Quotes About Understanding

Personal experience, therefore, is everything in Zen. No ideas are intelligible to those who have no backing of experience.

Evil spawns evil. The first experience of torture gives an understanding of the pleasure in tormenting others.

The spectacles of experience; through them you will see more clearly a second time.

I've learned that ayahuasca works in levels, a little like peeling an onion. It is complex and something you really have to experience to understand.

Words are capable of making experience more vivid, and also of organizing it. They can scare us, and they can comfort us.

It's not that people don't like classical music. It's that they don't have the chance to understand and to experience it.

To doubt the experience is to discourage it. Let it be developed, see what is in it.

I want people to understand there is a such a thing as creating a harmonious experience between the dogs and the humans.

To care of another individual means to know and to experience the other as fully as possible.

Every theory is a self-fulfilling prophecy that orders experience into the framework it provides.

To experience relationships of substance and depth requires approaching and entering into relationships with consciousness and concern for the other.

The character and history of each child may be a new and poetic experience to the parent, if he will let it.

Theories are always very thin and insubstantial, experience only is tangible.

You may learn to imitate a birdcall, but do you experience what the nightingale feels for the rose?

We do not learn by experience, but by our capacity for experience.

I think what's important is to give space to the range of human experience.

The experience has to be formulated in order to be communicated.

Every experience is a paradox in that it means to be absolute, and yet is relative; in that it somehow always goes beyond itself and yet never escapes itself.

To hear that your neighbor was worse off than yourself was not an altogether unpleasant experience.

A dream that is not understood remains a mere occurrence; understood it becomes a living experience.

It's my experience that people are a lot more sympathetic if they can see you hurting.

The wiser you get, the more experience you have, and the more you see people for who they are as human beings, as opposed to figures you have to fight against.

Mindfulness is the aware, balanced acceptance of present experience. It isn't more complicated than that.

We cannot afford to forget any experience, not even the most painful.