Quotes About Understanding

Love isn't something we can understand because it's not able to be grasped by the mind. Love is not in the mind's or the ego's domain. It's a quality of Essence—of who we really are—and that is too mysterious for the mind to be able to contemplate. And the mind doesn't want to. Yet love is where fulfillment lies and why relationships are so important to us.

Love is possible only when you drop all ideas and beliefs and meet another just as he or she is showing up in the moment, fresh and new.

That judgments close hearts should be pretty obvious. Judgments come from a closed heart, so naturally they also cause others to close their hearts. Judgments are a perfect example of an internal reality, or climate, determining one's external reality. When you openly judge others, you will be judged in return, as predictably as the night follows the day.

antidote to judgment is accepting people the way they are and not imposing our desires and expectations on them. Our

When we relate from Essence, the dominant feeling is acceptance: You allow others to be the way they are. In fact, you celebrate how they are. This doesn't mean you might not dislike something about them, but the general feeling toward them is that everything is just right as it is.

love is allowing: You allow the person to be exactly the way he or she is without any reservations or desires for anything to be different than it is.

Becoming aware of the beliefs behind the emotional wound frees you from this cycle of pain and hurt.

As a baby, you saw reality clearly; however, you had no way of organizing and understanding what you saw. As you developed, language gave you a way of organizing the massive amounts of data that your senses delivered to your brain. Language also gave you a way to communicate with others. It allowed you to form relationships, survive, and carry out tasks in the world. What a miracle and gift language is!

Nothing is ever lost in choosing love. Your judgments never worked anyway. They only created anger, hurt, and separation. When you see the truth of this, it becomes much easier to choose love over judgment.

It doesn't take the partner's words and actions personally.

Love thrives when we accept others as they are, while allowing them to grow, develop, and be as they are meant to be. This is the kind of environment that we, as parents, would hope to provide our children. Being there for others, supporting their growth, supporting them in their trials, and celebrating life with them is a great service to others.

look into her eyes is to see

But don't make the mistake that so many parents make and allow your desire for changed behavior to replace your desire for a changed heart. If you can reach the heart, the behavior will take care of itself. Keep in mind that it is possible to cause your child to change his irritating behavior to that which is acceptable without an actual heart change taking place.

When two people love each other, they don't look at each other, they look in the same direction.

One can't judge Wagner's opera Lohengrin after a first hearing, and I certainly don't intend to hear it a second time.

Peace is the respect for the rights of the other person.

Time is the father of truth, its mother is our mind.

Deve-se compreender, pois, que a semelhança não envolve proporcionalidade.

Burchio. Even if this be true I do not wish to believe it, for this Infinite can neither be understood by my head nor brooked by my stomach. Although, to tell the truth, I could yet hope that Philotheo were right, so that if by ill luck I were to fall from this world I should always find myself on firm ground.

Sólo sabe vincular aquél que penetra la razón de todo; o al menos la naturaleza, disposición, inclinación, actitud, utilidad y objetivo de aquella realidad particular que debe vincularse.

One of the lessons of Auschwitz is that it is infinitely harder to grasp the mind of an ordinary person than to understand the mind of a Spinoza or Dante.

Nella vita, se uno vuol capire, capire sul serio come stanno le cose di questo mondo, deve morire almeno una volta. E allora, dato che la legge è questa, meglio morire da giovani, quando uno ha ancora tanto tempo davanti a sé per tirarsi su e risuscitare... Capire da vecchi è brutto, molto più brutto. Come si fa? Non c'è più tempo per ricominciare da zero

Nella vita, se uno vuol capire, capire sul serio come stanno le cose di questo mondo, deve morire almeno una volta. E allora, dato che la legge è questa, meglio morire da giovani, quando uno ha ancora tanto tempo davanti a sé, per tirarsi su e risuscitare...Capire da vecchi è brutto, molto più brutto.

I have always understood that there is a kind of philosophical language which is only accessible to special philosophers