Quotes About Understanding

See how you attempt to bring about change—both in yourself and in others—through the use of punishment and reward, through discipline and control, through sermonizing and guilt, through greed and pride, ambition and vanity, rather than through loving acceptance and patience, painstaking understanding and vigilant awareness.

True tolerance only arises from a keen awareness of the abysmal ignorance of everyone as far as truth is concerned.

EAT YOUR OWN FRUIT A disciple once complained, "You tell us stories, but you never reveal their meaning to us." Said the master, "How would you like it if someone offered you fruit and masticated it before giving it to you?" No one can find your meaning for you. Not even the master.

Love springs from awareness. It is only inasmuch as you see someone as he or she really is here and now, and not as they are in your memory or your desire or in your imagination or projection, that you can truly love them. Otherwise, it is not the person that you love but the idea that you have formed of this person, or this person as the object of your desire, not as he or she is in themselves.

You want to hope for something better than what you have right now, don't you? Otherwise you wouldn't be hoping. But then, you forget that you have it all right now anyway, and you don't know it. Why not concentrate on the now instead of hoping for better times in the future? Why not understand the now instead of forgetting it and hoping for the future? Isn't the future just another trap?

Because agreement and disagreement have to do with words and concepts and theories. They don't have anything to do with truth. Truth is never expressed in words. Truth is sighted suddenly, as a result of a certain attitude.

What we need is not just action that will bring about change but sight that will bring about love.

A story is the shortest distance between a human being and the truth.

The fact is that you're surrounded by God and you don't see God, because you "know" about God. The final barrier to the vision of God is your God concept.

Suffering is a sign that you're out of touch with the truth. Suffering is given to you that you might open your eyes to the truth, that you might understand that there's falsehood somewhere, just as physical pain is given to you so you will understand that there is disease or illness somewhere.

That is how you bring about change in yourself. Not by condemnation, not by calling yourself names, but by understanding what's going on. Not by calling yourself a dirty old sinner.

How can you love someone whom you do not even see?

All revelations, however divine, are never any more than a finger pointing to the moon. As we say in the East, "When the sage points to the moon, all the idiot sees is the finger.

We see things and people not as they are, but as we are.

Tercero: debes comprender que esa «programación» te ha sido impuesta por personas inseguras que, cuando aún eras muy joven e impresionable, te enseñaron, con su comportamiento

??c Jesus trò chuy?n vá»›i nh?ng ng??i cùng Ä'inh, Ä'ói nghèo v? nh?ng l? khôn ngoan trong ??i th??ng. Ngài báo Tin M?ng cho h?: l? khôn ngoan ?y chính là dành cho các b?n. NhÆ°ng ai l?ng nghe? Ch?ng ai thèm ?? ý, h? thích ng? mê hÆ¡n.

?ào th?i, Ä'ào th?i g?n nhÆ° m?i th? b?n Ä'ã h?c. Nhi?t tình Ä'ào th?i và nhi?t tình l?ng nghe.

??ng bi?t chân lý, nhÆ°ng hãy c?m n?m chân lý. Khi b?n c?m n?m ???c chân lý, b?n s? thay ??i. Còn n?u b?n ch? bi?t nó b?ng cái ??u c?a b?n, b?n không thay ??i.

Atrévete a fijarte, sin temor ni fórmula alguna, en todo cuanto te rodea, y no tardarás en ver.

The shortest distance between truth and a human being is a story.

Loneliness is not cured by human company.loneliness is cured by contact with reality,by understanding that we don't need people.

en el individuo fanático que tan sólo se fija en aquello que confirma lo que él cree y apenas percibe cuanto pueda ponerlo en entredicho, y comprenderás lo que tus creencias suponen para ti.

Finalmente,tus miedos: si supieras que

Jamás se ha emborrachado nadie a base de comprender intelectualmente la palabra "vino