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I have learnt silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strange, I am ungrateful to these teachers.
To stay young requires unceasing cultivation of the ability to unlearn old falsehoods.
Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass...it's about learning to dance in the rain.
It is one thing to remember, another to know. To remember is to safeguard something entrusted to the memory. But to know is to make each thing one's own, not depend on the text and always to look back to the teacher. "Zeno said this, Cleanthes said this." Let there be space between you and the book.
You don't always need what you want, and you don't always want what you need.
It is by doing the unpleasant with joy and focus that we learn to do the impossible.
For each of us, ignorance is a type of dust that accumulates more and more until it is wiped away.
Be a life long learner, not a life long student. You can't rob the world of your mind.
A wise and wonderful woman once walked many miles in her own shoes across this great earth.
She walked with great love for those she had not yet reached, those she had not yet embraced.
She saw the path of all to be varied but the same.
She saw not difference in those, but in common.
She saw not religion but light.
She saw not creed or color, but smiles.
She saw not suffering but joy, not pain but relief.
Once she was asked: "Will you join our anti-war rally?"
She replied: "No. I must continue my journey, for it is the journey of all humanity. BUT... if you organise a pro-peace rally, please invite me."
That which you face now is the very outcome of this moment.
Face not your toils but your rewards.
Face not those who would tread upon your efforts, but those who would beifit from your encouraging smile.
Face not those who look down, but down to those who might rise to meet you.
BUT MOST OF ALL: Face not your fears, but your LOVE, so that others may seek to free their bonds of struggle and join you on that hilltop to share your view...
What we have learnt is a handful (of mud), (that which is) unlearnt, is as large as the earth and so the goddess of learning is still learning.
Paradox is an idea making fun of itself.
"Knowledge is learning something every day.
Wisdom is letting go of something every day."
~Zen Proverb~
“I will live my life as an expression of the principles I believe in: empower, inspire, lead, learn, love, forgive, have faith and live.”
Suffering is meant to teach a lesson. Whether the lesson is meant for an individual, a group, a culture, a nation or a planet depends on the suffering. The nature of suffering is that it shall continue until the lesson is learned.
More learning can occur when there are many obstacles
than when there are few or none
Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we've learned something from yesterday.
"Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire." By W.B. Yeats
I tried to change the author, but I couldn't figure out how. . .
The best way to learn how to get somewhere is to get lost.
Education is what you have after you have forgotten everything you learned in school.
You can't have real learning with a child unless they are playing. Real playing is how real learning takes place. You can have conditioning and a Pavlovian conditioning of his dogs, or behaviors modifications through other means which we look on as very serious, and we generally call learning, but it's not learning. It's conditioning. Real learning takes place by what Maria Montesorri would call the absorbent mind of the child. Simply absorbing their universe, absorbing it, becoming it, and they do this through play. Play can be the most serious undertaking of a child's life. It is the most serious undertaking. They are completely entrained in play. Mind, the three parts of the mind; thought, feeling, action, the body, every aspect of the child's self entrained solely focuses totally on the activity of absorbing their world. Absorbing their environment. It is the most serious active to their life because they're literally building their construction of knowledge of the world, of themselves, of the relationship between the two and laying down all the foundations for the later forms of intelligence.
Patience is the First Lesson.
i found myself where i knew i was the whole time. but i didn't know i knew where i was.
The greater your desire to learn and grow as a person, the greater will be your pain when you are not learning and growing as a person.
"I have decided that learning about anything is awesome, but as soon as you put a grade on it... not so much"
Every human being is as special as every other human being who has ever lived, lives now, or every will live. You are all meesengers. Every one of you. You are carrying a message to life about life every day. Every hour. Every moment.
Everything you think, say, and do is a message. Your whole life is your teaching. If you thought that others, tomorrow, would walk in the path that you have taken today, would you take the same path?
You may think that people do not look to you, but they do. More people than you know. Everyone, in fact whose life you touch is touched by your example. You are giving them data about life. You are telling them how it is, how things operate, how things are, and they will emulate you, they will copy you, they will take your data into their world and make it part of their own lives.
Your family will do this. All people, family or not, who see you and know of you and are touched by you, will do this.
Your neighbors will do this. Your nation will do this. You are the nation. The nation is made up of you. You are your religion. Your religion is made up of you.
Everything starts with you.
You are the first domino. All the rest of the dominoes fall when you do. What you "fall for" is what they'll fall for! Therefore, don't fall for anything...but, rather, fall in.
Fall in step with your highest self, for your highest self steps on the Path. Fall in line with your grandest thoughts, for your grandest thoughts lead you to that Path. Fall in love, for love is that Path. Then, watch things fall into place, all because of you.
There is only so much you can learn in one place... the more time that you wait, the more time that you waste...
"Knowledge is learning something every day,
Wisdom is letting go of something every day."
~~Zen Proverb~~
