Understanding Quotes - Page 104

There is no possibility of relaxation if you have a mind and an ego; the ego is the center of the mind. You will be tense, you will remain tense. How to relax? Is there any way to relax? There is no way unless understanding is there. If you understand the nature of the world, the nature of the very existence, then who are you to worry, and why be in a worried state continuously?

Virtue is virtue only when it is spontaneous; virtue is virtue only when it is natural, unpractised - when it comes out of your vision, out of your awareness, out of your understanding.

Try to relax, and you will find out that you feel more tense than ever. Try harder and you will feel more tense and more tense. Relaxation is not a consequence, is not a result of some activity; it is the glow of understanding. This is the first thing I would like to relate to you: life is purposeless. It is very hard to accept it. And why is it so hard to accept that life is purposeless? It is hard because without purpose the ego cannot exist. It is hard to conceive that life has no goal because without any goal being there, there is no point in having a mind, in having an ego.

In our family we have always had, and still have, this understanding: the problem of each member of the family is everybody's problem.

Part of creating is understanding that there is always more to do; nothing is ever completely finished.

I feel anger and I feel understanding. It's a difficult position to be in.

India-Seychelles relations have been characterized by close friendship, understanding and cooperation.

Human self-understanding changes with time, and so also human consciousness deepens.

For it was not so much that by means of words I came to a complete understanding of things, as that from things I somehow had an experience which enabled me to follow the meaning of words.

The human animal needs a freedom seldom mentioned, freedom from intrusion. He needs a little privacy as much as he wants understanding or vitamins or exercise or praise.

Every role affords me something different in the way of understanding, and that's really why you take these roles, not to show that thing that people talk about of showing what you can do - that has nothing to do with anything.

I think the real understanding comes when we recognize our humanity in each other. That's not just between blacks and whites. That's between all religions as well.

To watch King Lear is to approach the recognition that there is indeed no meaning in life, and that there are limits to human understanding.

Understanding future warfare is the most important responsibility of those who must defend a nation from future enemies!

I do love fish, and I thought it was healthy without understanding the high mercury levels that fish like tuna, swordfish and halibut can contain.

The key to understanding the future is one word: sustainability.

The birds did not understand a single word of what he was saying, but that made no matter, for they put their heads on one side, and looked wise, which is quite as good as understanding a thing, and very much easier.

We must start human society from scratch; as Francis Bacon said, we must recreate human understanding.

Some things were beyond understanding.

With understanding, those we love will certainly flower.

Words can travel thousands of miles. May my words create mutual understanding and love. May they be as beautiful as gems, as lovely as flowers.

In each of us is a seed of understanding. The seed is God.

Criminals thrive on society's understanding.

The world is growing gentle, But few know what she owes To the understanding lily And the judgment of the rose.

A strict master will not have understanding sons.