• The most visible things are often overlooked.
  • The heaviest burden is having nothing to carry on.
  • Only an empty space can be filled.
  • The light is most visible in the deepest dark.
  • Believing not to believe anything easily is a way of wisdom.
  • Power is only justified if it asks against tyranny of power.
  • The solution can be part of the problem.
  • To understand life, you must contemplate death.
  • Knowledge is when you realize you know not much at all.
  • True growth is measured by what you shed, not what you accumulate.
  • The fastest way is to slow down.
  • The heaviest chains are the ones we cannot see.
  • The truest understanding is born from confusion.
  • Impermanence is the only permanent thing.
  • True control starts with letting go.
  • The beginning of the end is the end of the beginning.
  • Science is the dogma against dogma.
  • The most powerful action is often inaction.
  • To create space, one must erect boundaries.
  • To truly see the world, you must close your eyes.
  • What is most real cannot be realized easily.
  • We have no choice but to believe that we have free will.
  • Only when we understand moving, we can stop.
  • The path to fulfillment is the path without strong desires.
  • You have to become nobody to be yourself.
  • True infinite must contain finite.
  • Presence is defined by the vastness of absence.
  • The ultimate freedom is realizing how bound you are.
  • To find the most profound meaning, one must embrace meaninglessness.
  • Order is merely a specific manifestation of chaos.
  • To question everything itself is the answer.
  • The understanding of the problem is realizing there was no actual problem.
  • The most solid thing is emptiness.
  • The source of all beings is non-being.
  • To learn something, one needs to unlearn first.


In life, there are moments when we strive immensely to understand things, when we long for answers, clarity, and a sense of control. But life, in its stubborn way, rarely obliges. It often presents us with contradictions, with ideas that seem to pull us in two directions at once. At first, these can feel frustrating, like incompatible, broken pieces. Yet, over time, looking closely, we might come to see something else entirely. It is that these very contradictions, these conflicts, are not signs of a weakness in our thinking, but rather secret doors leading to a deeper understanding.


Wisdom, it turns out, does not arrive with bold headlines or loud pronouncements. It comes quietly. Knowing facts or being clever in conversation is not the same as wisdom. Wisdom grows precisely when we know that we do not have all the answers, and perhaps, just perhaps, there will never be any fixed answers at all. It isn’t something that asserts itself loudly. Wisdom can speak in a whisper. It knows how to reside in questions, in the quiet spaces between uncertainty and doubt.


Consider learning. We often imagine it as a staircase, where each piece of information is a new step upwards. But perhaps true learning is more like standing on the shore of a vast ocean. The more we understand, the more we see how much we do not understand. It is a beautifully humbling realization. For every answer we gain, ten new questions should, if we are learning properly, open up. Coming to know the unknown should feel exhilarating. This is not a failure. It is the very nature of learning. True wisdom begins at the moment we truly grasp how much remains unknown. The unknown is infinite.


Let us think of something else. To move forward, we sometimes need to stop. To know who we are, we sometimes need to get a little lost first. It can feel strange, even wrong. But confusion is not always the enemy. Our most meaningful moments, the times when we truly grow, often arrive within uncertainty. When the path isn’t clear, we begin to look inwards. And in doing so, we discover things we had not noticed before. A different form of clarity begins to emerge.


Our world is filled with stories we tell ourselves to make assumptions feel solid. We believe in things like nations, money, and rules. None of these can be touched and pointed to with the same certainty as a tree or a stone. Yet they feel real. Why? Because we all collectively agree they are important. These shared beliefs give shape to our societies and our lives. We may know that the world is constantly changing, that nothing is fixed (the concept of Anatta). But even in this world of impermanence, the human mind still needs something solid to hold onto. And so we must choose to hold onto certain ideas, certain stories. It is existence itself. It is what the brain is designed to do. Even if they are not "truths" in a rigid sense, are they not useful? Do they not help us live together, dream together, and build futures together?


So, contradiction is not a problem to be rooted out. It is a teacher. It shows us that two things can be true at the same time, even if they appear to contradict one another. Think about it: There can be uncertainty within certainty. There can be control found in letting go. There can be greater progress made when we know when to stop. These ideas do not cancel contradictions out. They expand us. They can make us deeper, kinder, more open humans.


And perhaps the greatest contradiction of all is wisdom itself. We often search for wisdom as if it were a treasure at the end of a long road. But wisdom is not a prize we win; it is the way we travel. It is the way of learning to live with contradictions, rather than rushing to resolve them. It is the way of learning to smile amidst ignorance. It is the way of holding questions, not answers, in our hearts.


Welcome conflict, not with fear, but like an old friend. It will challenge you. It will surprise you. But over time, it might just lead you to a form of wisdom more gentle, more profound, and more radiant than anything you thought you, my friend, were searching for.