Quotes About Understanding

We are all culturally embedded creatures—we can never untangle ourselves from our here and now. We perceive God, think about God, and talk about God in ways that make sense to us by virtue of when and where we live.

The point is that Proverbs 26:4–5 doesn't tell me what to do. It wasn't designed to. It models something better: the permission to think it through, figure it out, and learn from experience for next time. In fact, more than just giving us permission, the contradiction sets up our expectation that we will have to think it through.

Adjusting our understanding of God isn't a sign of weak faith, nor is it an attack on faith—it is faith.

We can't get our minds around God. I don't think the Christian faith is fundamentally rational, by which I mean it cannot be captured fully by our rational faculties—and in fact, more often than not, confounds them. A God who can be comfortably captured in our minds, with little else for us to find out apart from an occasional adjustment, is no God at all. Expecting faith in God to be rational is often more the problem than the solution.

We know nothing about motivation. All we can do is write books about it.

The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said.

The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said.

Any species possessing this kind of knowledge base is best left unannoyed.

True life is the understanding and support of other people, of selflessness, of charity, of kindness.

I don't understand why you need verbal trickery to ensnare a temporary mate," Tochee said. "Are you not attracted to each other by what you are?

purpose; parents being tolerant or exasperated

It remained a source of mild shame that he'd never quite realized just how knowledgeable his wife was in her field.

Acceptance of truth is fundamental to our ethos. To determine truth we must first listen to all opinion.

I believe I understand, friend Orion," Tochee said. "You are attracted to the young female of your species. Is she one totally fuckable babe?

Our conclusion is that you are simply studying us. We would now like to know why. As sentient entities we have that right.

Sometimes kindness is wiser than truth

The term "reflective function" (RF) refers to the operationalization of the psychological processes underlying the capacity to mentalize—

interpret their own and others' behavior by attributing mental states

Mentalization—a concept that is familiar in developmental circles—is the process by which we realize that having a mind mediates our experience of the

WHEN I WAS 25 I THOUGHT MY DAD WAS A FOOL NOW THAT IM 30 ITS AMAZING HOW SMART HE HAS GOTTON OVER THE LAST FIVE YEARS.MY SECOND FAVORITE IS A MAN PREACHING TO ANOTHER ABOUT HOW HE BELIEVES THAT FAMILY COMES FIRST AND HOW HIS FRIEND SHOULD REMEMBER WHAT HIS PARENTS DID FOR HIM BEFORE HE DISRESPECTS THEM. WELL LETS JUST SAY I UNDERSTAND.

issues of policy as well. They hit it off

We must be very careful that we do not label persons with dementia by their Behaviours. Labels can often reflect attitudes and can shape how we respond to people. It is not unusual to hear a resident labeled as a "wanderer" or a "hitter". Labels can make people assume the Behaviour reflects the person and fail to recognise that the person is experiencing pain, fear or some other emotional or physical problem that needs to be addressed. Labeling

parted from Freud, aware how much Freud disliked emotional displays, he spoke lightly about travel plans. Freud, Sachs records, understood

My poetry is who I am down to the core, even though I do not write autobiographical verse. I have built a syntax and a language to understand myself in the world."—Peter Gizzi