Quotes About Understanding

God knows our history. No matter how insightful a therapist may be or wise a friend is, only God can ultimately know the intricacies of our lives and experiences. His eyes never leave us, and He knows us better than we know ourselves.

A book is not complete until it's read

It is so difficult - at least, I find it difficult - to understand people who speak the truth.

nothing which we are to perceive in this world equals the power of your intense fragility:whose texture compels me with the colour of its countries, rendering death and forever with each breathing (i do not know what it is about you that closes and opens;only something in me understands the voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses) nobody,not even the rain, has such small hands -excerpt of #35 from 100 Selected Poems

Laughing is just another way of showing people your wise

for whenever men are right they are not young

Only something in me understands the voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses. Nobody, not even the rain has such small hands.

i do not know what it is about you that closes and opens; only something in me understands the voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses) nobody, not even the rain, has such small hands.

since feeling is first who pays any attention to the syntax of things will never wholly kiss you

let's go said he not too far said she what's too far said he where you are said she

We view the past, and achieve our understanding of the past, only through the eyes of the present

Man's capacity to rise above his social and historical situation seems to be conditioned by the sensitivity with which he recognizes the extent of his involvement in it.

I take the position that true faith is not a supersessional knowledge. It cannot discard the intellect.

The experience of experience is untransmittable.

19. I wrote in my notebook that even if all the possible scientific questions are answered, our problem is still not touched at all.

the old Master becoming at some times demonic in his teaching, a destroyer of ego, of humble ordinary lines of thought, an army of right practice, right understanding overwhelming the frail redoubts and trenches of Warren's Western mind.

I'm not sure that love and like aren't like cats and dogs: One can't grow up to be the other, but they can be taught to live under the same roof.

Inside me there was a lot of best friendship that no one but Ginger was using.

Friendship depends on interlocking time, place, and state of mind.

How do I know what I think until I see what I say?

Let yourself go. Pull out from the depths those thoughts that you do not understand, and spread them out in the sunlight and know the meaning of them.

Only connect!

All scripture was written for us, and for our learning ; but they are not all addressed to us, or written concerning us.

God has spoken, at sundry times as well as in. diverse manners And if we are to understand what He has spoken we must learn to distinguish, not only the various peoples whom He has spoken, but the sundry times at which He has spoken to them, and also the. diverse manners.