Quotes about understand
understanding mind seduction
Understanding is the ultimate seduction of the mind. Go to the truth beyond the mind. Stephen Levine
understanding atmosphere trying
The psychedelic experience is simply a compressed instance of what we call understanding, so that living psychedelically is trying to live in an atmosphere of continuous unfolding of understanding, so that every day you know more and see into things with greater depth than you did before. This is a process of education. Terence McKenna
understanding psychedelic should
Without an understanding and a familiarity of the psychedelic experience you should be sued for fraud if you're practicing psychotherapy.
understanding democracy said
This is not a democracy," I said, understanding he fear but unable to do anything about it. "It's a Maxocracy. James Patterson
understanding fields expanding
The frontiers of knowledge in the various fields of our subject are expanding at such a rate that, work as hard as one can, one finds oneself further and further away from an understanding of the whole.
understanding way trust-in-god
Don't lean on your own understanding. If your trust in God is limited by your understanding of His ways, you will always have a limited trust. James Macdonald
understanding duty humans
It is the duty of the human understanding to understand that there are things which it cannot understand... Soren Kierkegaard
understanding facts unexpected
The absurd . . . the fact that with God all things are possible. The absurd is not one of the factors which can be discriminated within the proper compass of the understanding: it is not identical with the improbable, the unexpected, the unforeseen.
understanding suffering abnormal
In some mysterious way, once one has gained an insight into human nature, that insight grows from day to day, and he to whom it has given to experience vicariously even one single form of earthly suffering acquires, by reason of this tragic lesson, an understanding of all its forms, even those most foreign to him, and apparently abnormal. Stefan Zweig
understanding speech conception
Understanding is nothing else than conception caused by speech. Thomas Hobbes
understanding may evolution
We may... have to relinquish the notion, explicit or implicit, that changes of paradigm carry scientists and those who learn from them closer and closer to the truth... The developmental process described in this essay has been a process of evolution from primitive beginnings-a process whose successive stages are characterized by an increasingly detailed and refined understanding of nature. But nothing that has been or will be said makes it a process of evolution toward anything. Thomas Kuhn
understanding crisis humans
The human crisis is always a crisis of understanding: what we genuinely understand we can do. Raymond Williams
understanding bottles tables
Baltimore is permissiveness. The pleasures of the flesh, the table, the bottle, and the purse are tolerated with a civilized understanding. Russell Baker
understanding trying actors
I'm an infant with Shakespeare; I'm kind of learning how to walk. I am trying to decipher the code, you know? I do my research. And I get a clear understanding of what the language is. It is a tremendous process I have to go through as I am sure all actors do, finding the gems hidden in his language. Ruben Santiago-Hudson
understanding important culture
The Bible was written in several languages, embraces many literary forms, and reflects cultures very different from our own. These are important considerations for properly understanding the Bible in its context. Troy Perry
understanding magic enemy
My understanding of magic is fairly straightforward. Hit enemies with a sword until they’re dead. If they rise again, hit them again. Repeat as necessary. It worked against Set. Rick Riordan
understanding territory ends
I roam around a lot in my territory, but what I learn at one end inflects and opens up my understanding at the other. Rebecca Solnit
understanding secret way
The secret of breaking rules in a way that works is understanding what the rules are in the first place. Rick Wakeman
understanding misunderstanding
Understanding is but the sum of misunderstandings. Haruki Murakami
understanding misunderstanding
understanding' is merely the sum total of our misunderstandings,
understanding gettysburg born
Gettysburg. . . . You cant understand it. You would have to be born there. William Faulkner
understanding atoms world
The future of the world, dependent as it is upon atomic energy, requires more understanding and knowledge about the atom. Willard Libby
understanding rewards
Understanding is the reward of faith. Saint Augustine
understanding listening use
As I understand life at different levels, I can use music to express what these levels feel like to me. Hopefully the listener can be transported to this understanding by listening to the music. Yanni
understanding littles busy
Great understanding is broad and unhurried; little understanding is cramped and busy Zhuangzi
understanding doe finest
Understanding that rests in what it does not understand is the finest.
understanding firsts looks
It is through our extended family that we first learn to compromise and come to an understanding that even if we don't always agree about things we can still love and look out for each other. Sara Sheridan
understanding neurosis someday
Perhaps someday everyone will have neurosis. Vincent Van Gogh
understanding prize
In life, understanding is the booby prize. Werner Erhard
understanding indifference mercy
I discover no kinship, no understanding, no mercy. I see only the overwhelming indifference of nature. Werner Herzog
understanding imaginative desirable
Ideals are an imaginative understanding of that which is desirable in that which is possible. Walter Lippmann
understanding roles way
The role of the musician is to go from concept to full execution. Put another way, it's to go from understanding the content of something to really learning how to communicate it and make sure it's well-received and lives in somebody else. Yo-Yo Ma
understanding progress steps
What lasting progress was ever made in social reformation, except when every step was insured by appeals to the understanding and the will? William Matthews