Quotes About Understanding

They are trying to explain what is not explainable. That is why many young people try to find something idealistic in dao – because they need something to live.

Practice the precept: find without seeking

Rid myself of the accumulated errors and untruths. Get to know my resources, make sure of them.

Pure Reason left to herself relieth on axioms and essential premises which she can neither question nor resolve.

Since to be loved endures, To love is wise.

Self-love is an ending, she said, and not a beginning. Love means love of the thing sung, not of the song or the singing.

Drop a word in the ocean of meaning and concentric ripples form. To define a single word means to try to catch those ripples. No one's hands are fast enough.

There is no truer truth obtainable By Man than comes of music.

Such ever was love's way: to rise, it stoops.

All poetry is difficult to read,—The sense of it is, anyhow.

It is only when we start understanding on an emotional level, on a gut level, that we were powerless to do anything any differently than we did that we can Truly start to Love ourselves.

Discernment is having the eyes to see, and the ears to hear - and the ability to feel the emotional energy that is Truth.

It wasn't your fault. You didn't do anything wrong, you were just a little kid.

we need to not confuse the intellectual with the emotional (forgiving someone intellectually does not make the energy of anger and pain disappear) - and to not kid ourselves that using the tools allows us to avoid the process.

Oh wad some power the giftie gie usTo see oursels as ithers see us!It wad frae monie a blunder free us, An' foolish notion.

Then gently scan your brother man,Still gentler sister woman;Tho' they may gang a kennin wrang,To step aside is human.

O would some power the giftie gie us to see ourselves as others see us.

O wad some Power the giftie gie us To see oursels as ithers see us!

Then gently scan your brother man, still gentler sister woman, though they may gang a kennin wrang, to step aside is human

ah the power that gift would give us, to see ourselves as others see us.

I want someone to laugh with me, someone to be grave with me, someone to please me and help my discrimination with his or her own remark, and at times, no doubt, to admire my acuteness and penetration

Everything, saith Epictetus, hath two handles,the one to be held by, the other not.

Why doth one man's yawning make another yawn?

Anybody who believes that the way to a man's heart is through his stomach flunked geography.