Quotes About Understanding

She said my problem was that I saw things in people that they didn't see in themselves.

the key to understanding Hinduism is that it is one faith that claims no monopoly on the Truth.

But in looking to understand the forces that have made us and nearly unmade us, and in hoping to recognize possible future sources of conflict in the new millennium, we have to realize that sometimes the best crystal ball is a rear-view mirror.

We tend to reduce everyone else to the limits of our own mental universe and begin privileging our own ethics, morality, sense of duty and even our sense of utility. All religious conflicts arose from this propensity to judge others. If we indeed must judge at all, then it must be "according to his own ideal, and not by that of anyone else".

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history is neither for excuses nor for revenge

Ekam sat vipra bahudha vadanti: the Truth is One but sages call It by different names.

Conforme oramos y leemos la Biblia y nos conectamos con lo que dice, ¡la mente de Dios y la nuestra empiezan a conectarse! No es sólo una cosa invisible; nuestra red neurológica realmente se expande. Tanto nuestro cerebro como nuestro espíritu maduran juntos.

See, you smart, James. You sit and watch everyone, and you know stuff without having to run your mouth. I'm always running my mouth, which gets my release took away and a bunch of knows in my head.

I married the person who understood my heart & nourished my dreams. The end.

And she understood now that love wasn't just wanting, but a steady devotion, no matter what.

I've never seen a more expressive woman. Or maybe I'm just reading her better because I'm so in tune with her. I can't say, and I can't spare the energy to figure it out now. Whatever it is about her, about us together, it makes me ache and sweat.

Much of our understanding of God's action in outlying is achieved in hindsight. When a particular crisis or event in our life has passed we cry out in astonishment like Jacob, The Lord is in this place and I never knew it.

Do not judge others, and you will not be judged. Do not condemn others, or it will all come back against you. Forgive others, and you will be forgiven." Luke 6:37

Children are the best recorders of information - they miss nothing; but they are the poorest interpreters.

Love prospers when a fault is forgiven, but dwelling on it separates close friends. Proverbs 17:9

My ears had heard of you but now my eyes have seen you" (Job 42:5).

I was learning the truth: though I felt lonely and scared, I was the well-loved girl of God. And though these feelings of loneliness were familiar, I was coming into an understanding: just because a place has become familiar doesn't mean its where you belong.

The best that any education can do is to add understanding of the past and present, to gird one for the future, to sharpen the intelligence, to enable one to evaluate whatever comes along, to listen, to learn, to question, to be interested in what is going on, to be involved, to believe "this concerns me," above all to keep the mind alive. This is what I believe Scott Fitzgerald did for me in his College of One.

So I had decided to do it the easy way. Make them believe he was insane and the scales would fall from their eyes; they would 'understand'; the fear, the hate would be gone, evaporated. "So thats it," they would say; "he's crazy. I knew it all along." They might even begin to pity and sympathize. Good old Hollywood Christianity: God's gift to the Defense.

What's the harm in letting him have his fling?" he remarked of one of the worst of these; "If he did not pitch into me, he would into some poor fellow he might hurt

Books about war were written to be read by God Almighty, because no one but God ever saw it that way.

I asked myself, again and again: 'What does it mean? What does it mean?' And you know, I finally found the answer; one answer, anyhow. It dont mean a thing. Nothing. Why should it mean anything? I stopped thinking about it is what I finally did. It's what you better do, too. Dont think about it.

If you think you are having a problem with God, just try to imagine the problem He/She is having with you! There is no way to know God's Will, unless I do it.