Quotes About Knowing

You MUST know You to do YOU!

this letting things go is sometimes called nonattachment, but not with the cool, remote quality often associated with that word. this nonattachment has more kindness and more intimacy than that. it's actually a desire to know, like the questions of a three-year-old. we want to know our pain so we can stop endlessly running. we want to know our pleasure so we can stop endlessly grasping.

it was an odd sensation, knowing intellectually that they were machines but emotionally reacting anyhow.

the pleasure of knowing secrets was doubled by telling them to people.

Blake said Milton was a true poet and of the Devil's party without knowing it. I am of the Devil's party and know it.

the pleasure of knowing secrets was doubled by telling them

because the pleasure of knowing secrets was doubled by telling them to people.

Christian spirituality involves a transformation of the self that occurs only when God and self are both deeply known. Both, therefore, have an important place in Christian spirituality. There is no deep knowing of God without a deep knowing of self, and no deep knowing of self without a deep knowing of God. John Calvin wrote, "Nearly the whole of sacred doctrine consists in these two parts: knowledge of God and of ourselves."3

Someone has said that Satan knows nothing of true pleasure and satisfaction, that he is an expert only in amusements. David had learned the difference, and we would do well to imitate him. True pleasure comes from knowing God, being known by God, and being at rest in His presence.

composure , n . You told me anyway, even though I didn't want to know. A stupid drunken fling while you were visiting Toby in Austin. Months ago. And the thing I hate the most is knowing how much hinges on my reaction, how your unburdening can only lead to me being burdened. If I lose it now, I will lose you, too. I know that. I hate it. You wait for my response.

Wishing the best for you, knowing it was the worst of me.

It is easy for me to say it took me awhile to know. That is about as accurate as I can get. There were sneak previews of knowing, for sure. Instances that me feel, oh, this could be right. But the moment I shifted from a hope that needed to be proven to a certainty that would be continually challenged? There's no pinpointing that.

The heart knows nothing except its own mind.

And the thing I hate the most is knowing how much hinges on my reaction, how your unburdening can only lead to me being burdened.

Whatever secrets the dead take with them, they should be allowed to keep. That's my new philosophy. Or put another way: the time to properly know someone is when he, or she, is still alive.

I recalled the words of Yeshua to simply be a witness to what I knew.

The beginning of a solution to a problem is never far away. All you have to do is ask. That's not weakness. That's the strength of knowing that you have to face your problems.

Dignity is not located in seeking equality with the white man and his civilization: it is not about assuming the attitudes of the master who has allowed his slaves to eat at his table. It is about being oneself with all the multiplicities, systems and contradictions of one's way of being, doing and knowing. It is about being true to one's Self.

A lot of being a good voice is knowing when I have a place to speak and when it's appropriate. And to speak from the heart when I do.

Human intelligence is a reflection of the intelligence that produces everything. In knowing, we are simply extending the intelligence that comes to and constitutes us. We mimic the mind of God, so to speak. Or better, we continue and extend it.

It is not only a matter of not caring who knows - it is also a matter of knowing who cares.

Whoever knows God, does not (any longer) say "God".

When you find the absolute values, you are important to this world because you know what is important. Those who know what is truly important are helpful to this world, because they won't put their personal concerns before what is important to all.

Our true nature doesn't need any explanation or demonstration to know itself. It just knows because knowing is part of its nature.