Feeling very surprised too at myself. I knew what was happening, O my brothers. I was like growing up.

Understanding requires insight. Insight must be anchored.

We must take the money out of politics, and end psychopathic, self-destructive government and corporate madness.

I hope I can never trust my wife. If I trust her it means I know her. If I know her it means I understand her. If I understand her it means I can control...

Not everything is understood the way it is presented and not everyone presents the way it is understood.

Nothing is wrong with her that is dangerous or harmful. She just feels deeper than others

Never chase a person, because if they want to be in your life, they will. It amazes me how people go out their way for someone who does nothing for them, doesn’t encourage or support...

scraps” that the abusive priests treated us like. They would use us as a scrap is used and then simply toss us aside. I was moved to tears. Holding it in my hands, I could...

I believe that only scientists can understand the universe. It is not so much that I have confidence in scientists being right, but that I have so much in nonscientists being wrong.

The manlier you are, the harder it is to understand what a woman wants: there is not a hint of female brain in you.

Erklären heißt verzeihen, erklärt zu werden heißt Verzeihung erlangen […]

Two people can only live as one when each is prepared to give and receive trust and understanding. Above that lies respect. Without respect for how the other feels, no marriage is worthwhile.

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

Will Human Nature destroy Nature and Humans?

Enlightenment is man’s release from his self-incurred tutelage. Tutelage is man’s inability to make use of his understanding without direction from another. Self-incurred is this tutelage when its cause lies not in lack of reason...

[The judge also said that a] memorandum of understanding … does not establish that any requested records are exempt from disclosure.

If you can’t understand it without an explanation, you can’t understand it with an explanation.

The truly terrible thing is that everybody has their reasons.

We are each other’s harvest; we are each other’s business; we are each other’s magnitude and bond.

Who and what you affiliate your life around will likely determine who you’ll become.

Be the one who nurtures and builds. Be the one who has an understanding and a forgiving heart one who looks for the best in people. Leave people better than you found them.

We pass through the present with our eyes blindfolded. We are permitted merely to sense and guess at what we are actually experiencing. Only later when the cloth is untied can we glance at the...

Your hearts know in silence the secrets of the days and the nights.But your ears thirst for the sound of your heart’s knowledge.You would know in words that which you have always known in thought.You...

You should always be ready to apply these two rules of action, the first, to do nothing other than what the kingly and law-making art ordains for the benefits of humankind, and, the second, to...

To love me, my family does not need to understand me.

What does freedom mean if we accept the fundamental premise that humans are social beings, raised in certain social and historical contexts and belonging to particular communities that shape their desires and understandings of the...

Understanding did not provide solace or make the pain go away; in many ways, understanding was just more salt in the emotional wound. Ignorance allowed one to fight back with unfettered cruelty. Understanding inspired empathy,...

If only this great concern we have for our own sensitive feelings expanded to encompass the feelings of our fellow men.

People so often loose sight of the magic in life once they understand how it works.

I love the dark hours of my being.My mind deepens into them.There I can find, as in old letters,the days of my life, already lived,and held like a legend, and understood.

Understanding that rests in what it does not understand is the finest.

In sandy soil, when deep you delve, you reach the springs below; The more you learn, the freer streams of wisdom flow.

But psychology is a more tricky field, in which even outstanding authorities have been known to run in circles, ‘describing things which everyone knows in language which no one understands’.

The fundamental delusion of humanity is to suppose that I am here and you are out there. -Yasutani Roshi, Zen master (1885-1973)

Often times, the greatest peace comes of surrender.

Was it like this then? Seventy-five years or so ago? Did a group of people sit around and cast their votes on initiating the Hunger Games? Was there dissent? Did someone make a case for...

We made a few adjustments and guys just came in understanding where they should be. We had to turn things around and that was one of the things we had to do, turn around our...

I pass and I stay, like the Universe.

The most courageous act in politics is to try to understand your opponent.

People fear what they do not understand.

If I am going to invest in Russian gas, I should have a clear understanding that I can bring that gas to market.

I may conclude this chapter by quoting a saying of Professor Agassiz, that whenever a new and startling fact is brought to light in science, people first say, ‘it is not true,’ then that ‘it...

A favor is a friendly, gracious, kind, generous or obliging act that is freely granted. It is offered and not solicited.A promise is a declaration assuring that one will or will not do something. It...

Unless we remember we cannot understand.

To better understand God we must first shatter our own idea of God – maybe even day after day. Maybe he’s too great to stay compressed in the human mind. Maybe he splits it wide...

Fang swerved closer to me, big and supremely graceful, like a black panther with wings. Oh, God. I’m so stupid. Forget I just said that. “He needs a Band-Aid,” I said. A look passed between...

Mathematics is the study of analogies between analogies. All science is. Scientists want to show that things that don’t look alike are really the same. That is one of their innermost Freudian motivations. In fact,...

…lose your mind so that you can gain a new way of knowing.

It is more than probable that I am not understood; but I fear, indeed, that it is in no manner possible to convey to the mind of the merely general reader, an adequate idea of...

Taking the one seat describes two related aspects of spiritual work. Outwardly, it means selecting one practice and teacher among all the possibilities, and inwardly, it means having the determination to stick with that practice...