Quotes about Understanding

right isn't even the best way to think about the Bible. How about dancing? You dance with it. And to dance, you have to hear its music. And then you move in response to it.

The intellect has a way of building a fence around the heart, cutting us off from what we know to be true in a way that is hard to prove according to the categories in which proof matters.

read the story in the book of Genesis about Jacob waking up from a dream and saying, Surely God was in this place, and I, I wasn't aware of it. Jacob is waking up from a dream, but he's waking up in a larger sense as well, to the divine presence in all of life.

But maybe all of these questions are missing the point. Let's set aside all of the saying and doing and being and cutting holes in roofs and assume it's more simple than that. As some would say, "Just believe.

I felt this new life surging up within me. I don't need people to be anywhere else. I can meet everybody where they are.

Spirit is often lurking in whatever it is you most dislike.

We dance round in a ring and suppose, But the Secret sits in the middle and knows.

Families break up when they get hints you don't intend and miss hints that you do.

He will not go behind his father's saying, And he likes having thought of it so well He says again, Good fences make good neighbors.

I have a mind myself and recognize Mind when I meet with it in any guise.

How many things have to happen to you before something occurs to you

I had not taken the first step in knowledge; I had not learned to let go with the hands, As still I have not learned to with the heart. And have no wish to with the heart—nor need. That I can see. The mind—is not the heart. I may yet live, as I know others live, To wish in vain to let go with the mind— Of cares, at night, to sleep; but nothing tells me That I need learn to let go with the heart.