Quotes About Understanding

A — Aware. Am I in Judger?

C — Curiosity. What's happening here? What are the facts?

Authentic listening is not easy. We hear the words, but rarely do we really slow down to listen and to squint with our ears, to hear the emotions, fears, and underlying concerns. Kevin Cashman

It seems like people go into Judger whenever there's any kind of conflict,

Poems] train and exercise the imagination. Trained imaginations are what we need most at a time like this. That is what will enable us to reach across cultures and understand each other, to think of new models and modes of organization that might work better, and to wage peace, because the love of beauty is deeply related to the love of peace.

I say I'm Metis like it's an apology and he says, 'mmh,' like he forgives me like he's got a big heart and mine's pumping diluted blood

Men's need to dominate women may be based in their own sense of marginality or emptiness we do not know its root, and men are making no effort to discover it.

Fear is a question. What are you afraid of and why? Our fears are a treasure house of self-knowledge if we explore them.

Loneliness is not a longing for company, it is a longing for kind. And kind means people who can see you who you are, and that means they have enough intelligence and sensitivity and patience to do that.

I don't know if you have the words I need. I know you didn't need the ones I had.

When you're taught to love everyone, to love your enemies, then what value does that place on love?

I fear I am beyond your comprehension. - Gandalf the White

Fear is often bred of an imagination that couldn't let something be what it actually was.

Fear is peace and Peace is fear

Words speak to the the mind through the ears and actions speak to the mind through the eye

What you seem to forget is that I'm not one of the embodiments of evil. I'm one of the embodiments of fear. That means I know what makes evil quake in the light of the sun.

No matter how crazy or hard a man acts sometimes he has a soft side.

The realization that my parents, too, felt pain and fear frightened me more than any strangers could.

I know very little about darkness, Mr Bowden, except that we cannot stop its coming.

The word 'Terror' is so generally and universally used in connection with everyday trivial matters that it is apt to fail to convey, when intended to do so, its real meaning.

It's harder to be afraid of something you understand

...when you take fright and add to it ignorance, you get hatred. That's a very unattractive equation.

It is a responsibility for those that see and have understanding, and choose to not be bridled by fear, to step forward and lead the way.

As long as we acknowledge them, there's nothing to fear.