Quotes about Understanding

The more you understand, the more you love; the more you love, the more you understand.

If you crave acceptance and recognition and try to change yourself to fit what other people want you to be, you will suffer all your life. True happiness and true power lie in understanding yourself, accepting yourself, having confidence in yourself.

Men cannot be our enemies--even men called Vietcong! If we kill men, what brothers will we have left? With whom shall we live then?

Avalokiteshvara means "the one who listens deeply to the sounds of the world.

Concentration, samadhi in Sanskrit, is a powerful force that you can generate to make a breakthrough, to see clearly what is there and understand its true nature.

Before you do the work of reconciliation with another, you need to restore communication with yourself.

We all worked, but we didn't work all day. There was time for us to study the sutras, practice writing, listen to the teachings given by our teacher, chant, and meditate. Most important was meditation. My teacher taught that meditation was the door to understanding, and the career of monks and nuns.

When you produce a thought of hatred, anger, or despair, it harms you, and it also harms the world. None of us wants to be continued like that. We all want to produce thoughts of compassion, understanding, and love.

You must always check things out by going to the person in question and asking for his or her help: "Dear one, I am suffering so much, help me please.

Try to learn something about everything.

Let us understand, once for all, that the ethical progress of society depends, not on imitating the cosmic process, still less in running away from it, but in combating it.

He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.