Quotes About Understanding

To live in the world without becoming aware of the meaning of the world is like wandering about in a great library without touching the books. The Secret Teachings of All Ages

This is one of those things that you can never explain to anyone; that's what I want to explain - one of those free-association moments with connections that dissolve when you start to try to put them into words.

Maybe love, like suffering, is relative.

Enlightenment is not an attainment, it is a realization. And when you wake up, everything changes and nothing changes.

you have to 'lose your mind' before you can come to your senses.

My ignorance is based on this understanding. Your understanding is based on ignorance. This is why I am a humorous fool, and you are a serious jackass.

Understanding is the one-dimensional comprehension of the intellect. It leads to knowledge. Realization is three-dimensional — a simultaneous comprehension of head, heart, and instinct. It comes only from direct experience.

You've become bored to things because they exist only as names to you. The dry concepts of mind obscure your direct perception.

To really help people, you first need to understand them—but first understand yourself, prepare yourself; develop the clarity, the courage, and the sensitivity to exert the right leverage, in the right place, at the right time. Then your actions will have power. History," he added, "holds many examples of individuals and nations who acted without the wisdom to foresee the consequences

People from all walks of life share an innate drive for meaning, direction, and purpose. This drive to understand our life purpose seems as important to our psychological growth as eating is to our biological survival.

Ki ruházta rád a felelÅ'sséget? Ki adott bölcsességet, hogy tudd, kinek kell élnie, és kinek kell meghalnia, és milyen úton-módon? Ki vagy te, hogy tudd, mi jár Isten fejében?

The point of the preceding list of factors that generate emotions is that you cannot, and need not, analyze or understand all the factors that produce your emotional peaks or valleys. It's enough to know that the interaction of mind and circumstance contributes to your emotional lows and highs.

If a blind man realizes that he can see, has the world changed?

Yet acting without understanding may create even more problems. Sometimes you need to simply relax into life, and to trust.

It's different," I said. "No," she replied. "You are.

sensitivity

Die Welt ist ein Rätsel. Ist doch egal, ob wir sie verstehen.

Knowledge is not the same as wisdom. Wisdom is doing it.

Everything that needs to be said has already been said. But since no one was listening, everything must be said again. — ANDRÉ GIDE

You are the expert on your life and destiny. When you are paying attention, no one knows you better than you can know yourself.

I think I understand, Socrates." "Don't you mean you understand you think?" he smiled. I

Part One, "Naming the Problem," will help you see the full extent of parental control by describing in detail eight styles of controlling parents. You'll be able to determine which of these types—or combination of types—fits one or both of your parents. When you know your parents' styles, you can better recognize the continuing effects of their early control on you.

Let that be a lesson to you," Sledge added. "If you know a thing is so, it's so. If you know it's not, it's not.

Wisdom is not a knowledge. Wisdom is all the knowledge one has, speaking in its own way, telling the mind things that are beyond knowing.