Quotes About Understanding

Meditation is not a withdrawal from life. Meditation is a process of understanding oneself.

As long as you have certain desires about how it ought to be you can't see how it is.

Whole-hearted listening is the greatest spiritual gift you can give to the other person.

If you meet someone whose soul is not aligned with yours, send them love and move along.

The fact that you are willing to say, 'I do not understand, and it is fine,' is the greatest understanding you could exhibit.

Tolerance is a sign of growth on the spiritual path

She loved me coming and going, at my worst and at my best. She had a bottomless well of love for me.

For until ye become as a savior, as a help to some soul that has lost hope, lost its way, ye do not fully comprehend the god within, the god without.

Understanding dissolves fear. When we understand the true nature of our being, fears dissipate. We are spiritual beings, not human beings.

Where is God? Where can I find him?" we ask. We don't realize that's like a fish swimming frantically through the ocean in search OF the ocean

God's Word, when rightly expounded, is medicinal for a whole host of spiritual diseases.

The range of what we think and do is limited by what we fail to notice.

Make no judgments where you have no compassion.

Men have to descend from their pedestal and learn how to be more broadminded and spiritual.

Spiritual matters are difficult to explain because you must live with them in order to fully understand them.

We have artists with no scientific knowledge and scientists with no artistic knowledge and both with no spiritual sense of gravity at all, and the result is not just bad, it is ghastly.

I once had a thousand desires. But in my one desire to know you all else melted away.

The spiritual thirst that is latent in everybody can never come to a place of fulfillment unless people begin to think of each other as potential brothers and sisters.

Just as the thought of fire does not warm the body, so faith without love does not actualize the light of spiritual knowledge in the soul.

Do not pursue what should be, but understand what is.

There's a big difference between being able to explain religion intellectually and transforming that knowledge into spiritual experience.

People need each other and think it is love. There's no hanging on to, or fencing in, of the other one when one loves.

When "I" and "You" are absent, I've no idea if this is a mosque, synagogue, church or temple

You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it.