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

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

“We lose, again and again, the present moment — which is not a poetic concept but the literal location of everything that has ever mattered to us.”

“There is a ground. A knowing, below the feeling, that this day — this particular, unrepeatable, never-to-come-again arrangement of hours — has been given. Not happened. Given. And that the One who gave it is present in every hour of it, available in every moment, closer than the heartbeat.”

“This is what it means to say the heart is more than a pumping machine.”

“You cannot change what happened. You cannot unsay the words, unmake the choices, remove the circumstances that arrived without your permission and shaped you in ways you would not have chosen. That territory is closed. But how you carry what happened — what meaning you make of it, what it teaches you, what you build from it, what kind of person you decide to become in the light of having lived through it — that territory remains entirely open. The past does not have the authority to determine your future. It has the authority only to inform it. And informing is not the same as determining. What you do with what you have lived through — the wisdom you extract from it, the compassion it produces in you, the understanding of yourself and of others that it has made possible — that is still yours to shape.”

“Honor every take; they're all part of the Final Cut.”

“Love keeps no record of wrongs, but bitterness keeps detailed accounts.”

“For the unified mind in accord with the Way all self-centered striving ceases. Doubts and irresolutions vanish and life in true faith is possible. With a single stroke we are freed from bondage; nothing clings to us and we hold nothing. All is empty, clear, self-illuminating, with no exertion of the mind's power.”

“wisdom comes to us when it can no longer do any good.”

“Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise; seek what they sought.”

“You cannot explore the universe if you think that you are the center of it.”