Wisdom Quote by Mokokoma Mokhonoana — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“Some people avoid thinking deeply in public, only because they are afraid of coming across as suicidal.”

“Even the truth is just a mere thought.”

“Pain, unless it is physical, was sold to you (by your culture).”

“Plants are more courageous than almost all human beings: an orange tree would rather die than produce lemons, whereas instead of dying the average person would rather be someone they are not.”

“Sometimes silence is a sign, not of not knowing what to say, but of knowing when to say what you know.”

“People who smile while they are alone used to be called insane, until we invented smartphones and social media.”

“Where ignorance lurks, so too do the frontiers of discovery and imagination”

“Conceptual knowledge is so valued in our world. Yet in many cultures wisdom is equated not with knowledge but with an open heart.”

“we have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood”

“The Practice of Staying”

“We can also speak of the external enemy...destroying Tibetan rights and, in that way, more suffering and anxiety develops. But no matter how forceful this is, it cannot destroy the supreme source of my happiness, which is my calmness of mind. This is something an external enemy cannot destroy.”

“An unexamined life is not worth living.”