“From defilement can come much wisdom”— Ajahn Po Related Quotes “Her shut-eyed smile transformed itself into something else: the smile of someone brave and knowing, someone whose pain had made her wise.”— Wally Lamb “I needed more knowledge in rigging and knotting. I started collecting books on knots and really learning more and more. That’s how it started. And also in magic, of course. With a piece of rope, you can do magic.”— Philippe Petit “Suffering is a form of knowledge. It tells us what is wrong with our world.”— David Smail