Quotes About Understanding

I've always expressed my thoughts in color but we remain blind.

Damn you! Just ask me to wait and I will, ask me to understand that things will be difficult but that when this period is over, we'll be happy and in love and together. Please stop with the dreaded respect line. I don't want you to respect me. I want you to want me.

It is a truth universally acknowledged that time moves differently for men.

Know ye yet the edda? Know ye yet it all?

he learned much from his avowed enemy: their trade routes, their science and mapmaking

You are an epiphany.

An image resists explanation. You relate to it or you do not. You cannot disagree with an image. Through identification with an image you comprehend a totality, rather than learn particular facts.

This is because Spirit is as much the Irrational as it is the Rational. Academicians need to show some humility in the face of what will always be Irrational. They only see half the picture.

Each human being contains the Essence within himself or herself, but the knowledge remains latent in most people.

The way to become a REALIZED person does not so much lie in doing good things, which of course we all should do, but in coming to some kind of understanding with the Dark, with the Shadow.

Cold facts never can sprout into flowers of wisdom.

Living knowledge goes beyond words and lifeless facts and takes you into a wordless direct knowing of the Ultimate Reality.

Gnostic manuscripts lead people to an understanding of themselves as sons and daughters of God, sharing God's Divinity.

God is the Radiance of Your Existence, the Living Presence of Life that is Fully Awake Within Itself, the Perfect, That Which is Beyond Any Intellectual Understanding.

Therefore, do not attempt to collect a lot of facts, in order to impress others or to obtain one degree after another. The Archons disguise facts so that they appear to be wisdom. What you need in order to strengthen yourself against all forms of Archontic attack, is living knowledge.

How can you tell if a Chinese poem is a good poem if you do not read the kind of Chinese in which it is written? Certain realms of experience charge an entrance fee. To evaluate certain experiences a person must have encountered that realm of experience in some fashion. He or she must have access to that realm.

Ultimately, no one can extract from things, books included, more than he already knows. What one has no access to through experience one has no ear for.

surest remedy for the male disease of self-contempt is the love of a sensible woman.

To deal with reality you must first recognize it as such.

We think we believe what we know, but we only truly believe what we feel.

Knowledge of the sort you need does not begin with information, it begins with experience and perception. But there is a dark and twisty road from experience and perception to correct action.

Against logic there is no armor like ignorance.

You can always tell a real friend; when you've made a fool of yourself, he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job.

The man who says he is willing to meet you halfway is usually a poor judge of distance.