Quotes About Understanding

Intuition guides us and the wise person listens.

She was never neutral, but she could be tolerant, although it was hard work - never a tolerance of indifference.

I don't want to be married just to be married. I can't think of anything lonelier than spending the rest of my life with someone I can't talk to, or worse, someone I can't be silent with.

Every Body has so good an Opinion of their own Understanding as to think their own way the best.

I would no more quarrel with a man because of his religion than I would because of his art.

Audible prayer can never do the works of spiritual understanding, which regenerates; but silent prayer, watchfulness, and devout obedience enable us to follow Jesus example. Long prayers, superstition, and creeds clip the strong pinions of love, and clothe religion in human forms. Whatever materializes worship hinders man's spiritual growth and keeps him from demonstrating his power over error.

Error is a supposition that pleasure and pain, that intelligence, substance, life, are existent in matter. Error is neither Mind nor one of Mind's faculties. Error is the contradiction of Truth. Error is a belief without understanding. Error is unreal because untrue. It is that which stemma to be and is not. If error were true, its truth would be error, and we should have a self-evident absurdity --namely, erroneous truth. Thus we should continue to lose the standard of Truth.

Give up the belief that mind is, even temporarily, compressed within the skull, and you will quickly become more manly or womanly. You will understand yourself and your Maker better than before.

Reject hatred without hating.

Resurrection. Spiritualization of thought; a new and higher idea of immortality, or spiritual existence; material belief yielding to spiritual understanding. (SH 593:9)

The worst thing about loneliness is that it brings one face to face with oneself.

Denn bei historischer Forschung geht es doch gerade darum, Fremdartigkeit zu erhalten.

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Dogma is something you believe intellectually or on faith. Wisdom is something you know through Direct Experience!

The Nazis understand everything except humour.

I could smack her, punch her in the face, but then I see what she can't hide from me. I've seen it before-the desperation, the agony, the need to find a reason to go on, and the inability to find it.

a white person who wants to know about our religion but won't listen. There

Dear child, there are few problems in life which kindness and common sense cannot make simple and manageable.

Even though I know Christopher can be hard and even cruel, it doesn't matter. I can only remember the things that made him like that. I think I should always go on loving him whatever I found out about him. I think I shall love him even when I'm dead. Do you think that is silly?" "No. It's the only sort of love that's worth having.

Kids absorbed more than most parents realized.

It was true that one could be more alone with someone than by oneself.

A mother knows her children's weaknesses, even if she sometimes refuses to acknowledge them.

But a mother sees her child's shortcomings, even if she doesn't admit to them very often.

But God doesn't make bad things happen or necessarily stop them from happening. What He does do is give us strength to understand and persevere, learn from and through the tragedy.