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

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

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

“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.”

“The dark season is not a sign that we have failed the spiritual life. It is a sign that the spiritual life has reached the place where the deepest work can finally begin — the work that the easier seasons, with all their warmth and light, could never quite reach.”

“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.”

“To trust the slow work of the sacred is to discover that the ground has always been there. That it was holding us before we noticed it. That the peace we were searching for in the resolution of our circumstances was available, all along, beneath them — in the stillness we kept moving too fast to find.”

“Loss does not mean the end, my boy.”

“In every reckless act, there’s a hidden reckoning; those who tempt fate will find that consequence is a teacher unwilling to spare its students.”

“The unteachable man is sentenced to being taught only by experience. The tragedy is he reaches nothing further than his own pain.”

“The mind builds walls. The heart, when allowed, builds windows.”

“Stupidity and wisdom meet in the same centre of sentiment and resolution, in the suffering of human accidents.”

“…one half of her should not be always so much wiser than the other half…”