Misconceptions of Life:
- Knowledge: Knowledge satisfies the ego; wisdom destroys the ego completely; hence people seek knowledge.
- Knowledge depends on words. One can easily become knowledgeable by sitting in a library, but one cannot become wise that way. To become wise one has to be in communion with a wise man.
- Knowledge is a pseudo-coin, it is deceptive. It only gives you a feeling that you know, and you don’t know at all.
- Knowledge is mediocre. To be in the state of not-knowing is intelligence, it is awareness, it is non-accumulative.
- Wisdom: Knowledge makes you learned, wisdom makes you innocent. Knowledge is very ego-fulfilling, very ego-strengthening. The ego feeds on knowledge; it is the best tonic for the ego.
- To be aflame with silence, with joy, is wisdom. It is not through logic but through love.
- Wisdom is the name of pure intelligence. It is the spontaneous flowering of your being. Knowledge comes from outside. Wisdom comes from your innermost core.
- Wisdom is simply wisdom. It is truth.
- Misconceptions of Life: Life is in living. It is not a thing, it is a process. There is no way to attain life except by living it, except by being alive, flowing, streaming with it.
- Misconceptions simply means you are seeking the meaning of life in some dogma, in some philosophy, in some theology, that is the sure way to miss life and meaning both.
- Misconceptions demystifies existence; wisdom re-mystifies it. Knowing, if authentic, makes life more of a mystery than it has ever been before.
- Living is the real challenge.
