Quotes About Understanding

There is an immense, painful longing for a broader, more flexible, fuller, more coherent, more comprehensive account of what we human beings are, who we are and what this life is for.

In a way then, the Divine Principle, this new revelation, is the documentary of my life. It is my own life experience. The Divine Principle is in me, and I am in the Divine Principle.

The whole problem of life, then, is this: how to break out of one's own loneliness, how to communicate with others.

Be fond of hearing rather than of talking.

Regrets are only felt by those who do not understand life's purpose.

Accept that your life is going on beyond your usual understanding.

I don't want to spend my life explaining myself. You either get it, or you don't.

Life is not about making dough or how many movies you can make in a year. It's about finding someone that you can share things with.

Cancer came back into my life twice in order for me to understand something, and I guess I still wasn't getting it. And my husband wasn't getting it, either.

Understanding a person's hunger and responding to it is one of the most potent tools you'll ever discover for getting through to anyone you meet in business or your personal life.

The more you explain it, the more I don't understand it.

There was a weird, innate kind of understanding between me and Christina (Ricci). A psychic told us we were sisters in a past life.

To talk to someone who does not listen is enough to tense the devil.

If we take judging ourselves and others out of our life, we will mostly be living in paradise.

Biblical counseling is listening to a person long enough until you hear a violation of scripture.

Real life does not come naturally. It is counterintuitive. It is a skill we have to learn. That's because the way to real life is not something we get, but something we give.

But if you really want to learn about life, get a cat. The way I think people should relate to animals is with a cat. Because the world is his.

I look down the farthest side of the mountain, fulfilled and understanding all, and truly content that I lived a full life and one that was my own choice

And all meet in singing, which braids together the different knowings into a wide and subtle music, the music of living.

Those who are critical of my goals and dreams simply do not understand the higher purpose to which I have been called.

You have to experience life, make observations, and ask questions.

Not all is doom and gloom. We are beginning to understand the natural world and are gaining a reverence for life - all life.

See into life, don't just look at it

Consciousness is the mere surface of our minds, of which, as of the earth, we do not know the inside, but only the crust.