Wisdom and compassion should become the dominating influences that guide our thoughts , our words, and our actions.
Interpretation
Wisdom and compassion should lead our behavior and decisions in life.
This quote emphasizes the importance of allowing wisdom and compassion to guide every aspect of our lives, including our thoughts, words, and actions. By prioritizing these qualities, we can cultivate a more thoughtful and empathetic existence, ultimately fostering a positive impact on ourselves and those around us.
In practice
This quote can be shared during a leadership seminar to emphasize the importance of compassionate decision-making.
Happiness is the result of inner maturity. It depends on us alone, and requires patient work, carried out from day to day. Happiness must be built, and this requires time and effort. In the long term, happiness and unhappiness are therefore a way of being, or a life skill.
Happiness is the main object of our aspirations, whatever name we give to it: fulfilment, deep satisfaction, serenity, accomplishment, wisdom, fortune, joy or inner peace, and however we try to seek it: creativity, justice, altruism, striving, completion of a plan or a piece of work.
True freedom means freeing oneself from the dictates of the ego and its accompanying emotions.
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Happiness is a state of inner fulfillment.
Knowledge does not mean mastering a great quantity of different information, but understanding the nature of mind. This knowledge can penetrate each one of our thoughts and illuminate each one of our perceptions.
Letting your mind play is the best way to solve problems.
Joy lies in the fight, in the attempt, in the suffering involved, not in the victory itself
Because I remember, I despair. Because I remember, I have the duty to reject despair.
We do not believe in ourselves until someone reveals that deep inside us something is valuable, worth listening to, worthy of our trust, sacred to our touch. Once we believe in ourselves we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight or any experience that reveals the human spirit.
The thing about information is that information is more valuable when people know it. There's an exception for business information and super timely information, but in all other cases, ideas that spread win.
The main thing, of course, always, is the fact that there is only one of you in the world, just one, and if that is not fulfilled then something has been lost. Ambition is not enough; necessity is everything.
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