Quotes About Understanding

Nose, eyes, ears

Discipline isn't about showing a dog who's boss; it's about taking responsibility for a living creature you have brought into your world.

Dogs do know how comfortable you are with yourself, how happy you are, how fearful you are, and what is missing inside of you.

It becomes very obvious, by reading a dog, how stable or unstable his human companion is. Our dogs are our mirrors.

Remember, dogs sense when we are happy, and especially when we are happy with them.

The "No Touch, No Talk, No Eye Contact" approach gives dogs a chance to smell you and get to know you first before they allow you to enter their personal space. When using the  "No Touch, No Talk, No Eye Contact" approach, first remember to keep your energy calm and assertive.

Misfortunes cannot suffice to make a fool into an intelligent man

Tutto il problema della vita è dunque questo: come rompere la propria solitudine, come comunicare con altri.

If all this were true, how easy it would be to understand people.

Esistono amori che non siano egoismo, che non vogliano ridurre l'uomo o la donna al proprio comodo?

Vermek bir tutku, neredeyse bir kusurdur. Kendisine bir ?eyler verebilece?imiz bir kimsemiz olmas? gerekir.

Aveva già allora quegli occhi forati, da gatto, e quando aveva detto una cosa finiva: 'Se sbaglio, correggimi'. Fu così che cominciai a capire che non si parla solamente per parlare, per dire 'ho fatto questo' 'ho fatto quello' 'ho mangiato e bevuto', ma si parla per farsi un'idea, per capire come va questo mondo. Non ci avevo mai pensato prima.

Si odiano gli altri, perché si odia se stessi.

Ma anche a lui che non si è mosso è toccato qualcosa, un destino – quella sua idea che le cose bisogna capirle, aggiustarle, che il mondo è mal fatto e che a tutti interessa cambiarlo.

But, if we regard knowledge as an antique, as "ancient wisdom" to be collected, then we are on the wrong path.

However, maitri is not just being kind and nice. It is the understanding that one has to become one with the situation. That does not particularly mean that one becomes entirely without personality and has to accept whatever the other person suggests. Rather, you have to overcome the barrier that you have formed between yourself and others. If you remove this barrier and open yourself, then automatically real understanding and clarity will develop in your mind.

The idea is that when the teaching begins to happen, it is an experience—but experience needs language, and at the same time, language needs experience.

So vipashyana experience and practice is absolutely necessary for a person who follows the Buddhist path and really wants to understand the dharma.

such understanding might be extremely boring. Also, such understanding might include seeing some things you don't want to see.

You should absolutely and completely stop all six of those misinterpretations.

A great deal of the chaos in the world occurs because people don't appreciate themselves.

There is a saying in the Tibetan scriptures: "Knowledge must be burned, hammered, and beaten like pure gold. Then one can wear it as an ornament." So when you receive spiritual instruction from the hands of another, you do not take it uncritically, but you burn it, you hammer it, you beat it, until the bright, dignified color of gold appears. Then you craft it into an ornament, whatever design you like, and you put it on.

Your significant other, or 'sother'.

I've never really apologised to her for that specifically, mostly because I didn't know how to apologise for my brain not working. I can't see girls being cool with... "Hey, sorry about my brain not working right; that things is nuts sometimes. I know I might have confused you, but my brain confused me too. Anyhoo...just letting you know that was why! Hugs!" I mean, I'd be willing to try it once...but just for the story, really.