First one must understand conditioning – only then can we speak of choice

Belief is just the place of understanding you are at the moment. Without an open mind, you will be standing in that one spot forever.

Your own guilt is your own fault.

When we know what we most fear, we know what we most care about.

You were…are…what I heard. Every note.

She’s a woman, you’re a dude. You’re not supposed to understand her. That’s not what she’s after…. She doesn’t want you to understand her. She knows that’s impossible. She just wants you to understand yourself....

One very beautiful virtue one can master is to learn to ignore; to ignore perceived and intended slights no matter how infuriating they might feel. Not to ignore in anger, rather, to ignore with understanding....

As you have seen the treachery of love because of me, I have seen my cruelty because of you. But you learned mercy from me, and from you I learned resilience. As you came to...

I really tried, or so I thought, to avoid lying, but it seemed to me that they forced it on me by the difference in their vision of things, so that I was always transposing...

But there was a time when each of us stood naked before the world, confronting life as a serious problem with which we were intimately and passionately concerned. There was a time when it was...

He used to annoy me with sophistry that we all chose our destiny. Then one day I told him that that’s great when fate offers you a nice set of destinies to choose from, but...

It’s very strange that WE always wish to listen good for ourselves from others, but at the same time becomes tough for us to speak good for OTHERS.

Lai saprastu savus vistuvākos cilvēkus, man jāsaprot pašam sevi. Jo kopš manas piedzimšanas brīža es esmu pakļauts tādu pašu spēku iedarbībai kā viņi. Es esmu pakļauts laikam, un laiks ir pakļauts man. Es esmu pakļauts...

The moment when you realize no one understands, no one ever did, no one ever will.You were alone, you always will be.But may be, just may be, someone will look up to you someday. And...

940Home is not where you live but where they understand you.

The Passenger”. Listening, I think, You will never know how much I understand you.

No psychologist should pretend to understand what he does not understand… Only fools and charlatans know everything and understand nothing.

To understand and to know someone better, you need is to love them first

The main condition for the achievement of love is the overcoming of one’s narcissism. The narcissistic orientation is one in which one experiences as real only that which exists within oneself, while the phenomena in...

You know you do not understand yourself if everyone seems to understand you.

When we want to talk, we can instead listen, and let our attentiveness to another’s need to speak be our silent statement.

There’s an old saying that great writing is simple but not easy, and so it is. The search for that one plain but inobvious [SIC] word that will do the work of five, the agony...

Life is a chain of interrelated puzzles.Pain and Sorrow are some necessities to greater heights and people may be the architects of our woes. We may develop some hatred for such people through whom the...

What a laugh, though. To think that one human being could ever really know another. You could get used to each other, get so habituated that you could speak their words right along with them,...

We must resist in-group thinking and practice seeing every soul as a brother or sister in a larger grouping of humans on earth.

the greatest clue to changing people is to know and understand what trigger change in people and effectively apply such things in wisdom.

Questioning authority doesn’t make you resistant; who should follow blindly without knowing the destination

The conflicts we have with the outside world are often conflicts we have within ourselves.

In life we all should learn to forgive but never forget. Best way to learn from our mistakes.

If the key to life is figuring yourself out; family must be the lock.

the underlying struggle – between worlds of plenty and worlds of want; between the modern and the ancient; between those who embrace our teeming, colliding, irksome diversity, while still insisting on a set of values...

Acting on our interests refines our understanding of what we are good at and what we value. The experiences we have along the way sometimes introduce us to new values that enhance and enlarge our...

We’re merely one tree with various types, shapes and sizes of leaves that all wave differently in the breeze

The greatest barrier to self-understanding is our fear of knowing the truth within ourselves, but when we do understand ourselves, we greatly enhance what we are capable of.

I understood. I suffered. But whose sake was I suffering for? I kept thinking of Señor Saguaro’s question: Whose affection do you value more, hers or the others’?