Quotes About Understanding

How do you turn down the volume on your personal-drama earphones and learn how to listen to other people?

The purpose of our existence is not to kill each other. Neither is it to encourage or manipulate circumstances that would result in such acts.

Information, contemplated over time, is knowledge.

Garth was a reservoir of brilliant music, and I wanted to dive in deeply to learn and understand enough of it to appreciate its rewards.

All I really need to know about how to live and what to do and how to be I learned in kindergarten. Remember the Dick-and-Jane books and the first word you learned--the biggest word of all--look.

When Silent Cal Coolidge noted that "You don't have to explain something you haven't said

He not only had the gift of "reading" men and women, of seeing into their hearts, he also had the gift of putting himself in their place, of not just seeing what they felt but of feeling what they felt, almost as if what had happened to them had happened to him, too.

Unless some long-lost trove of letters or ' a forgotten diary turns up, I believe that we probably .now know.all

always a challenge. You must come to understand the person, the motivations, the key events that altered the course of history.

women, security means not having to guess what a man is thinking or where he wants to go. Furthermore, it means not having to take responsibility for making all the decisions and not having to take charge.

It is actually a person's rough edges and human imperfections that give others something to connect with.

Premenstrual Syndrome: Just before their periods women behave the way men do all the time.

Being a mother is an attitude, not a biological relation.

Each age needs its own language for understanding enduring truths…The ancient world didn't have much of what we call reality; they lived, instead, by the slender threads. We have gained ego reality but have lost the mystical and religious functions that should guide our lives.

The object of life is not happiness, but to serve God or the Grail. All of the Grail quests are to serve God. If one understands this and drops his idiotic notion that the meaning of life is personal happiness, then one will find that elusive quality immediately at hand.

We must always couch our current scientific knowledge as "currently unfalsified.

My cat speaks sign language with her tail.

Margaret noticed that he was one of the many men who classify women into those you talk to and those with whom words merely impede the way.

Those who deem this either weak of me or incredible are invited to find themselves in a like situation.

The first step towards mastering time is always to make time meaningless

find the right words for your troubles, and your troubles become half-joys.

Haven't you noticed by this time that everyone's lives are full of things you can't understand? The exceptional thing is the thing you can understand.

Our practice is not to clear up the mystery. It is to make the mystery clear.

Our personal natal horoscope provides us with a powerful tool for understanding our own energy signature and how it [one person, or, a group] is affected by other energy forms including matter.