Quotes About Understanding

El arte del mando era tratar con la naturaleza humana

la amistad se nutre de rondas de vino, estocadas hombro con hombro y silencios oportunos

Es su manera de hablar. Callándose.

Y supo de mujeres capaces de desmontar con minuciosidad de relojero los resortes que mueven a un hombre.

En la vida lo malo no es conocer, sino mostrar que se conoce. Tan peligroso resulta ser poco discreto revelando que uno sabe de más, como caer en la simpleza de saber de menos. Siempre es bueno prevenir la música antes de que empiece el baile.

En la vida lo malo no es conocer, sino mostrar que se conoce. Iñigo Balboa

A medida que transcurría el tiempo, se afirmaba en la certeza de que el mundo y la vida eran más fáciles de entender a través de un libro.

Usted y yo estamos dentro del prodigioso ámbito de la madurez, en el que la locura y la cordura ya no son pasiones, sino condimentos que la experiencia enseña a combinar deliciosamente.

Qué culpa tengo yo? ?Ninguna, niña, ninguna. Todos los novios se pelean. Y la mitad del gusto de ser novios está en pelear para contentarse y volver a pelear para volver a contentarse. [...] Los casados pelean menos. Los que pelean son los que se quieren.

Every time you feel great anger, stop and write down who or what caused your feelings and why you reacted so angrily. The goal is to get to the root of the anger. Only when you understand the source can you find a solution.

Respect and humility go together. Humility is not meekness, but the opposite of arrogance. A wise old Indian man once said, "Empty drums make the loudest noise." Grandfather often repeated this phrase to indicate that those with the least understanding are the most arrogant.

Since our understanding of Truth itself does not remain constant, one who is determined to pursue it diligently must constantly test and reexamine his or her views.

The most futile cry of man is his impossible wish to be understood

Suffering is real. To urge anything that dismisses it as 'unreal' is to mock the pain of another.

To love. To be loved. To never forget your own insignificance. To never get used to the unspeakable violence and the vulgar disparity of life around you. To seek joy in the saddest places. To pursue beauty to its lair. To never simplify what is complicated or complicate what is simple. To respect strength, never power. Above all, to watch. To try and understand. To never look away. And never, never to forget.

That's what careless words do. They make people love you a little less.

This was the trouble with families. Like invidious doctors, they knew just where it hurt.

In the view presented by the Madhyamakavatara (Tib. dbu ma la 'jug pa) the dharmadhatu is to be understood exclusively as freedom from conceptual elaboration. The aspect of primordial wisdom is not explained there. This difference should be understood well.

Annotation 50: What is to be understood by primordial wisdom and discriminative wisdom is explained slightly differently in the Rangtong and Shäntong systems.

As a beginner, one first has to give rise to compassion focusing on beings as its object. Once one realizes the impermanent nature of beings and phenomena, understanding that all compounded phenomena are impermanent in that they undergo a process of destruction taking place from instant to instant, compassion focusing on the nature arises. Finally, the realization of the emptiness of all phenomena gives rise to compassion free from any focus.

Understanding is the level immediately below Wisdom. It is on the level of Understanding that ideas exist separately, where they can be scrutinized and comprehended. While Wisdom is pure undifferentiated Mind, Understanding is the level where division exists, and where things are delineated and defined as separated objects.

Love. It is a word that means nothing and everything at the same time.

Relative and ultimate, These the two truths are declared to be. The ultimate is not within the reach of intellect, For intellect is said to be the relative.

Although it is their sticks that hurt me, I am angry at the ones who wield them, striking me. But they in turn are driven by their hatred; Therefore with their hatred I should take offence.