Women's bodies have their own wisdom, and a system of birth refined over 100,000 generations is not so easily overpowered.
We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both.
Human beings have a variety of intelligences, such as cognitive intelligence, emotional intelligence, musical intelligence, kinesthetic intelligence, and so on. Most people excel in one or two of those, but do poorly in the others. This is not necessarily or even usually a bad thing; part of Integral wisdom is finding where one excels and thus where one can best offer the world one's deepest gifts.
Wisdom and fortune combating together, If that the former dare but what it can, No chance may shake it.
Those unacquainted with the world take pleasure in intimacy with great men; those who are wiser fear the consequences.
I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.
I prithee gentle friend, Let thy fair wisdom, not thy passions, sway In this uncivil and unjust extent Against thy peace.
Vanity can easily overtake wisdom. It usually overtakes common sense.
Integration is nothing but your complete connection with your spirit.
The answers are all out there, we just need to ask the right questions.
When we look at the cross we see the justice, love, wisdom and power of God. It is not easy to decide which is the most luminously revealed, whether the justice of God in judging sin, or the love of God in bearing the judgment in our place, or the wisdom of God in perfectly combining the two, or the power of God in saving those who believe. For the cross is equally an act, and therefore a demonstration, of God’s justice, love, wisdom and power. The cross assures us that this God is the reality within, behind and beyond the universe.
The geographical pilgrimage is the symbolic acting out an inner journey. The inner journey is the interpolation of the meanings and signs of the outer pilgrimage. One can have one without the other. It is best to have both.
The first requisite of stewardship is to give ourselves to God. Thus, a logical recognition of God's absolute ownership should follow.
Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.
The virtues of men are of more consequence to society than their abilities, and for this reason, the heart should be cultivated with more assiduity than the head.
I do not feel I have wisdom enough yet to love what is ugly.
It takes a great man to be a good listener.
Wisdom with an inheritance is good, but wisdom without an inheritance is better than an inheritance without wisdom.
Only the wounded physician heals.
If we Pause and breathe in and out, then we can have the experience of timeless presence, of the inexpressible wisdom and goodness of our own minds. We can look at the world with fresh eyes and hear things with fresh ears.
