A psychoneurosis must be understood, ultimately, as the suffering of a soul which has not discovered its meaning.

Saying nothing… sometimes says the most.

Only one who devotes himself to a cause with his whole strength and soul can be a true master. For this reason mastery demands all of a person.

Begin to see yourself as a soul with a body rather than a body with a soul.

It requires more courage to suffer than to die.

People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.

I am no longer sure of anything. If I satiate my desires, I sin but I deliver myself from them; if I refuse to satisfy them, they infect the whole soul.

I don’t hate women – they just sometimes make me mad.

Most damage that others do us is out of fear, humiliation and pain. Those feelings occur in all of us, not just in those of us who profess a certain religious or racial devotion.

To attain any assured knowledge about the soul is one of the most difficult things in the world.

You can see neurosis from below – as a sickness – as most psychiatrists see it. Or you can understand it as a compassionate man might: respecting the neurosis as a fumbling and inefficient effort toward good ends.

If you can’t read, the only thing you can do is enjoy the pictures, not the whole story. Reading is the key to knowledge. Knowledge is the key to understanding. So read on, young man! Read on, young lady!

When we believe the best of people, we let go of each thing they do that is hurtful to us. And we choose to think things like, ‚I don’t believe they meant to hurt me.‘ ‚Maybe they’re having a bad day or don’t feel well.‘ ‚They probably don’t even realize how they sound.‘

The beginnings and ends of shadow lie between the light and darkness and may be infinitely diminished and infinitely increased. Shadow is the means by which bodies display their form. The forms of bodies could not be understood in detail but for shadow.

The less you know, the more you believe.

I read the book of Job last night, I don’t think God comes out well in it.

So when you are listening to somebody, completely, attentively, then you are listening not only to the words, but also to the feeling of what is being conveyed, to the whole of it, not part of it.

I’m no longer just a candidate. I’m the President. I know what it means to send young Americans into battle, for I have held in my arms the mothers and fathers of those who didn’t return. I’ve shared the pain of families who’ve lost their homes, and the frustration of workers who’ve lost their jobs.

My father wasn’t around when I was a kid, and I used to always say, ‚Why me? Why don’t I have a father? Why isn’t he around? Why did he leave my mother?‘ But as I got older I looked deeper and thought, ‚I don’t know what my father was going through, but if he was around all the time, would I be who I am today?‘

The greatest thing in family life is to take a hint when a hint is intended-and not to take a hint when a hint isn’t intended.

The artist forges himself to the others, midway between the beauty he cannot do without and the community he cannot tear himself away from. That is why true artists scorn nothing: they are obliged to understand rather than to judge.

The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not.

I read Plato’s ‚Republic.‘ I read it through about five times until I could actually understand it.

Write in such a way as that you can be readily understood by both the young and the old, by men as well as women, even by children.

A better world shall emerge based on faith and understanding.

Unfortunately, after Sept. 11, there was an outburst in America of intense suffering and patriotism, and the Bush administration was very shrewd and effective in painting anyone who disagreed with the policies as unpatriotic or even traitorous.

Jesus is a divine guest inside of you all the time – one who loves, understands, sees and hears you. He wants to live in oneness with you… to be the centerpiece of everything you do.

Understanding does not cure evil, but it is a definite help, inasmuch as one can cope with a comprehensible darkness.

We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect. The judgement of the intellect is only part of the truth.

If you’re in business or politics, you need to have an intense understanding of what’s going on around you.

All the world is full of suffering. It is also full of overcoming.

Any religion that professes to be concerned about the souls of men and is not concerned about the slums that damn them, the economic conditions that strangle them and the social conditions that cripple them is a spiritually moribund religion awaiting burial.

You can hold yourself back from the sufferings of the world, that is something you are free to do and it accords with your nature, but perhaps this very holding back is the one suffering you could avoid.

We pledge ourselves to liberate all our people from the continuing bondage of poverty, deprivation, suffering, gender and other discrimination.

The brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding is joyous.

The greatest service that can be offered to children who show personality traits or inclinations that might not be understood by the adults around them is to allow them to express their own unique humanity.

Everywhere the human soul stands between a hemisphere of light and another of darkness; on the confines of the two everlasting empires, necessity and free will.

My fate cannot be mastered; it can only be collaborated with and thereby, to some extent, directed. Nor am I the captain of my soul; I am only its noisiest passenger.

Meditation demands an astonishingly alert mind; it is the understanding of the totality of life in which every form of fragmentation has ceased.

So there’s no guarantee if you like the music you will empathize with the culture and the people who made it. It doesn’t necessarily happen. I think it can, but it doesn’t necessarily happen. Which is kind of a shame.

Every man supposes himself not to be fully understood or appreciated.

If you do not understand a man you cannot crush him. And if you do understand him, very probably you will not.

Anyone who says he can see through women is missing a lot.

It is only to the individual that a soul is given.

You have to understand that people that are hurting are going to criticize.

There’s always going to be people who don’t understand or accept the united science, and I will just ignore them, as I’m only acting and communicating on the science.

Facts do not speak for themselves. They speak for or against competing theories. Facts divorced from theories or visions are mere isolated curiosities.

If… many influential people have failed to understand, or have just forgotten, what we were up against in the Cold War and how we overcame it, they are not going to be capable of securing, let alone enlarging, the gains that liberty has made.

Whether if soul did not exist time would exist or not, is a question that may fairly be asked; for if there cannot be someone to count there cannot be anything that can be counted, so that evidently there cannot be number; for number is either what has been, or what can be, counted.

But although all our knowledge begins with experience, it does not follow that it arises from experience.

The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.

We may have our private opinions but why should they be a bar to the meeting of hearts?

If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.

The answer I found is you stay away from the people who make fun of you, and you join these ad hoc groups who understand your craziness.

It’s hard for me to grasp the concept of somebody being nervous when I’m talking to them.

Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate.

The modern mind is in complete disarray. Knowledge has stretched itself to the point where neither the world nor our intelligence can find any foot-hold. It is a fact that we are suffering from nihilism.

Frisbeetarianism is the belief that when you die, your soul goes up on the roof and gets stuck.

While physics and mathematics may tell us how the universe began, they are not much use in predicting human behavior because there are far too many equations to solve. I’m no better than anyone else at understanding what makes people tick, particularly women.

I’m actually starting to like more and more people who have convictions that are unpopular.

No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means.