Quotes About Understanding

You can't understand where someone's going unless you understand where they've been.

One's enemy is often the best teacher of tolerance.

Wisdom is something that seeks itself. The wiser you become the more you'd like to know.

The world won't necessarily change but your understanding of it will, and therefore the world will change. Your attention will no longer be confined to the physical body and the physical world.

Words are deceptive. You think you understand something because it's explained to you and now you are under no obligation to do anything because you understand it.

In the study of consciousness you cannot explain anything verbally. You can only allude to, point in a general direction of.

As a sensitive person around other people, you feel their desires, you feel their angers, and you feel their frustrations. You begin to believe that these desires, angers, and frustrations are yours.

I understand your higher and lower tendencies. There is something beyond all of this nonsense. There is a wonderful glitter that you can follow in life.

Get real. Life is heavy. It's difficult. It's complex...even for the wise.

It's not logical, self-realization. If it was, everybody would be self-realized because everybody is logical.

If you are trying to aid people in the process of self-discovery, what you have to do is confound them with so many concepts that are contradictory, yet each make complete sense in its own right.

To have suffered much is like knowing many languages. Thou hast learned to understand all.

We teach what we need to learn.

Ignorance is not an extension of time

Let us not judge others, because we simply don't know that had we lived their life, we might be exactly the same.

We perceive and are affected by changes too subtle to be described.

The key to a long and healthy marriage is that, honestly, there's nothing worth fighting about.

To meet at all, one must open ones eyes to another; and there is no true conversation no matter how many words are spoken, unless the eye, unveiled and listening, opens itself to the other.

Only the silent hear and those who do not remain silent do not hear.

I've come to learn that the best time to debate family members is when they have good in their mouths.

Yet has not Man wept at the sounds? And are not his tears eloquent understanding?

Knowledge is real knowledge only when it is acquired by the efforts of your intellect, not by memory

The hardest heart and the grossest ignorance must disappear before the rising sun of suffering without anger and without malice.

I wish to change there minds, not kill them for weaknesses we all poses.