Quotes About Knowing

I]t is through knowing who you are not that the greatest obstacle to truly knowing yourself is removed.

It is a mind-structure needed for sensory perception, indispensable for practical purposes, but the greatest hindrance to knowing yourself.

But it is through knowing who you are not that the greatest obstacle to truly knowing yourself is removed.

surrender, non-judgment, an openness that allows life to be instead of resisting it, the capacity to hold all things in the loving embrace of your knowing.

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.

With this turnabout the lusting after reflection, the search to grasp the absolute in transitory experience, loses its grip. One no longer experiences things as objective and independent, but as reflections within knowing. Upstream of all necessity to focus attention, all conflict becomes a dance, all opposition melts as I and the 'other' are known as two faces of one reality.

The only way to know yourself is to be, which means to forget all that you think you are. In the Bible, God says, "Be still and know that I am God." This is what I mean by simply 'be.' This statement could easily, without loss, be reduced to, "Be still and know," or just "Be still," or, as we have just said, "Be." Being is knowing, knowing is stillness, and this still knowing, which is being without limit, some people call God.

This moment of non-reflection unveils the awakening before the awakening, the moment when bodhichitta arises. An awakening up-stream of reflection, upstream of all conflict in a moment of knowing without content, it is without any awareness of knowing. One cannot even speak of 'a moment of knowing.' Knowing shines.

I don't have a philosophy: I have senses... If I talk about Nature, it's not because I know what it is, But because I love it, and that's why I love it, Because when you love you never know what you love, Or why you love, or what love is. Loving is eternal innocence, And the only innocence is not thinking.

As contraries are known by contraries, so is the delight of presence best known by the torments of absence.

Cuando miro su rostro me sonríe como alguien que sabe de mí. Yo me siento rígida, lo miro humillada, yo me siento perro, me siento pulga. Mis labios van aullando roncamente mi dolor. Me retuerzo.

Consciousness, when it's unburdened by the body, is something that's ecstatic; we use the mind to watch the mind, and that's the meta-nature of our consciousness; we know that we know that we know, and that's such a delicious feeling, but when it's unburdened by biology and entropy, it becomes more than delicious: it becomes magical.

Lord, make my way prosperous, not that I achieve high station, but that my life may be an exhibit to the value of knowing God.

The ability to take pleasure in one's life is a skill and is a kind of intelligence. So intelligence is a hard thing to evaluate and it manifests itself in so many different ways. I do think the ability to know how to live a life and not be miserable is a sign of that.

Look, coaching is about human interaction and trying to know your players. Any coach would tell you that. I'm no different.

Science is for those who learn, poetry is for those who know.

We have always been a big success as parents and I get on well, always have, with my exes - and had to because there were kids involved. Obviously they've had their own lives and their own marriages, as I have, but there's a knowing closeness. They are still family, really.

I swear, there is no one better listening to the fans and knowing what they wants and how to make them cheer other than John Cena.

YOUR JOB IS TO BALANCE THE TENSION BETWEEN ENCOURAGING CONFIDENTIALITY AND KNOWING WHEN TO PROMPT ONE OF YOUR FEW TO USE DISCRETION.

Once you are in alignment with your life purpose; there will be a knowing in your heart that is so strong; that it will let you know you have found your true calling. This will provide you will all the energy you need to fulfill your mission."

But he saw Naomi as the wind traveling over the field, always searching, never stopping, and never knowing that true peace is when you curl around one little piece of something. One little fern. One little frond. One person to love.

3But You, O LORD, dknow me; You have seen me, And You have etested my heart toward You.

Memory) A few dozen cells, slung together in a lowly slug: already an infinitely reshaping machine, halfway to knowing. Matter that shaped other matter, a plastic record of light and sound, place and motion, change and resistance.

If we go to the depths of anything, we will begin to knock upon something substantial, "real," and with a timeless quality to it. We will move from the starter kit of "belief" to an actual inner knowing. This is most especially true if we have ever (1) loved deeply, (2) accompanied someone through the mystery of dying, (3) or stood in genuine life-changing awe before mystery, time, or beauty.