"Knowledge is learning something every day.
Wisdom is letting go of something every day."
~Zen Proverb~
"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.”
Much learning does not teach understanding. Heraclitus
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.
I decided to start anew, to strip away what I had been taught.
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~~
"Never regret. If it's good, it's wonderful. If it's bad, it's an experience."
You don't have to be a "person of influence" to be influential. In fact, the most influential people in my life are probably not even aware of the things they've taught me.
The appetite grows by eating.
You have one mouth and two ears. You should listen twice as much as you speak.
"The hardest job kids face today is learning good manners without seeing any."!
Even falling flat on your face is still moving forward.
Many find it strange for a person to spend their life studying human happiness and intimacy. I find it strange for anyone not to.
Life is information
"What we need to do is learn to work in the system, by which I mean that everybody, every team, every platform, every division, every component is there not for competitive profit or recognition, but for contribution to the system as a whole on a win-win basis."
When you act like a teacher, it's usually because you're afraid to be the student.
I have a lot of energy. I have a great desire to absorb information. I'm not a sponge exactly, but I find that something I look at -- just walking around Williamsburg, for example -- is a great opportunity for ideas. I've been here before, I've seen things before, but now my eye gets keener and keener. So I can pick up little things: just the pattern of a brick walk, or the way they've attached a light to a house.
The mind is but a barren soil; a soil which is soon exhausted, and will produce no crop, or only one, unless it be continually fertilized and enriched with foreign matter.