Quotes About Understanding

It is often forgotten that He who has surrounded us with this ever-evolving mystery of creation has also implanted in us the desire to question and understand.

Wisdom is not assimilated with the eyes, but with the atoms

He who has surrounded us with this ever-evolving mystery of creation has also implanted in us the desire to question and understand.

It is not the physicist but the Self-realized [spiritual] master who comprehends the true nature of matter.

The ignorant man sees only the unsurmountable wall of death, hiding, seemingly forever, his cherished friends. But the man of unattachment, he who loves others as expressions of the Lord, understands that at death the dear ones have only returned for a breathing-space of joy in Him. The

I realised anew that God wants His children to love everything as a part of Him and not to feel delusively that death ends all. The ignorant man sees only the unsurmountable wall of death, hiding, seemingly forever, his cherished friends. But the man of unattachment, he who loves others as expressions of the Lord, understands that at death the dear ones have only returned for a breathing-space of joy in Him.

Wisdom is the greatest cleanser.

The Chinese mystic Lao-tzu rightly taught: "He who knows, tells it not; he who tells, knows it not.

As can often be observed, the true stature of a great work may not at first be recognized by those of a more conventional cast of mind.

Peace (shanti) is a divine quality. A true yogi, one united to the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, is like a lovely rose, spreading around him the fragrance of tranquility and harmony.

your experiences of the Divine in terms of love and devotion shall be translated into his terms of fathomless wisdom.

Do not confuse understanding with a larger vocabulary," he remarked. "Sacred writings are beneficial in stimulating desire for inward realization, if one stanza at a time is slowly assimilated. Otherwise, continual intellectual study may result in vanity, false satisfaction, and undigested knowledge.

Realized knowledge alone destroys ignorance. . . . Knowledge cannot spring up by any other means than inquiry.

True sophistication is the ability to fit in anywhere, because you have a broad understanding of and respect for all kinds of people.

Before I can tell my life what I want to do with it, I must listen to my life telling me who I am.

Violence is what happens when we don't know what else to do with our suffering.

Why does a literary scholar study the world of fiction? To show us that the facts can never be understood except in communion with the imagination.

The more you know about another person's story, the less possible it is to see that person as your enemy.

Humility is the only lens though which great things can be seen--and once we have seen them, humility is the only posture possible.

Humans never invented anything that goes as deep as scientific investigation into understanding why the world is the way it is, nor have we found any other way of seeking knowledge that gets it so consistently right. Doing science is also difficult and frustrating, and in many ways goes against the grain of our spontaneous ways of thinking.

Fathers remain opaque to their sons, he thought, largely because the sons find it so hard to believe that there's anything in the father worth seeing. Until he's dead, and it's too late. Mercifully, doctors are also opaque to their patients.

I will never forget that she cried for me when I was not able to cry for myself.

The past is a palimpsest. Early memories are always obscured by accumulations of later knowledge.

One began by finding mental illness mystifying, and ended by being still more mystified by health.