Quotes About Understanding

I believe much trouble would be saved if we opened our hearts more.

Happiness depends on how you accept, understand and surrender to situations.

You cannot transcend what you do not know. To go beyond yourself, you must know yourself.

Asking good questions is half of learning.

The way to change others' minds is with affection, and not anger.

Differences of habit and language are nothing at all if our aims are identical and our hearts are open.

Obedience to God's will is the secret of spiritual knowledge and insight.

Human relations are built on feeling, not on reason or knowledge. And feeling is not an exact science; like all spiritual qualities, it has the vagueness of greatness about it.

You think because you understand 'one' you must also understand 'two', because one and one make two. But you must also understand 'and'.

One of the greatest indicators of our own spiritual maturity is revealed in how we respond to the weaknesses, the inexperience, and the potentially offensive actions of others.

Confidence without clarity is always a disaster.

If you knew the immensity of what it means to be human, you would not talk about God or Heaven.

In the chakras, it's the heart chakra, anahata, the central chakra, three above and three below, which symbolizes happiness and love, psychic oneness, spiritual understanding.

If a person seems wicked, do not cast him away. Awaken him with your words, elevate him with your deeds, repay his injury with your kindness. Do not cast him away; cast away his wickedness.

Listening is a form of spiritual hospitality by which you invite strangers to become friends, to get to know their inner selves more fully, and even to dare to be silent with you.

Men who are devoid of the power of spiritual perception are unable to recognize anything that cannot be seen externally.

Reason is powerless in the expression of Love.

Heartbreak makes us stronger; it's an opportunity for spiritual growth. How can you understand someone else's pain if you have not yourself suffered?

To start from the self and try to understand all things is delusion. To let the self be awakened by all things is enlightenment.

It is one of the commonest of our mistakes to consider that the limit of our power of perception is also the limit of all that there is to perceive.

One who explores and knows all aspects of his life, is called self-realized.

Spiritual depression or unhappiness in the Christian life is very often due to our failure to realize the greatness of the gospel.

Learning is experience. Everything else is just information.

Isn't is amazing that almost everyone has an opinion to offer about the Bible, and yet so few have studied it?