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Seek first to understand,

then to be understood.

- Stephen Covey

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You never really understand a person

until you consider things from his point of view.

- Harper Lee

Deal with the faults of others as gently as with your own.

- Chinese proverb

Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.

- Philo

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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Some people come into our lives and quickly go.

Some people stay for awhile,

and move our souls to dance.

They awaken us to a new understanding,

leave footprints on our hearts,

and we are never, ever the same.

- Flavia Weedn

In my own deepening understanding of myself

I find my capacity to serve others is deepened as well.

The better I am at self-care

the more genuinely nurturing of others I am able to be.

- Mary Anne Radmacher

Most people do not listen with the intent to understand;

they listen with the intent to reply.

- Stephen R. Covey

And as he spoke of understanding,

I looked up and saw the rainbow leap

with flames of many colors over me.

- Black Elk

Our opportunity is always to make the choice for Joy.

To see the world with new eyes - open eyes - loving eyes.

To choose compassion and understanding -

for ourselves, our family, our friends,

our community, for the whole world.

- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Stop! Breathe deeply.

Begin bringing peace to the outer world

by regaining your own inner peace.

Choose love, choose gratitude,

choose forgiveness, choose peace.

Begin with your own inner peace.

Then use that inner peace

as a platform from which

to approach the outer world

with perspective, understanding, and patience.

- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The loving energy that I radiate into this world

is a gift beyond my own understanding.

- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Your pain is the breaking of the shell

that encloses your understanding.

- Khalil Gibran

Peace cannot be kept by force;

it can only be achieved by understanding.

- Albert Einstein

The world is a better place because I am here;

the energy that I radiate into this world

is a gift beyond my own understanding.

Through ME, an all encompassing Love enters this world;

and I am profoundly grateful that the Powers of Light

have chosen ME to be a conduit for Infinite Love.

- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Beginning today, treat everyone you meet

as if they were going to be dead by midnight.

Extend to them all the care,

kindness and understanding you can muster,

and do with no thought of any reward.

Your life will never be the same again.

- Og Mandino

Everything that irritates us about others

can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.

- Carl Jung

Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding.

- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love,

of kindness, of understanding, of peace.

Money will come if we seek first the Kingdom of God -

the rest will be given.

- Mother Teresa

Peace cannot be achieved through violence,

it can only be attained through understanding.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

AN INSPIRED LIFE: I HAVE A CHOICE

My key to living an inspired life involves

Embracing my history,

Understanding the function of expectations

and gently learning to have none;

Recognizing the power of attentive and conscious choices.

In all circumstances I acknowledge this,

IN ALL THINGS AND ALL WAYS, I HAVE CHOICE.

My choice resides in my perspective.

While I certainly do not control climate

and markets and roadways and others,

I do control myself and my response

to all those circumstances. I do indeed.

- Mary Anne Radmacher

Understanding is a two-way street.

- Eleanor Roosevelt

Understanding does not cure evil,

but it is a definite help,

inasmuch as one can cope

with a comprehensible darkness.

- Carl Jung

The power of intuitive understanding

will protect you from harm until the end of your days.

- Lao Tzu

People understand me so poorly that they don't even understand

my complaint about them not understanding me.

- Soren Kierkegaard

They have come up with a perfect understanding.

He won't try to run her life,

and he won't try to run his, either.

- Anonymous

I offer gentle understanding to myself.

I position myself in love, not fear.

I look behind me with forgiveness.

I look forward with festive anticipation.

I embrace this holy moment and assert,

"Now. This moment is the moment to love,

the moment to serve, the moment to seize

the legacy instead of the small.

Now. Now I will live large, love boldly,

reach to the edges of my unfurled heart and fully enrolled hope.

- Mary Anne Radmacher

We should not pretend to understand

the world only by the intellect;

we apprehend it just as much by feeling.

Therefore, the judgment of the intellect is,

at best, only the half of truth, and must, if it be honest,

also come to an understanding of its inadequacy.

- Carl Jung

Your pain is the breaking of the shell

that encloses your understanding.

Much of your pain is self-chosen.

It is the bitter potion by which the

physician within you heals your sick self.

Therefore trust the physician, and drink

his remedy in silence and tranquility.

- Khalil Gibran

Shallow understanding from people of good will

is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding

from people of ill will.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

I do not want the peace that passeth understanding.

I want the understanding which bringeth peace.

- Helen Keller

We are composed of self-contradictions.

Each of us is loving in some moments - hateful in others.

Patient and calm sometimes - harried by urgency at others.

Understanding - and self-absorbed.

Reassuring - and sarcastic.

Generous - and greedy.

Trusting - and jealous.

Comforting - and snappish.

Original - and stuck in a rut.

Thankful - and needy.

Forgiving - and vengeful.

Nurturing ourself - and stuffing ourself with fast food.

Honoring our bodies - and overstressing.

Being Joyful - and Suffering.

- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.

