Quotes About Understanding

When you have a spiritual foundation, you look at poverty differently then.

In order to approach a creation as sublime as the Bhagavad-Gita with full understanding it is necessary to attune our soul to it.

It is easy to love people when they smell good, but sometimes they slip into the manure of life and smell awful. You must love them just as much when they smell foul.

You should study not only that you become a mother when your child is born, but also that you become a child.

When the mind sees itself in the mirror of relationship, from that perception there is self-knowledge.

One's spiritual realization lies in none other than how one walks among and interacts with one's fellow beings.

The sage embraces things. Ordinary men discriminate amongst them and parade their discriminations before others. So I say; those who discriminate, fail to see.

Human unity is not something we are called on to create — only something we are called on to recognize.

Are you aware of the significance of every thought, of every reaction that you happen to have?

Empathy is really the opposite of spiritual meanness. It's the capacity to understand that every war is both won and lost. And that someone else's pain is as meaningful as your own.

Intelligence is of paramount importance to live life sensibly, because without intelligence, there is no clarity. And Clarity is intelligence everyone is capable of.

I invite you to not only love each other more but love each other better.

It is the pain of ignorance which makes one into a seeker.

Interethnic and spiritual accord is our strategic resource, the basis for progress of our society and state.

In the spiritual realm, the opposite of ignorance is not knowledge, it's obedience.

Things do not have meaning. We assign meaning to everything.

When people are like each other they tend to like each other.

Don't get angry. Try not to speak roughly or use harsh words.

He who knows does not speak. He who speaks does not know.

The more you know yourself, the more clarity there is.

In spiritual maturity, the opposite of injustice is not justice but compassion.

Eternity is not the hereafter...this is it. If you don't get it here you won't get it anywhere.

Intuition is the source of scientific knowledge.

So often among so-called "primitives" one comes across spiritual personalities who immediately inspire respect, as though they were the fully matured products of an undisturbed fate.