Quotes About Understanding

Judge not, that ye be not judged. For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again.

The Children of this world are in their own generation wiser than the children of God

I spend more time learning about Buddhism than English, which is why my English today is still bad.

All this time it had been quite plain to Hare that the others knew nothing about Spectacles.

Forgiveness is the needle that knows how to mend.

I think when kids just see well-crafted poetry, it's just obtuse to them. It's hard to relate to.

Feelings are your soul's way of communicating. Pain is trying to teach you something, and if you don't listen now, it will speak louder and louder until it is heard.

The person inside is looking for the same thing as their neighbor- freedom, expression, acceptance, love.

Loving my son has helped me to love myself more.

It was hard to bear your soul while someone was talking to their friend about a new sweater they bought.

The words strike like they never did before. Before words were flat. Now I hear them - understand in a new way.

When asked a question, class, it's important to consider how it's framed. Sometimes a question is a door to another question, another way of seeing. Understanding.

Grant, Lord, that we might overcome our enemies by transforming them into friends. Make them and make us conscious of those deep inward reaches whereby every heart is rooted in our world's deep common life.

As you teach, you learn.

Make sure to be in with your equals if you're going to fall out with your superiors.

A boil is no big deal. On someone else's neck.

You know what goes on in this world. They don't understand. They don't see that long after their laughter subsides, in search of the next cheap thrill, their victims are still hearing the taunts in their heads. A cacophony of degrading noise, poisoning perception.

I don't particularly dislike any kind of person that might be reading my stuff. They like it and that's cool, but I don't do the work for any kind of group in particular, except for hobos, who just plain kick ass and light up my life.

They were things for which it was impossible to prepare but which one spent a lifetime looking back at, trying to accept, interpret, comprehend. Things that should never have happened, that seemed out of place and wrong, these were what prevailed, what endured, in the end.

Somehow, bad news, however ridden with static, however filled with echoes, always manages to be conveyed.

And yet he had loved her. A Bookish girl heedless of her beauty, unconscious of her effect. She'd been prepared to live her life alone but from the moment he'd known her he'd needed her.

Stop talking, stop thinking, and there is nothing you will not understand. Return to the root and you will find Meaning.

If we can really understand the problem, the answer will come out of it, because the answer is not separate from the problem.

So when you are listening to somebody, completely, attentively, then you are listening not only to the words, but also to the feeling of what is being conveyed, to the whole of it, not part of it.