Quotes About Understanding

The truly great books are the few books that are over everybody's head all of the time.

Good art provides people with a vocabulary about things they can't articulate.

Reprimand not a child immediately on the offence. Wait till the irritation has been replaced by serenity.

The physician should not treat the disease but the patient who is suffering from it

If a person studies too much and exhausts his reflective powers, he will be confused, and will not be able to apprehend even that which had been within the power of his apprehension. For the powers of the body are all alike in this respect.

Your purpose...should always be to know...the whole that was intended to be known.

Accept the truth from whatever source it comes.

If you want to make peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.

If you judge people you have no time to love them.

Each one of them is Jesus in disguise.

Before you speak, it is necessary for you to listen, for God speaks in the silence of the heart.

People are unreasonable, illogical, and self-centered. Love them anyway.

it doesn't matter who it is, and that will help you to grow up in greater love for each other.

The kind of ominous silence that comes while somebody quietly adjusts his view of who you are.

The foolish man thinks cats can only have cat food. The wise man knows they are allowed a little salami.

There are two theories to arguing with a woman. One is by responding to her, the other is to keep quiet. They all dont work.

This wisdom is not formulaic and cannot be captured in words, for it has gone beyond words to a place where direct realization rather than conceptual verbalization is the essential mode of being.

Strive to see with the inner eye, the heart. It sees the reality not subject to emotional or personal error; it sees the essence. Intuition then is the most important quality to develop.

Suffering in search of truth gives true meaning to the truth.

Love becomes meaningless when you find its meaning.

One hour of contemplation surpasses sixty years of worship.

Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It's not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything.

If we continue to think and live as if we belong only to different cultures and different religions, with separate missions and goals, we will always be in self-defeating competition with each other. Once we realize we are all members of humanity, we will want to compete in the spirit of love.

Christians are my brothers, Hindus are my brothers, all of them are my brothers. We just think different and believe different.