Quotes by Understanding The social sciences offer equal promise for improving human welfare; our lives can be greatly improved through a deeper understanding of individual and collective behavior. But to realize this promise, the social sciences, like the natural sciences, need to match their institutional structures to today's intellectual challenges. Nicholas A. Christakis understandingintellectualchallenges If we face our unpleasant feelings with care, affection, and nonviolence, we can transform them into a kind of energy that is healthy and has the capacity to nourish us. By the work of mindful observation, our unpleasant feelings can illuminate so much for us, offering us insight and understanding into ourselves and society. Nhat Hanh healthyunderstandingoffering Understanding means throwing away your knowledge. Nhat Hanh throwingunderstandingmean One's spirituality is about one's deepest personal understanding of and interactions with Life and God... whatever those may be. Neale Donald Walsch understandingmaylife If you are protected from dark things then you have no protection of, knowledge of, or understanding of dark things when they show up. Neil Gaiman protectionunderstandingdark Meditation is not passive sitting in silence. It is sitting in awareness, free from distraction, and realizing the clear understanding that arises from concentration. Nhat Hanh meditation-practicesilenceunderstanding No blame, no reasoning, no argument, just understanding. If you understand, and you show that you understand, you can love, and the situation will change. Nhat Hanh argumentblameunderstanding It's like growing lotus flowers. You cannot grow lotus flowers on marble. You have to grow them on the mud. Without mud you cannot have lotus flowers. Without suffering, you have no way to learn how to be understanding and compassionate. Nhat Hanh understandingflowerattitude Most of your suffering comes from the lack of understanding of yourself and others. Nhat Hanh lack-of-understandingunderstandingsuffering By listening with calm and understanding, we can ease the suffering of another person. Nhat Hanh understandingleadershiplistening If we know how to create the energy of love, understanding, compassion, and beauty, then we can contribute a lot to the world. Nhat Hanh understandingcompassionbeauty Do not let anyone, of any sex, tell you that your intuitions and insights, your wisdom and your understandings, are somehow second-rate or not to be trusted. Neale Donald Walsch intuitionunderstandingsex Criminals thrive on society's understanding. Newt Gingrich thrivecriminalsunderstanding Some of our earliest codes of ethics in the so-called Western World are little more than a rewriting of the Ten Commandments. Eastern legal constructions likewise arise out of the earliest spiritual traditions and understandings. Neale Donald Walsch understandingspiritualworld Listening to and understanding our inner sufferings will resolve most of the problems we encounter. Nhat Hanh understandingsufferinglistening Is it possible that there is something we don't fully understand about God and about Life, the understanding of which would change everything? Is it possible that there is something we don't understand about ourselves, and about who we are, the understanding of which would alter our lives forever for the better? Yes. The answer is yes. Neale Donald Walsch understandinganswersforever The more that one studies the history of the building of the American nation, the clearer it becomes that it may be justly described as a laboratory experiment in understanding and in solving the world problems of tomorrow. Nicholas Murray Butler understandinghistoricalamerica In every science certain things must be accepted as first principles if the subject matter is to be understood; and these first postulates rest upon faith. Nicholas of Cusa understandingfaithscience We have to continue to learn. We have to be open. And we have to be ready to release our knowledge in order to come to a higher understanding of reality. Nhat Hanh understandingorderreality This is just the beginning, the beginning of understanding that cyberspace has no limits, no boundaries. Nicholas Negroponte cyberspaceunderstandinglimits«122123124125126127128129130131132»
