“Wisdom tells me I am nothing. Love tells me I am everything. And between the two my life flows.”
I am
Variant: Love says 'I am everything.' Wisdom says 'I am nothing.' Between the two, my life flows.
Source: I Am That
Context: "I find that somehow, by shifting the focus of attention, I become the very thing I look at, and experience the kind of consciousness it has; I become the inner witness of the thing. I call this capacity of entering other focal points of consciousness, love; you may give it any name you like. Love says 'I am everything'. Wisdom says "I am nothing'. Between the two, my life flows. Since at any point of time and space I can be both the subject and the object of experience, I express it by saying that I am both, and neither, and beyond both."
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Nisargadatta Maharaj 138
Indian guru 1897–1981Related quotes
Variant: Science tells me God must exist.
My mind tells me I'll never understand God.
My heart tells me I'm not meant to.
[Vittoria Vetra]
Source: Angels & Demons
“They tell me I am being foolish. Well, foolish I am.”
As quoted in New Castle News (9 December 1967)
Context: I can't play games. I have friends, older women, who tell me I'm foolish to let Roman know how deeply I care about him. They tell me all sorts of things like "keep a man guessing", "men become bored with too much devotion". They tell me I am being foolish. Well, foolish I am.
First address as Vice-President, widely reported as having been delivered while he was inebriated. (5 March 1865).
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The Venetian Bracelet (1829)
“Even if I am dismissed, I can only act as a Christian, as my conscience tells me.”
Quoted in The Independent, Sunday 17 October 2010
