The ending of sorrow is the beginning of wisdom. Knowledge is always within the shadow of ignorance. Meditation is freedom from thought and a movement in the ecstasy of truth. Meditation is explosion of intelligence.
Interpretation
Sorrow leads to wisdom, and meditation reveals deeper truths and intelligence.
This quote presents the idea that experiencing sorrow can pave the way for greater wisdom, as it often encourages reflection and understanding. It emphasizes the importance of meditation in transcending ordinary thought, suggesting that through this practice, one can discover profound truths and unleash their true intelligence.
In practice
In a lecture about personal growth, one could use this quote to emphasize the lessons learned from difficult experiences.
The following of authority is the denial of intelligence. [It] may help us temporarily to cover up our difficulties and problems; but to avoid a problem is only to intensify it, and in the process, self-knowledge and freedom are abandoned.
In seeking comfort, we generally find a quiet corner in life where there is a minimum of conflict, and then we are afraid to step out of that seclusion.
If you listen through the screen of your desires, then you obviously listen to your own voice; you are listening to your own desires.
If you have this extraordinary thing going in your life, then it is everything; then you become the teacher, the disciple, the neighbour, the beauty of the cloud - you are all that, and that is love.
Meditation is one of the greatest arts in life - perhaps the greatest, and one cannot possibly learn it from anybody, that is the beauty of it.
All of us have been trained by education and environment to seek personal gain and security and to fight for ourselves. Though we cover it over with pleasant phrases, we have been educated for various professions within a system which is based on exploitation and acquisitive fear.
Be watchful - the grace of God appears suddenly. It comes without warning to an open heart.
Many people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
You will always be too much of something for someone: too big, too loud, too soft, too edgy. If you round out your edges, you lose your edge. Apologize for mistakes. Apologize for unintentionally hurting someone - profusely. But don't apologize for being who you are.
Don't mistake activity with achievement.
Open the book to page ninety-nine and read, and the quality of the whole will be revealed to you.
It may be that the books that were best liked in your lifetime are not the ones that are best liked 100 years later.
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