Understanding Quotes

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Marinate in your own being, grow in your wisdom, mature in understanding, be firm in your conviction, be strong in your Self. — Mooji
I am free. If I want to be sad, it is my freedom. If I want to be happy, it is my freedom. Once you… — Rajneesh
Faith is the avenue to salvation. Not intellectual understanding. Not money. Not your works. Just simple faith. How much faith? The faith of a mustard… — Billy Graham
Religion becomes a matter of belief, and belief acts as a limitation on the mind; and the mind then is never free. But it is… — Jiddu Krishnamurti
Well, my wife always says to me, and I think it's true, it's very difficult for us to understand the Elizabethan understanding and enjoyment and… — Mark Rylance
The one and only method of teaching men the true religion was established by Divine Providence for the whole world, and for all times: that… — Bartolome de las Casas
How can this come about?" Mary asked. "The Holy Spirit will come upon you," the angel answered, "and the power of the Most High will… — John of Damascus
The dramatic threat of ecological breakdown is teaching us the extent to which greed and selfishness are contrary to the order of creation. ...A given… — Pope John Paul II
The value of the personal relationship to all things is that it creates intimacy and intimacy creates understanding and understanding creates love. — Anais Nin
Philosophers, as things now stand, are all too fond of offering criticism from on high instead of studying and understanding things from within. — Edmund Husserl
Understanding is simple. Knowing is complicated. — Robert Fripp
Everyone has a responsibility to not only tolerate another person's point of view, but also to accept it eagerly as a challenge to your own… — Arlo Guthrie
It is only by practicing through a continual succession of agreeable and disagreeable situations that we acquire true strengths. To accept that pain is inherent… — Shunryu Suzuki
Any man who is intelligent must, on considering that health is of the utmost value to human beings, have the personal understanding necessary to help… — Hippocrates
In deep self-acceptance grows a compassionate understanding. As one Zen master said when I asked if he ever gets angry, 'Of course I get angry,… — Jack Kornfield
There is no life without work, anxieties or tensions. Peace is not found in avoiding these but in understanding them and controlling their force. — Wendy Beckett
Enlightenment is the understanding that this is all, that this is perfect, that this is it. Enlightenment is not an achievement, it is an understanding… — Rajneesh
I believe that women have a capacity for understanding and compassion which a man structurally does not have, does not have it because he cannot… — Barbara Jordan
The greatest power you possess in life is your understanding that life gives you a fresh start any moment you choose. — Guy Finley
When I say, "I love you," it's not because I want you or because I can't have you. It has nothing to do with me.… — Joss Whedon

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