Internal Understanding Quotes

The wise man has his follies, no less than the fool; but it has been said that herein lies the difference--the follies of the fool are known to the world, but hidden from himself; the follies of the wise are known to himself, but hidden from the world.

Don't think that your truth could be found by someone else.

Do not think your truth can be found by anyone else.

Nobody's dumb in this relationship [with his wife] or in the relationships of any of the other guys in the band. But it's also not the cliché that those on the outside envision.

We need a self because the complexity of the chemical processes that make up our individual humanities exceeds the processing power of our brains.

Knowing yourself has to always come from within. The outside can inspire or guide you, but knowing has to come from within you.

. . . the fools of this world prefer to look for sages far away. They don't believe that the wisdom of their own mind is the sage . . . the sutras say, "Mind is the teaching." But people of no understanding don't believe in their own mind or that by understanding this teaching they can become a sage. They prefer to look for distant knowledge and long for things in space, buddha-images, light, incense, and colors. They fall prey to falsehood and lose their minds to insanity.

I know my body better than anything, better than anybody.

My suggestion is that if you need someone outside your company to prepare a mission statement for you, then you really don't know what your mission is, and you probably don't have one.

There is no truth except the truth that exists within you. Everything else is what someone is telling you.

There were things that I knew that I was going to keep to myself.

My teachings are easy to understand and easy to put into practice. Yet your intellect will never grasp them, and if you try to practice them, you'll fail. My teachings are older than the world. How can you grasp their meaning? If you want to know me, look inside your heart.

When you really understand that you are what you see and know, you do not run around the countryside thinking, "I am all this!" There is simply all this.

How all becomes clear and simple when one opens an eye on the within, having of course previously exposed it to the without, in order to benefit by the contrast.