Quotes About Understanding

Jesus is saying, "Come, come into the Kingdom of Heaven. The Kingdom of Heaven exists on the face of the earth, and men and women do not understand it.

Again, the only way to know that we've seen into the true nature of something is that the story we're telling ourselves releases.

True inquiry is experiential

The word parable comes from a Greek word meaning "comparison or analogy" and is essentially a very brief story that conveys a spiritual truth. A parable is a bit like a riddle: it has a meaning you can't completely understand with the logical, conditioned mind. A parable is meant to present your mind with something that pushes you to go beyond your current level of understanding in order to comprehend it.

Looking at personal issues is like pulling just the top of the weeds out of your lawn: they pop right back up. You may have some relief from the trouble of the day, but the root is still there, totally untouched. But having experiences, even if they clear up problems or offer beautiful insights, is very different than finding the root of who you are. If you don't get to the root, you just get another weed.

Enlightenment is nothing more than the complete absence of resistance to what is.

This is how I love you, and this is how you shall love all beings and all things.

Forgive them, for they know not what they do.

It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish.

Wisdom comes through suffering.

Oh, it is easy for the one who stands outside the prison-wall of pain to exhort and teach the one who suffers.

Truly even he errs that is wiser than the wise.

It is best for the wise man not to seem wise.

It is good even for old men to learn wisdom.

To learn is to be young, however old.

Time, as it grows old, teaches all things.

Memory is the mother of all wisdom.

PROMETHEUS: 'Oh, it is easy for the one who stands outside the prison-wall of pain to exhort and teach the one who suffers

Acquaintance softens prejudice.

Give assistance, not advice, in a crisis.

He who asks questions, cannot avoid the answers

By the time the fool has learned the game, the players have dispersed

A camel never sees its own hump.

God conceals himself from the mind of man, but reveals himself to his heart.