Quotes About Understanding

I could have made my whole life like that morning just on the strength of pure understanding and willingness to live and go along, God it was all the most beautiful thing that ever happened to me in its own way - but it was all sinister.

When I got better I realized what a rat he was, but then I had to understand the impossible complexity of his life, how he had to leave me there, sick, to get on with his wives and woes.

Soon I'll find the right words, they'll be very simple.

finally I went over to an old cook in the doorway of the kitchen and asked him "Why did Bodhidharma come from the West?" (Bodhidharma was the Indian who brought Buddhism eastward to China.) "I don't care," said the old cook, with lidded eyes, and I told Japhy and he said, "Perfect answer, absolutely perfect. Now you know what I mean by Zen.

the point being that we know what IT is and we know TIME and we know that everything is really FINE...

It was probably the pivotal point of our friendship when he realized I had actually spent some hours thinking about him and his troubles, and he was trying to place that in his tremendously involved and tormented mental categories. Something clicked in both of us.

I'm afraid that you'll never understand me fully, and because of that, sometimes you'll be frightened, disgusted, annoyed, or pleased. The thing that makes me different from all of you is the vast inner life I have. I just thrive in this, by nature. The bigger and deeper this inner life grows, the less anyone of you will understand me. That's okay.

I suddenly realized that all these women were spending months of loneliness and womanliness together, chatting about the madness of the men.

My aunt once said the world would never find peace until men fell at their women's feet and asked for forgiveness.

I had an overwhelming urge to close my eyes in company. I think the girls were terrified of this. "What's he always sitting with his eyes closed for?

All dogs love God. They're wiser than their masters.

Nonetheless we understood each other on other levels of madness...

This is the way I like it, when you get going there's just no need to talk, as if we were animals and just communicated by silent telepathy

This is the way I like it, when you get going there's just no need to talk, as if we were animals and just communicated by silent telepathy

When you write about the Banana King you write about the human-interest things of life." I told him I didn't give a damn about the Banana King. "Until you learn to realize the importance of the Banana King you will know absolutely nothing about the human-interest things of the world," said Remi emphatically.

And in fact I can see in Cody's eyes that he can see in my own eyes the regret we both feel that recently we havent had chances to talk whatever

Se continuate così diventerete pazzi tutti e due, però fatemi sapere quel che succede mentre procedete.»

We communicate to each other depthlessly, without the words we use.

I wanted to go and get Ruth again and tell her a lot more things, and really make love to her this time, and calm her fears about men. Boys and girls in America have such a sad time together; sophistication that they submit to sex immediately without proper preliminary talk. Not courting talk - real straight talk about souls, for life is holy and every moment is precious.

I liked this one One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple. --Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums

Nunca me reprochó que le hubiera quitado a la chica; al contrario, eso siempre nos había unido aún más; era un amigo leal y me quería de verdad, Dios sabe por qué

Kenneth Wood was sitting on the windowsill looking at him sardonically, yet with that sadness that always happened when they looked at each other - as though there was something they knew that nobody else knew, a crazy sorrowful knowledge of themselves in the middle of the pitiable world.

As though all the world were a bad joke and she was the only one around who knew the punchline.

When we let go of our battles and open our heart to things as they are, then we come to rest in the present moment. This is the beginning and the end of spiritual practice. Only in this moment can we discover that which is timeless. Only here can we find the love that we seek. Love in the past is simply memory, and love in the future is fantasy. Only in the reality of the present can we love, can we awaken, can we find peace and understanding and connection with ourselves and the world.