Quotes About Understanding

To know a man's library is, in some measure, to know a man's mind.

The most effective way to achieve right relations with any living thing is to look for the best in it, and then help that best into the fullest expression.

Take time as it comes, the wind as it blows, woman as she is.

When you begin your transcendental training, focusing your best efforts, without attachment to outcomes, you will understand the peaceful warrior's way.

Openness to all attitudes no matter how extreme or unrealistic they may seem.

It's an attitude that has to do with curiosity, with wanting to know about things, wanting to be able to influence things, and wanting to be able to influence them in a way that's worthwhile

We should ever conduct ourselves towards our enemy as if he were one day to be our friend.

More essential than working on attitudes and behaviors is examining the paradigms out of which those attitudes and behaviors flow.

Anything too far out of tune with our attitude is lost, either in the ears themselves or somewhere beyond, but it is lost.

Every obnoxious act is a cry for help.

The rare moment is not the moment when there is something worth looking at, but the moment when we are capable of seeing.

The quickest method for understanding and living your purpose, is to ask yourself if you're thinking in loving ways.

Forgive everyone everything.

Only the individual who has come to terms with his self can have a dispassionate attitude toward the world.

To notice people's deceptions yet not reveal it in words, to bear people's insults without showing any change of attitude-there is endless meaning in this, and also endless function.

Racial understanding is not something we find, but something that we must create. Through education, we seek to change attitudes.

It is better to know nothing than to know what ain't so.

Once you discover what your attitude is, or isn't, you'll have a starting point and an understanding of how to move forward.

The modern mind always tends to reduce the greater to the lesser rather than seeing the lesser as reflecting the greater.

Many traditional religions foster attitudes that ought to have disappeared as biological understanding accumulated over the last century.

Those who would make us feel must feel themselves.

Let my Peace which passes all understanding infill and enfold you, for when you are at Peace within, you reflect Peace without, and all those souls you meet will feel that Peace.

Tolerance should really be only a temporary attitude; it must lead to recognition. To tolerate means to offend.

Criticism is no threat to your self-esteem or identity, but rather informs you.