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What else is love but understanding…

15 Feb , 2011  

What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives, acts, and experiences otherwise than we do?? Great short quote and quotation by: Friedrich Nietzsche , German philosopher (1844 – 1900)

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Jiddu Krishnamurti

What is needed, rather than running…

15 Feb , 2011  

What is needed, rather than running away or controlling or suppressing or any other resistance, is understanding fear; that means, watch it, learn about it, come directly into contact with it. We are to learn about fear, not how to escape from it. Great short quote and quotation by: Jiddu Krishnamurti ,

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Tom Robbins

When she was a small girl, Amanda h…

15 Feb , 2011  

When she was a small girl, Amanda hid a ticking clock in an old, rotten tree trunk. It drove woodpeckers crazy. Ignoring tasty bugs all around them, they just about beat their brains out trying to get at the clock. Years later, Amanda used the woodpecker experiment as a model for understanding capitalism, Communism, Christianity, […]

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J. Krishnamutri

When we talk about understanding, s…

15 Feb , 2011  

When we talk about understanding, surely it takes place only when the mind listens completely– the mind being your heart, your nerves, your ears- when you give your whole attention to it. Great short quote and quotation by: J. Krishnamutri ,

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Real Live Preacher, Real Live Preacher weblog, 07-08-04

When you really trust someone, you …

15 Feb , 2011  

When you really trust someone, you have to be okay with not understanding some things. Great short quote and quotation by: Real Live Preacher, Real Live Preacher weblog, 07-08-04 , Anonymous author of RealLivePreacher.com

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Bible

Wisdom is the principal thing, ther…

15 Feb , 2011  

Wisdom is the principal thing, therefore get wisdom; and with all thy getting, get understanding. Great short quote and quotation by: Bible, Proverbs, 4:7 ,

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George Gurdjieff

Without self knowledge, without und…

15 Feb , 2011  

Without self knowledge, without understanding the working and functions of his machine, man cannot be free, he cannot govern himself and he will always remain a slave. Great short quote and quotation by: George Gurdjieff ,

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Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet

Your pain is the breaking of the sh…

27 Apr , 2010  

Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. Great short quote and quotation by: Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet , Lebanese artist & poet in US (1883 – 1931)

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