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Silver Lining Of Your Cloud
Life Quotes and Sayings
Not-Knowing
In order to come to the knowledge you have not, you must go by a way in
which you know not. ~St. John of the Cross
True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand
about life, ourselves, and the world around us. ~Socrates
In order to see through the mind and the deeply ingrained sense of separation
that continues to generate so much confusion and suffering in our lives, we
must take a chance; we must leave what we know and enter that mysterious
reality of the unknown. ~Adyashanti
Without going out of my door, I can know all things on earth. Without looking
out of my window I could know the ways of heaven. The farther one travels,
the less one knows, the less one really knows. ~George Harrison
It is only when we forget all our learning that we begin to know. ~Henry David
Thoreau
To know that you do not know is the best. To pretend to know when you do not
know is disease. ~Lao Tzu
Real courage consists of departing from the false while not yet knowing what
is true. ~Vernon Howard
Everything depends on your readiness and willingness to let go into the
Unknown, and live from that mysterious and precious condition. ~Adyashanti
The door to God is the insecurity of not knowing anything. Bear the grace of
that uncertainty and all wisdom will be yours. ~Adyashanti
Let yourself be made new by your willingness to drop everything you know,
and float in the Unknown sea of the Heart. ~Jeannie Zandi
Reason’s last step is the recognition that there are an infinite number of things
which are beyond it. ~Blaise Pascal
There are situations when all answers and explanations fade. When you fully
accept that you do not know, you give up struggling to find answers with the
limited thinking mind. That is when the greater intelligence can operate though
you. Sometimes surrender means giving up trying to understand and becoming
comfortable with not knowing. ~Eckhart Tolle
There are vast realms of consciousness still undreamed or vast ranges of
experience, like humming of unseen harps, we know nothing of, within us. ~D.
H. Lawrence
We wake, if ever at all, to mystery. ~Annie Dillard
The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance–it is the illusion of
knowledge. ~Daniel J. Boorstin
I create my own security by trusting the process of life. ~Louise L. Hay
To live in the known is bondage. To live in the unknown is liberation.
~Nisargadatta Maharaj
Man can learn nothing except by going from the known to the unknown.
~Claude Bernard
Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what, next or how–The artist
never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap
in the dark. ~Agnes de Mille
By ignorance the truth is known. ~Heinrich Suso
Life is a mystery, which means your thinking mind cannot make sense out of
it. ~Anthony de Mello
If you don’t know where you are going, any road will get you there. ~Lewis
Carroll
I know that I do not need to know, and that I do not need to be afraid of not
knowing. God knows. That is all that matters. ~Frederick Buechner
I see my path, but I don’t know where it leads. Not knowing where I’m going
is what inspires me to travel it. ~Rosalia de Castro
When you walk to the edge of all the light you have
And you take the first step into the darkness of the unknown
You must believe that one of two things will happen
There will be something solid for you to stand upon
or you will be taught to fly.
~Patrick Overton
Human existence is girt round with mystery: the narrow region of our
experience is a small island in the midst of a boundless sea. ~John Stuart Mill
I don’t know where I am going, but I am on my way.. ~Voltaire
The more you struggle to live, the less you live. Give up the notion that you
must be sure of what you are doing. Instead, surrender to what is real within
you, for that alone is sure. You are above everything distressing. ~Spinoza
Even when you think you have your life all mapped out, things happen that
shape your destiny in ways you might never have imagined. ~Deepak Chopra
Mind guesses. Life knows. ~Dr. Vijai Shankar
We dance around in a ring and suppose, but the Secret sits in the middle and
knows. ~Robert Frost
The more you know about the unknown, the more you actually understand
how little you know. It makes you humble and brings you back to the world of
wonders, miracles, and magic. ~Thomas Herold
The state of not-knowing is a riveting place to be. And we don’t have to climb
rocks to experience it. We encounter not-knowing when, for instance, we meet
someone new, or when life offers up a surprise. These experiences remind us
that change and unpredictability are the pulse of our very existence. No one
really knows what will happen from one moment to the next: who will we be,
what will we face, and how will we respond to what we encounter? We don’t
know, but there’s a good chance we will encounter some rough, unwanted
experiences, some surprises beyond our imaginings, and some expected things,
too. And we can decide to stay present for all of it. ~Elizabeth Mattis-Namgyel
Belief brings me close to You
but only to the door.
It is only by disappearing into
Your mystery
that I will come in.
~Sanai
To hear the song of the reed everything you have ever known must be left
behind. ~Rumi
There will come a time when one will have to forget all that one has learned.
~Ramana Maharshi
The beauty of facing life unprepared is tremendous. Then life has a newness, a
youth; then life has a flow and freshness. Then life has so many surprises. And
when life has so many surprises boredom never settles in you. ~Osho
We’re not ahead, we’re behind.
We’re not above, we’re below.
Like a brush in the painter’s hand,
We have no idea where we are.
~Rumi
The further one goes
The less one knows.
~Lao Tzu
Do not seek the answers. Let the answers find you. ~Leonard Jacobson
The Truth is revealed when we allow ourselves to not know, so I invite you to
set aside all that you know for the time being and allow yourself to look with
innocent eyes at what the words are attempting to unveil. ~Nirmala
The wisdom of insecurity.’ This is the ability to flow with the changes, to see
everything as a process of change, to relax with uncertainty. ~Jack Kornfield
In Zen, ‘don’t-know mind’ is the only kind of mind that is true. When you
practice don’t-know mind, you let go of the need for knowing and
acknowledge how little you can ever actually know. ~Colleen Morton Busch
When we realize that things are fundamentally uncertain and learn how to
relax into this uncertainty, we come to trust in the unfolding of our individual
lives within the vastness of all time and space. ~Jack Kornfield
Life is a mystery. A moment comes when suddenly you start living it, you start
flowing with it. That’s the beauty of it, that’s its infinite depth. ~Osho
It may be when we no longer know what to do, we have come to our real
work, and that when we no longer know which way to go, we have begun our
real journey. ~Wendell Berry
