Quotes About Understanding

you look at your child with intelligence, do you see that to get him everything that he asks for is sheer stupidity?

Questioner: One question comes to my mind: if everybody looked inward, what would happen? Sadhguru: You would have a sensible world. (Laughs) Is that a danger?

Human perception through the sense organs is always piecemeal. It can give you an illusion of completeness but can never comprehend the whole.

Discern the real from the illusory, what is existentially true from what is psychologically true.

Seeking is not about looking for something. It is about enhancing your perception, your very faculty of seeing.

The intellect, which is based on memory, is a wonderful tool. However, it can only inform; it cannot transform.

For most yogis and mystics, the problem has been that they could never share the fruits of their realization with people around them. To find another person capable of receiving what you know is not easy. If you find even one person you are fortunate.

The intellect cannot laugh, it can only dissect.

They say how long a minute is essentially depends on which side of the bathroom door you are! Those inside say, "Just a minute, I'm coming." That one minute, for the person outside, is an eternity!

It is a distorted perception if you think that just by looking through a keyhole, you have seen the world.

If you understand there is nothing to lose, because anyway you came with nothing and there is nothing to lose, the fear of death will not be relevant.

The logical and experiential dimensions of life work in diametrically opposite ways. Logic is not without its uses, but these help only to handle the material aspects of life. If you handle your entire life with logic alone, you will end up a mess.

the more profound your understanding of the human mechanism is, the more magical your life will be.

Karma is not a doctrine. You do not get any brownie points for subscribing to it. You do not get any negative marks for disbelieving it. Karma is not a creed, a scripture, an ideology, a philosophy, or a theory. It is simply the way things are. It is an existential mechanism. Like the sun, it operates whether you acknowledge it or not, whether you pay obeisance to it or ignore it. It is not looking for a fan club.

Guru" literally means "dispeller of darkness.

Of all emotions, compassion is the highest that man can experience. When someone lives in compassion, not just love, only then he is a real seeker, because very easily love becomes attachment and a bias. Love can become a great prejudice against you, somebody else, or anything.

To the same degree that your understanding of and attitude towards Afrika becomes more positive, your understanding of and attitude towards yourself will also becomes more positive...

Truth does not change, only our awareness of it.

Let's cool it, brothers.

Betty's a good Muslim woman and wife. I don't imagine many other women might put up with the way I am. Awakening this brainwashed black man and telling this arrogant, devilish white man the truth about himself, Betty understands, is a full-time job

I read aimlessly, until I learned to read selectively, with a purpose.

No one will know who we are... until we now who we are! We will be able to go anywhere until we know where we are!

I have wife who understands, or even if she doesn't she at least pretends.

One day, may we all meet together in the light of understanding