Quotes About Understanding

I will try to work for greater reconciliation, cooperation and peace in North East Asia based on correct perception of history.

Part of what we are is whom we've loved.

I know why men lose sight of the face of God: because it is so close.

Lovers have a language that can be lost--how to speak, how to touch, when to try.

She never thought she was that kind of girl; now she knew there wasn't any other.

Here, sit down, and let me answer your question. God wants to have a relationship with you through His Son. In business, Richard, I know you tell us here in the firm to develop relationships with influential people and with clients. How do we do that?' 'Well,' Richard answered, 'we spend time with them, get to know everything we can about them, talk to them, listen to them, try to figure out what's important to them . . . All of that builds the relationship

Good teachers possess a capacity for connectedness. They are able to weave a complex web of connections among themselves, their subjects, and their students so that students can learn to weave a world for themselves.

The civility we need will not come from watching our tongues. It will come from valuing our differences.

Science requires an engagement with the world, a live encounter between the knower and the known.

Mentoring is a mutuality that requires more than meeting the right teacher: the teacher must meet the right student.

The underground is a dangerous but potentially life-giving place to which depression takes us; a place where we come to understand that the self is not set apart or special or superior but is a common mix of good and evil, darkness and light; a place where we can finally embrace the humanity we share with others. That is the best image I can offer not only of the underground but also of the field of forces surrounding the experience of God.

Violence is what we get when we do not know what else to do with our suffering.

does it mean to listen to a voice before it is

the ancient human question "Who am l?" leads inevitably to the equally important question "Whose am l?"-for there is no selfhood outside of relationship.

Teaching holds a mirror to the soul. If I am willing to look in that mirror and not run from what I see I have a chance to gain self knowledge and knowing myself is as crucial to good teaching as knowing my students and my subject. In fact, knowing my students and my subject depends heavily on self knowledge.

Vocation does not come from willfulness. It comes from listening. I must listen to my life and try to understand what it is truly about—quite apart from what I would like it to be about—or my life will never represent anything real in the world, no matter how earnest my intentions.

First, the subjects we teach are as large and complex as life so our knowledge of them is always flawed and partial. No matter how we devote ourselves to reading and research, teaching requires a command of content that always eludes our grasp. Second, the students we teach are larger than life and even more complex. To see them clearly and see them whole and respond to them wisely in the moment requires a fusion of Freud and Solomon that few of us achieve.

ontology, epistemology, pedagogy, and ethics

Let reason alone decide

Thou canst not recognize not-being (for this is impossible), nor couldst thou speak of it, for thought and being are the same thing.

Meet it is that thou shouldst learn all things, as well the unshaken heart of persuasive truth, as the opinions of mortals in which is no true belief at all.

Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a FISH by its ability to CLIMB a tree, it will live its whole life thinking it IS stupid

Some people can read War and Peace and come away thinking it's a simple adventure story. Others can read the ingredients on a chewing gum wrapper and unlock the secrets of the universe. -Super man

Por qué la música es capaz de ir al fondo del dolor? Porque es allí donde ella mora.