Quotes About Understanding

Distance is a great promoter of harmony: a fact that women who find themselves in situations similar to mine should keep in mind.)

Most of all we learned to feel without words the sorrows of our sisters, and without words to console them. In this way our lives were not so different from those of the girls we had left behind in our home villages

Vaishnava jana to tene kahiyeje pi?a paraay? jaa?e re. Only those who feel the pain of others may be called truly good. Sarojini sees her listening and says, "A doctor is like that, no?

Early in my life, I learned to eavesdrop. I was driven to this ignoble practice because people seldom told me anything worth knowing.

She would learn over the next years that love can feel a lot of different ways, and sometimes it can hurt a lot more.

How little we know our own reputations, I thought with a bitter smile.

I wanted to warn my husbands that one couldn't depend on a man who plucked frailty and desire so easily out of his heart. How could he have compassion for the faults of others, or understand their need?

This is what Kaikeyi failed to see: it's not enough to merely love someone. Even if we love them with our entire being, even if we're willing to commit the most heinous sin for their well-being. We must understand and respect the values that drive them. We must want what they want, not what we want for them.

But some things can't be told that way, I know that now. They can only be approached stealthily, from behind, like wild birds. And even then they catch your scent and take flight before you throw your net of words over them.

This is why Jesus taught in parables to the masses, and gave the inner or esoteric teachings and practices to his disciples only (Luke 8:10). Jesus also instructed the disciples not to reveal inner or esoteric teachings and practices to the unprepared when he told them not to cast their pearls before swine (Matthew 7:6).

Intuition is knowing through direct inner perception. This wisdom or knowingness must be translated or stepped down into concepts, principles, and words. This manifests as the ajna chakra or understanding. Knowing something through intuition requires only seconds or minutes. But translating intuition into understanding, manifesting as concepts, principles, and words may take weeks, months or years.

before Isaac Newton, billions of people had seen apples or objects fall to the ground. But it was Isaac Newton who formulated the Law of Gravity. In ancient India, hundreds of millions or billions of grandmothers healed their grandchildren with branches or brooms, but they did not understand the principle behind what they were doing. It was necessary for MCKS to explain and put emphasis on the very important concept of diseased energy.

A disciple must learn to be patient, to understand, to be tolerant, to be compassionate, to internally forgive and to bless. Although the disciple has internally forgiven the offending person(s), it is still necessary, in some instances, to take actions that may be, to a certain extent severe, in order for the person to learn his lesson and not commit the same serious mistake again. It is also necessary to protect possible future victims.

Using intuitive intelligence alone is not enough. The concept or ideas that have been internally gathered by intuitive intelligence must still be analyzed, scrutinized and validated by using mental intelligence and actual experimentation.

Becoming "awake" involves seeing our confusion more clearly.

One cannot love with the eyes alone.

What the eyes do not see can never pain the heart.

Doit chascuns panser et antandre A bien dire et a bien aprandre ; Qu'il est louable de s'appliquer à bien dire et à bien enseigner.

Here's the thing: You rescue us every day in small, quiet ways, so why not in this way? Let us into your mystery, tell us how you would like to be loved, show us how to see you, really see you.

If you want to know about Africa, read our literature -- and not just "Things Fall Apart," because that would be like saying, "I've read 'Gone with the Wind' and so I know everything about America."

I shall not weep for any of them, nor regret their fate, nor shake one feather in sympathy.

At some point you do not need to talk to have a conversation. The conversation exists whether you have it or not. It continues silently in a parallel dimension of the marriage. They both pause to let it run its course toward another stalemate.

when the subject matter is potentially a hot button, it never hurts to be prepared, anticipating the kinds of thoughts and feelings that your partner might experience.

With age comes acumen. With experience comes insight.