It’s easy to love those we like, but what about those we don’t, and why would we anyways? There may be someone who doesn’t like us, yet they’re accepting of us, unconditionally loving us.Love means, I accept you as someone as imperfect as I am, someone who wants security and acceptance, someone who may be...

A friend is one that knows you as you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have become, and still, gently allows you to grow.

I think true happiness comes out of peace. Peace comes out of many things, but it comes from fundamentally understanding yourself.

Relationship is understanding. It is a process of self-revelation. Relationship is the mirror in which you discover yourself — to be is to be related.

It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.

You couldn’t stand to see what terrifies warlords.

hindi dahil sa hindi mo naiintindihan ang isang bagay ay kasinungalingan na ito. at hindi lahat ng kaya mong intindihin ay katotohanan.

Today I began to criticise myself and look at myself with a judgmental eye… but then instead of going all out in that direction, I stopped and I began to understand me. And then I began to be patient with me. And then I began to feel a softness in the middle of my chest....

Everything is going to be alright’ doesn’t mean stubbing your toe won’t hurt anymore, but it reinforces that what takes place today, good or bad, is just a small piece of the larger puzzle

When people recover from depression via psychotherapy, their attributions about recovery are likely to be different than those of people who have been treated with medication. Psychotherapy is a learning experience. Improvement is not produced by an external substance, but by changes within the person. It is like learning to read, write or ride a...

[Scientific humanism is] the only worldview compatible with science’s growing knowledge of the real world and the laws of nature.

Knowledge is a matter of knowing facts. Wisdom is a matter of understanding and applying principles. A certain amount of knowledge is necessary for wisdom, and without wisdom, knowledge is not only useless, it’s dangerous.

Was it your understanding that by doing what you were doing, Bonny was facing prison?

My brother, he says. My brother is dead.”And again he asks me to kill him. One more time before he falls to his knees and sobs. And i get it. I do. Because i have a brother too.

When I looked at myself through the prism of awareness, great tears came as I connected with how this wounded child felt.

I believe that we do not know anything for certain, but everything probably.

Deep in the human unconscious is a pervasive need for a logical universe that makes sense. But the real universe is always one step beyond logic.

Lastly, and doubtless always, but particularly at the end of the last century, certain scholars considered that since the appearances on our scale were finally the only important ones for us, there was no point in seeking what might exist in an inaccessible domain. I find it very difficult to understand this point of view...

Given a thimbleful of [dramatic] facts we rush to make generalizations as large as a tub.

…that breath of relief that there is someone in the world, finally, who understands what hurts you.

Just because you don’t understand it doesn’t mean it isn’t so.

To be totally understanding makes one very indulgent.

At the conclusion of all our studies we must try once again to experience the human soul as soul, and not just as a buzz of bioelectricity; the human will as will, and not just a surge of hormones; the human heart not as a fibrous, sticky pump, but as the metaphoric organ of understanding....

3. War Peace & Action – 3B.02 LOVE & PEACEHatred goes not by hatred,Violence not by violence,Disappear hatred and violence,By love, understanding, non-violence.[241]- 3B

They set down all their knowledge on bits of leather or waxed wood or tablets of stone and think that is wisdom. What good does it do a piece of stone to have knowledge?…know it is the understanding graven in the heart that makes men wise.

Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation but as a question.[A caution he gives his students, to be wary of dogmatism.]

…treat people with understanding when you can, and fake it when you can’tuntil you do understand.

We always vilify what we don’t understand.

I’m not asking you to walk in my shoes; I’d never wish my afflictions on anyone. But could you walk beside me on secure ground and reach to hold my hand?

All I have learned in life really just boils down to this: there is only one difference between the so-called wise and the so-called foolish…and between those who are truly happy and those who are not. Those who are wise – and those who are happy – embrace and appreciate life. Those who are unhappy...

Understanding is a wellspring of life unto him that hath it: but the instruction of fools is folly.

The only personal branding consultant who can ever hope to have a clear understanding of you and your value can be found in the mirror.

Fifteen years ago, a business manager from the United States came to Plum Village to visit me. His conscience was troubled because he was the head of a firm that designed atomic bombs. I listened as he expressed his concerns. I knew if I advised him to quit his job, another person would only replace...

Reading Plato should be easy; understanding Plato can be difficult.

We all say we hate being misunderstood and how we desperately want to find people who understand us. But it is not lack of compatible people that keeps us lonely. There is no shortage of people on your journey. The real, secret obstacle that we have against finding authentic, genuine relationships with people is our...

Face it,” Gary told her kindly. “You’ll never catch up. You just do as much as you can and take the punishments without saying anything. Sometimes I wonder if that isn’t what they’re really trying to teach us–to take plenty and keep our mouths shut.

Peter was so understanding, just like Adam was. They were very understanding of the situation. They know it’s a new era of the NHL. Other teams are doing different things, but other teams don’t have the quality and roots we have.

How she helps me is with understanding the subtleties required to accomplish this task,

If I can’t picture it, I can’t understand it.

Simon: You’re in a dangerous line of work, Jayne. Odds are you’ll be under my knife again, often. So I want you to understand one thing very clearly: No matter what you do or say or plot, no matter how you come down on us, I will never, ever harm you. You’re on this table,...

We are all students of the world; frail embodied consciousnesses struggling to understand, and be a meaningful part of this great, mysterious gift of life.

Memories are meant to serve you, not enslave you.

I am somewhat of a meliorist. That is to say, I act as an optimist because I find I cannot act at all, as a pessimist. One often feels helpless in the face of the confusion of these times, such a mass of apparently uncontrollable events and experiences to live through, attempt to understand, and...

It is a joy to share good advice. It takes a grateful ear to listen wisely. It’s always up for us to take the right action and fulfilling path that can truly serve for what is the best.

I want hard stories, I demand them from myself. Hard stories are worth the difficulty. It seems to me the only way I have forgiven anything, understood anything, is through that process of opening up to my own terror and pain and reexamining it, re-creating it in the story, and making it something different, making...

You don’t have to stay trapped in your thoughts just because you think them.

In a general sense, I admit to valuing the worldviews of men under the age of 40 and women over the age of 30.

I would say that introverts make some of the best international philosophers. The less common attribute of the introverted lifestyle – a close societal connection, as such a connection disappears or changes in relevance as the currents of the winds change – leaves too much room for one’s own cultural bias. Instead, introverts tend to...

The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell.

Understanding” is a word that I cherish. Understanding is what helps us to love before we judge. Understanding helps us to know more of ourselves and do the same to others.