Quotes About Understanding

In fact, anyone who stands on the edge of the unknown, fully in the present without reference point, experiences groundlessness. That's when our understanding goes deeper, when we find that the present moment is a pretty vulnerable place and that this can be completely unnerving and completely tender at the same time.

heavy emotion as a way to develop true compassion for ourselves and everyone else.

the essence of compassionate speech or compassionate action is to be there for people, without pulling back in horror or fear or anger.

Booker T. Washington was right when he said, "Let no man pull you so low as to make you hate him.

We can use meditation to reinforce our false beliefs: it will protect us from discomfort; it will fix us; it will fulfill our hopes and remove our fears. This happens because we don't properly understand why we are practicing.

It is unconditional compassion for ourselves that leads naturally to unconditional compassion for others.

Only with equanimity can we see that everything that comes into our circle has come to teach us what we need to know.

Only when we know our own darkness well can we be present with the darkness of others.

If we find ourselves unworkable and give up on ourselves, then we'll find others unworkable and give up on them.

I feel anger and I feel understanding. It's a difficult position to be in.

Men often make up in wrath what they want in reason.

Everybody can do something toward creating in his own environment kindly feelings rather than anger, reasonableness rather than hysteria, happiness rather than misery.

I just want to touch people's ears. I want to touch people's lives. I want to give them something they can release to towards their anger.

Anger is one of the most intimate of emotions and to expose it to strangers is one of the most stupid and sickening things to do. Never get angry with strangers because they are strangers.

I do feel like at the end of anger I have to have something that grounds it.

I don't respect your statement because of the anger that came with it

To behave rightly, we ourselves should never lay a hand on our servants as long as our anger lasts. Things will seem different to us when we have quieted and cooled down.

A kiss on the nose does much toward turning aside anger.

Affection is important because it counters anger, hatred and suspicion that can prevent our minds from functioning clearly.

On his brow a leaf of oaken, Cangeling child shall be his fate. Understanding words strange spoken, Chased by anger, fear, and hate.

Many of us have read about and talked about forgiveness, and we understand intellectually why it might benefit us to let go of anger toward others. But we hold on anyway.

A kinsman in trouble had to be saved, not blamed; anger against a brother was felt in the flesh, not in the bone.

Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.

When introverts are in conflict with each other...it may require a map in order to follow all the silences, nonverbal cues and passive-aggressive behaviors!