learning

Jesus taught us many things. But so did Muhammad and Buddha and countless others. You don't need priests or prophets to teach you. People and events in your life can teach you.

Your assumptions are your windows on the world.  Scrub them off every once in awhile, or the light won't come in. 

To stay young requires unceasing cultivation of the ability to unlearn old falsehoods.

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.

In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.

When you stumble...make it part of the dance.

You don't always need what you want, and you don't always want what you need.

You can't put people in boxes, and you can't fit life into compartments.

Be a life long learner, not a life long student. You can't rob the world of your mind.

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.