Quotes About Understanding

Everything, a bird, a tree, even a simple stone, and certainly a human being, is ultimately unknowable. This is because it has unfathomable depth. All we can perceive, experience, think about, is the surface layer of reality, less than the tip of an iceberg.

Most human relationships consist mainly of minds interacting with each other, not of human beings communicating, being in communion.

Cómo puedes estar resentido con alguien que está enfermo? La única respuesta apropiada es la compasión.

First you stop judging yourself; then you stop judging your partner. The greatest catalyst for change in a relationship is complete acceptance of your partner as he or she is, without needing to judge or change them in any way. That immediately takes you beyond ego. All mind games and all addictive clinging are then over.

No juzgue o condene lo que oye, porque hacerlo significaría que la misma voz ha vuelto a entrar por la puerta trasera.

LEARN TO GIVE EXPRESSION to what you feel without blaming. Learn to listen to your partner in an open, nondefensive way.

Si no puedes aceptar lo que es, eso implica que nunca puedes aceptar a las personas como son.

Knowing the oneness of yourself and the other is true love, true care, true compassion.

Mi mente no puede conocerlo a usted, sólo etiquetas, juicios, hechos y opiniones sobre usted. Sólo el Ser conoce directamente.

APRENDE A EXPRESAR lo que sientes sin culpar. Aprende a escuchar a tu pareja de manera abierta, sin ponerte a la defensiva.

St. Paul expressed this universal principle beautifully: "Everything is shown up by being exposed to the light, and whatever is exposed to the light itself becomes light.

The greatest catalyst for change in a relationship is complete acceptance of your partner as he or she is, without needing to judge or change them in any way.

Judgment is either to confuse someone's unconscious behavior with who they are or to project your own unconsciousness onto another person and mistake that for who they are.

If you delve into the past, it will become a bottomless pit: There is always more. You may think that you need more time to understand the past or become free of it, in other words, that the future will eventually free you of the past. This is a delusion. Only the present can free you of the past. More time cannot free you of time. Access the power of Now. That is the key.

Words, no matter whether they are vocalized and made into sounds or remain unspoken as thoughts, can cast an almost hypnotic spell upon you. You easily lose yourself in them, become hypnotized into implicitly believing that when you have attached a word to something, you know what it is. The fact is: You don't know what it is.

The quicker you are in attaching verbal or mental labels to things, people, or situations, the more shallow and lifeless your reality becomes

Forgiveness is to offer no resistance to life.

Real love doesn't make you suffer. How could it?

The problems of the mind cannot be solved on the level of the mind.

Anything that you resent and strongly react to in another is also in you. But it is no more than a form of ego, and as such, it is completely impersonal. It has nothing to do with who that person is, nor has it anything to do with who you are.

Be at least as interested in your reactions as in the situation or person that causes you to react.

es tan importante escuchar sin juzgar a las personas que sufren cualquier tipo de problema.

To establish a Scriptural counseling relationship, the speaker says we must know the person to the level that they feel like they are known and to the level that we are moved by the hardness of their experience.

Scripture exists because we need revelation. We can't see reality clearly with the naked eye. Scripture is God's technology that allows us to see everything we need to see.