Quotes About Understanding

Certainty comes as you move away from facts.

Dharma is not about winning. It is about empathy and growth. Yudhishtira knows the pain of losing a child. He can empathize with his enemy rather than gloat on their defeat. In empathy, there is wisdom.

what cannot be understood by the human intellect need not be feared because it ultimately comes from God.

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

The aim of his narrative is to remind all not to judge people without knowing their story. Even the worst of villains has a story that perhaps explains their actions, without condoning them.

According to the Jatakas, the Buddha was born as a frog in one of his previous lives. He saw a snake being attacked by a school of fish. The snake asked, 'Is this appropriate?' to which the frog replied, 'You eat the fish when they enter your territory. The fish attack you when you enter theirs. Considering the context, what is happening now is surely appropriate.

Those who believed they were righteous never listened.

Empathy enables exchange

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

observers create observations!

Unless there is empathy and inclusion, dharma cannot be established. Bhima

The word 'darshan' has a double meaning: view as well as worldview, sight as well as insight.

Travel, realized the wise men, was an important way to widen the outlook of otherwise inward-looking communities.

The world that you perceive is actually a delusion (maya) based on your chosen measuring scale.

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.

Brahma is the human mind that misbehaves. Shiva is the human mind that vehemently rejects this misbehaviour. Vishnu is the human mind that does not condone this misbehaviour, yet understands it. What is this misbehaviour?

Thus, showing does not guarantee seeing. Telling does not guarantee hearing.

If she is wise, she will accommodate the inadequacy. If he is wise, he will strive to grow,' said Sita, still looking at Ahilya and the hesitant tenderness of Gautama. Kushadhvaja

To see the world from another's point of view, and make sense of it.

To see the world from another's point of view, and make sense of it.' 'I think it has blossomed in Ram.

True love is the ability to love people despite their mistakes.

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

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.

Indian sages avoided the written word as they realized ideas were never definitive; they were transformed depending on the intellectual and emotional abilities of the giver as well as the receiver.