Quotes about Understanding

Peace stems from forgiveness.

The world softens when we soften

Today I seek to love those whom I do not like.

Anger instead of love, is our wall. Any situation that pushes our buttons is a situation where we don't yet have the capacity to be unconditionally loving.

I resist all temptation today to judge how I think others should behave. I cannot know the deeper forces at work within anyone's heart. My deliverance comes from accepting all people, not judging or controlling them.

A Course in Miracles says that the most effective way to teach a child is not by saying 'Don't do that,' but 'Do this.' We don't reach the light through endless analysis of the dark. We reach the light by choosing the light. Light means understanding. Through understanding, we are healed.

Enlightenment is but a recognition, not a change at all.

The only thing lacking in any situation is our own awareness of love.

Until we have forgiven someone's darkness, we don't really know what love is.

We ask Him to save us from our tendency to condemn. We ask Him to reveal to us the innocence within others, that we might see it within ourselves.

Dear God, let me see this person through your eyes." In accepting the Atonement, we are asking to see as God sees, think as God thinks, love as God loves. We are asking for help in seeing someone's innocence.

It's often just enough to be with someone. I don't need to touch them. Not even talk. A feeling passes between you both. You're not alone.