Quotes by Understanding We are living in uncertain times. In a world where peace seems to be in short supply, I feel like the world is desperate to see an example of "peace that passes understanding." When someone goes "all in" for God, committing their whole life to Him, peace is one of the gifts we are promised. Someone who is all in for God can take to heart that even though we will have trouble in this world, our lives are in the hands of the one who has overcome this world. When we've been filled with God's peace, only then can we turn around and become instruments of His peace to a hurting world. Matthew West understandinghurtheart A poem is like a person. The more you know someone, the more you realize there is always something more to know and understand. A final understanding could probably only begin upon permanent separation, or death. This is why we come back to certain poems, as we do to places or people, to experience and re-experience, to see ourselves for who we truly are, and to continue to be changed. Matthew Zapruder separationunderstandingpeople Civilization has developed executive powers far beyond its understanding. Maude Meagher executive-powerunderstandingcivilization We read literature for a lot of reasons, but two of the most compelling ones are to get out of ourselves and our life stories and – equally important – to find ourselves by understanding our own life stories more clearly in the context of others. Maureen Corrigan understandingimportanttwo To understand is to experience harmony between what we aim at and what is given, between the intention and the performance - and the body is our anchorage in the world. Maurice Merleau-Ponty understandingbodyworld I remember when A love Supreme was released - I heard it at a friends house. ... Man it was incredible. That record sounded different than the rest. I was trying to gather my spirituality together, trying to get an understanding of life ..... I felt Coltrane was the first musician who made a transition from one side to the other. Maurice White understandinghousemen Montaigne [puts] not self-satisfied understanding but a consciousness astonished at itself at the core of human existence. Maurice Merleau-Ponty consciousnessunderstandingself Understanding a metaphor is like deciphering a code or unraveling a riddle. Max Black unravelingmetaphorunderstanding Modern photography must do more than entertain, it must incite thought and by its clear statements of actuality, cultivate a sympathetic understanding of men and women and the life they live and create. Max Dupain understandingphotographymen Understanding and accepting diversity enables us to see that each of us is needed.. It also enables us to begin to think about being abandoned to the strengths of others, of admitting that we cannot know or do everything. Max De Pree diversityunderstandingthinking Maps can be a remarkably powerful tool for understanding the world and how it works, but they show only what you ask them to. Max Fisher powerfulunderstandingtools There's something in this country that is so opposed to understanding the complexity of children. Maurice Sendak understandingcountrychildren Understanding the diversity of our gifts enables us to begin taking the crucial step of trusting each other. Max De Pree trusting-each-otherdiversityunderstanding Ayurveda is not just about nutrition or herbology, it has a unique tool for diagnosis, diagnosis of understanding the human constitution is different from person to person. Each one has a unique metabolic system. Maya Tiwari ayurvedaunderstandingunique Suffering comes from not understanding or a full potential or full powers within ourselves to heal, to nurture, to nourish. Maya Tiwari full-potentialunderstandingsuffering Suffering is there because there's something we're not understanding about our full divinity, and there are so many ways we could go into understanding. Maya Tiwari divinityunderstandingsuffering You really look to understanding someone's psyche, and the choices that would best support them, and help to energetically open those areas of their being able to know that everything in life comes to us when our entire organism is clean and clear. Maya Tiwari supportunderstandingchoices We cannot afford not to fight for growth and understanding, even when it is painful, as it is bound to be. May Sarton growthfightingunderstanding A traditionalist can sometimes be looked at as someone who is a fundamentalist, or they can be looked at as someone with a very strict set of understandings of human nature. But a traditionalist in the Vedic tradition, is one who is open-hearted, who does not judge, there's nothing to judge whatsoever, who understands the basic understanding and karma of all of it, and who basically helps when help is called for. Maya Tiwari karmaunderstandingjudging I am realizing once and for all the difference as far as I am concerned of women and men and the necessity for both. With a man, however tender he is, one is feeding him - one is always and eternally understanding, mothering, supplying him with faith in himself (not in you). May Sarton differencesunderstandingmen«112113114115116117118119120121122»
