Did you know you can turn any of the short quotes on our site into an e-card?
Simply locate the quote you'd like to send, and if it fits on our card, you'll see an option for Send as greeting on the left side of the quote.
Or, if you'd like a more classic Greeting card, you can visit our Gaia Greeting Gallery.
Instead of looking at one's dreams to understand one's life, it may make more sense to look at one's life to understand one's dreams.
I believe talent is like electricity. We don't understand electricity. We use it.
Rid of craving and without clinging, an expert in the study of texts, and understanding the right sequence of the words, he may indeed be called "In his last body", "Great in wisdom" and a "Great man."
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.
[Variant translation: We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect. The judgement of the intellect is only part of the truth.]
A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five.
You do not really understand something unless you can explain it to your grandmother.
"Run your fingers through my soul. For once, just once, feel exactly what I feel, believe what I believe, perceive as I perceive, look, experience, examine, and for once, just once, understand."
You can’t understand, change, or improve something if you don’t even see it.
Start with looking. Open! Open! Open!
Then tilt your head and look again. Deeper…
Look from every angle. Don’t let one view satisfy your curiosity.
There is a beautiful wisdom found in seeing from a universal point of view.
Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.
Some things weren't designed to understand.
All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.
The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.
Between the laws of attraction and repulsion is the force that moves everything...I must be able to speak for you ...and you must be able to speak for me, if we are to understand love.
Life is an unfoldment, and the further we travel the more truth we can comprehend. To understand the things that are at our door is the best preparation for understanding those that lie beyond.
Spend time to understand your own multitasking capacity, and your projects and goals.
The more things you are convinced about the truth, the harder it gets to understand change.
And thus nature itself.
Tolerance is the positive and cordial effort to understand another's beliefs, practices and habits without necessarily sharing or accepting them.
Tolerance is the positive and cordial effort to understand another's beliefs, practices and habits without necessarily sharing or accepting them.
When you try to understand everything, you will not understand anything.
The best way is to understand yourself, and then you will understand everything.
Life is difficult. This is a great truth, one of the greatest truths. It is a great truth because once we truly see this truth, we transcend it. Once we truly know that life is difficult - once we truly understand and accept it - then life is no longer difficult. Because once it is accepted, the fact that life is difficult no longer matters.
Help
Sign In
