Wisdom Quote by Ayisha Bhatti — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“The open hand receives what the closed fist could never contain.”

“The earth has been patient with us for a very long time. It will wait a little longer. But the morning — this morning, with its particular light and its particular silence — will not.”

“This is a pale reflection of a deeper truth: that the One who created us holds us with a constancy that does not require our acknowledgment. The thread is not diminished by our forgetting. It is simply waiting for us to turn and recognize it again.”

“The difficult life of the illuminated heart is not a life that has escaped difficulty. It is a life in which difficulty has been deprived of its power to have the final word.”

“Wisdom lives in silence. Not the wisdom of accumulated information, which is only knowledge, but the wisdom that comes from sitting with experience long enough to understand what it was actually teaching. Hurry gives us events. Silence gives us meaning.”

“We have become, without realizing it, the most demanding audience our own life has ever had.”

“They were quiet for a while, eating, then Oromis asked, "Can you tell me, What is the most important mental tool a person can possess?”

“Are we being good ancestors?”

“The things we hate about ourselves aren't more real than things we like about ourselves.”

“Love is being able to view a situation without adding duality to it.”

“To be careless in making decisions is to naively believe that a single decision impacts nothing more than that single decision, for a single decision can spawn a thousand others that were entirely unnecessary or it can bring peace to a thousand places we never knew existed.”

“A man is not called wise because he talks and talks again; but if he is peaceful, loving and fearless then he is in truth called wise.”