Quotes About Understanding

Thoreau writes, "Is there a greater miracle than to see through another's eyes, even for an instant?

other people want to feel important and loved. Just that. [author's patient, Phil]

Clearly recognizing what is happening inside us, and regarding what we see with an open, kind and loving heart, is what I call Radical Acceptance.

I tried to comfort him by explaining that when we really spend time with any living beings—as he had with the ants—we find out that they are real. They are changing, animated, hungry, social. Like us, their life is fragile and they want to stay alive. His playmates hadn't had the chance to get to know ants in the way he did, I told him. If they had, they wouldn't want to injure them either.

we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility. • HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW

As we figuratively sit beside ourselves and inquire, listen and name our experience, we see Mara clearly and open our heart in tenderness for the suffering before us.

Neither of us says anything. Why would we? There is nothing to say.

Every human walks around with a certain kind of sadness. They may not wear it on their sleeves, but it's there if you look deep.

you must make your thoughts, views, game, and knowledge her views as well. You must plant your ideology in her mind. This way you both will be on the same page. Your

Duboko i jednostavno: onaj ko ne može voljeti, ne može ni razumjeti.

Human] wisdom is the believer's lost belonging; he is the most worthy of it wherever he finds it.

Il faut désormais faire entendre la voix de ceux qui construisent des ponts, et non plus le seul vacarme de ceux qui détruisent et cloisonnent.

Comprendre n'est pas justifier, l'empathie autorise cette distinction et l'intelligence permet, par la compréhension, d'adopter une position critique nous permettant de chercher des solutions.

Leçon: Ne jamais réduire l'autre à la perception que l'on peut en avoir, à ses problèmes, à sa pauvreté ou à ses crises.

À la lumière de cette tradition, et dans l'esprit de Montaigne, je dirais que lorsque je discute avec un individu avec qui je suis ou non d'accord, s'il a une bonne idée, c'est la mienne, et s'il en a une mauvaise, eh bien, c'est la sienne. Ce rapport à autrui est celui que les civilisations devraient nourrir entre elles; malheureusement, on retient souvent le moins bon des civilisations dominantes.

One must gradually learn the truth about the boundaries between what is great and what is small.

Those who did that thing were human beings, na. We should ask ourselves why human beings behave in such a way. Otherwise nothing can change. (Mommy-Ji)

he returned to his barricaded silence, locking me out of his world. The unfathomable, inscrutable East, I thought. I was cut adrift from the shores of understanding. The sea spread itself before me, leading to a blank, blank horizon.

Friendship is not necessary for closeness

As we experience things, they happen too quickly to be thoughly analyzed...

I think that as we experience things, they happen too quickly to be thoroughly analyzed.

knew without question what I had seen. Adelaide and Penelope's mother could now, at last, rest in peace. I also knew without question that this information would be best kept from my husband. There is no point in trying to convert those who don't believe.

I decided to let him have his delusion of always being right. Marriage requires many such moments.

I guess the truth is we never know every detail about another person.