- Leonardo da Vinci

The more one does and sees and feels, the more one is able to do,

and the more genuine may be one's appreciation

of fundamental things like home,

and love, and understanding companionship.

- Amelia Earhart

Let us CHOOSE to bless ALL those around us,

not with an EXPECTATION that they should be more evolved,

but with UNDERSTANDING, and with our INTENTION

for a magnificent future for all humans.

- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

We are all different - and we are all one.

Take time to understand, and to appreciate.

- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Taoists understand that both the mind and the body

are mere tools of the Spirit,

and that intention creates physical reality.

- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood.

Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.

- Marie Curie

Every decision you make - every decision -

is not a decision about what to do.

It's a decision about Who You Are.

When you see this, when you understand it, everything changes.

You begin to see life in a new way.

All events, occurrences, and situations

turn into opportunities to do what you came here to do.

- Neale Donald Walsch

God is not what you imagine

or what you think you understand.

If you understand you have failed.

- Saint Augustine

We have to stop and be humble enough to understand

that there is something called mystery.

- Paulo Coelho

Understand that the right to

choose your own path

is a sacred privilege.

Use it.

Dwell in possibility.

- Oprah Winfrey

O Divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek

to be consoled as to console;

to be understood as to understand;

to be loved as to love.

For it is in giving that we receive;

it is in pardoning that we are pardoned;

and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life.

- St. Francis of Assisi

It is necessary for us to understand that

the only Active Principle is Spirit.

- Ernest Holmes

If the sight of the blue skies fills you with joy,

if a blade of grass springing up in the fields has power to move you,

if the simple things in nature have a message you understand,

Rejoice, for your soul is alive.

- Eleanora Duse

We really have to understand the person we want to love.

If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love.

- Thich Nhat Hanh

Let's have faith that right makes might;

and in that faith let us, to the end,

dare to do our duty as we understand it.

- Abraham Lincoln

True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize

how little we understand about life,

ourselves, and the world around us.

- Socrates

If you understand, things are just as they are;

if you do not understand, things are just as they are.

- Zen Proverb

You do ill if you praise, but worse

if you censure, what you do not understand.

- Leonardo da Vinci

I am so clever that sometimes I don't

understand a single word of what I am saying.

- Oscar Wilde

Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers,

who can cut through argument, debate, and doubt

to offer a solution everybody can understand.

- Colin Powell

We should not pretend to understand the world

only by the intellect.

The judgment of the intellect

is only part of the truth.

- Carl Jung

Look deep into nature, and then

you will understand everything better.

- Albert Einstein

One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship

is to understand and to be understood.

- Lucius Annaeus Seneca

It is only when we truly know and understand

that we have a limited time on earth

and that we have no way of knowing when our time is up

that we will begin to live each day to the fullest,

as if it were the only one we had.

- Elizabeth Kubler-Ross

Better learn balance. Balance is key.

Balance good, karate good. Everything good.

Balance bad, better pack up, go home. Understand?

- Miyagi: character in the movie Karate Kid

To realize that you do not understand is a virtue;

Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.

- Lao Tzu

You remember lesson about balance?

Lesson not just karate only. Lesson for whole life.

Whole life have a balance. Everything be better. Understand?

- Miyagi: character in the movie Karate Kid

I hear and I forget.

I see and I remember.

I do and I understand.

- Chinese proverb

Conversations with God are very different

from the usual nature of prayer.

Prayers are commonly only in one direction -

the one praying speaks and hopes God is listening.

Prayers also tend to focus on asking

for specific things or outcomes one wants,

rather than seeking to better understand the mind of God.

- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

If you begin to understand what you are

without trying to change it,

then what you are undergoes a transformation.

- J. Krishnamurti

The most difficult phase of life

is not when no one understands you,

it is when you don't understand yourself.

- Anonymous

We shall see but a little way if

we require to understand what we see.

- Henry David Thoreau

Mystery creates wonder, and wonder is the basis

of man's desire to understand.

- Neil Armstrong

Patience is a form of wisdom.

It demonstrates that we understand and accept

the fact that sometimes things must unfold in their own time.

- Jon Kabat-Zinn

If one does not understand a person,

one tends to regard him as a fool.

- Carl Jung

I used to tell my husband that,

if he could make me "understand" something,

it would be clear to all the other people in the country.

- Eleanor Roosevelt

Be avid.

Create apart from perfection.

Risk failure.

Cover your words with sweat.

Run a little

Touch excruciatingly.

Laugh until you cry.

Dance with your eyes closed.

Care.

Understand you die a little in every moment.

Be Enlivened

- Mary Anne Radmacher

I can't understand why people

are frightened by new ideas.

I'm frightened of old ones.

- John Cage

The world is incomprehensible.

We won't ever understand it;

we won't ever unravel its secrets.

Thus we must treat the world as it is:

a sheer mystery.

- Carlos Castaneda

Not until we are lost

do we begin to understand ourselves.

- Henry David Thoreau

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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie