life but one's meditations on the text and the disclosures of these meditations are no less a part of the structure of reality.

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.

Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.

Learning sleeps and snores in libraries, but wisdom is everywhere, wide awake, on tiptoe.

Knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows.

You can learn so much just by observing.

It's all real and it's all illusory: that's Awareness!

But we shall not know the world by looking at it; we know it by looking at the hovering fly.

If there were nothing but thought in you, you wouldn't even know you are thinking. You would be like a dreamer who doesn't know he is dreaming. When you know you are dreaming, you are awake within the dream.

To begin to understand the gorgeous fever that is consciousness, we must try to understand the senses and what they can tell us about the ravishing world we have the privilege to inhabit.

I used to try to figure out precisely what I was seeing all the time, until I discovered that I didn't need to. If the thing is true, why there it is.

It seems to me that the real problem is the mind itself and not the problem which the mind has created and tries to solve.

To perceive is to suffer.

If you use your mind to study reality, you won't understand either your mind or reality. If you study reality without using your mind, you'll understand both. . . . The mind and the world are opposites, and vision arises where they meet. When your mind doesn't stir inside, the world doesn't arise outside. When the world and the mind are both transparent, this is true vision. And such understanding is true understanding.

When you don't understand, you depend on reality. When you do understand, reality depends on you.

To Truth's house there is a single door, which is experience.

When you reach the end of what you should know, you will be at the beginning of what you should sense.

To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.