Quotes About Understanding

Impatience is the enemy of wisdom; it propels us to jump conclusions, judge and condemn, rather than understand

Accept that nothing happens without a reason. Accept that all experiences have a purpose.

The world that is perceived through any measuring scale is called maya.

When we understand, we do not seek control of the other, hence are liberated. We

Only when there is undiluted compassion for everyone, even our worst enemies, is ego truly conquered. Realization

Dharma is more about empathy than ethics, about intent rather than outcome.

king is a servant when he mimics other kings without understanding. A king is a trader when he uses rules to get all the things that he desires. A king is a master when he uses rules to impose his thoughts on those around him. A king is a seer when he understands the thought behind the rules and so appreciates the many reasons why a rule is followed and why another rule is not.

The purpose of life then is not to change what one did not create. Rather it is to explore this world, experience it, understand it and by doing so discover the truth about oneself.

Your act of vengeance will achieve nothing but create a spiral of vendetta. Find it in your heart to forgive

showing does not guarantee seeing. Telling does not guarantee hearing. Gyana is not vi-gyana.

Do you see me as hero, villain or victim? If yes, then you are not doing darshan. If you can empathize with the fears that make people heroes, villains and victims, then you are doing darshan. For then you look beyond the boundaries that separate you from the rest.

The point of human life is to travel from ignorance to wisdom. In ignorance there is fear. In wisdom there peace and tranquillity.

Only the truly enlightened know the world as it truly is; the rest construct a reality that comforts the ego.

You may value me for what I have and what I do. But I am not what I have or what I do. If you love me, focus on who I am: my hungers and my fears, and my potential to focus on who you are.

Accept that infinite occurrences of the universe cannot be fathomed by the finite human mind.

Vyasa thus shows how confrontation and conflict does not necessarily happen when one is right and the other is wrong; it can happen simply because two people follow different value systems.

Peace comes when one comes to terms with the three worlds: the personal world, the cultural world and the natural world.

you can't read the Vedas; they're meant to be heard. Just the way you can't read the Beatles—you've got to hear them! There

Ancient Hindus believed, wisdom must never be given. It has to be taken.

History seeks to be everyone's truth, but is limited by available facts. More often than not, what is passed off as history is mythology, someone's understanding of truth shaped by memory, feelings and desire, available facts notwithstanding. However, it is never fantasy, or no one's truth.

Such a mind is called manas, which is why humans are called manavas. You are a manava with male flesh and I am a manava with female flesh. We both see the world differently, not because we have different bodies, but because we have different minds. You see the world from one point of view and I see the world from another point of view. But our minds can expand. I can see the world from your point of view and you can see it from mine.

Teachers are as clueless as students.

Because,' Parvati replied, 'marriage is not just the quenching of desire. It is also about looking beyond one's own desires at the desires of others. It is about caring and sharing.' Shiva liked her words and agreed to marry her.

Parrots can remember and repeat words and speak like human beings. But they do not understand what they are saying. As far as they are concerned, these are only sounds that humans have taught them to say.