#understanding

"Compassion is all inclusive. Compassion knows no boundaries. Compassion comes with awareness, and awareness breaks all narrow territories."

"You remember only what you want to remember. You know only what your heart allows you to know."

"There are those who know and those who don't know. And for every ten thousand who don't know there's only one who knows. That's the miracle of all time--the fact that these millions know so much but don't know this."

"It is my belief no man ever understands quite his own artful dodges to escape from the grim shadow of self-knowledge."

"Enlightenment is man's release from his self-incurred tutelage. Tutelage is man's inability to make use of his understanding without direction from another. Self-incurred is this tutelage when its cause lies not in lack of reason but in lack of resolution and courage to use it without direction from another. Sapere aude! 'Have courage to use your own reason!'- that is the motto of enlightenment."

"Acquire knowledge and enjoy its freedom or allow someone to fill you with theirs and live within the jurisdiction of theirs."

"The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn't being said. The art of reading between the lines is a life long quest of the wise."

"hindi dahil sa hindi mo naiintindihan ang isang bagay ay kasinungalingan na ito. at hindi lahat ng kaya mong intindihin ay katotohanan."

"To perceive is to suffer."

"She's a woman, you're a dude. You're not supposed to understand her. That's not what she's after.... She doesn't want you to understand her. She knows that's impossible. She just wants you to understand yourself. Everything else is negotiable."

"There is a reason that all things are as they are, and did you see with my eyes and know with my knowledge, you would perhaps better understand."

"Man masters nature not by force, but by understanding"

"I think a lot of psychopaths are just geniuses who drove so fast that they lost control."

"I kept reaching for my muses,my wandering muses, floatingon clouds filled with their passions.”(Muses of Wandering Passions, p. 64)"

"I always dream of a pen that would be a syringe."

"Sharing your kindness sparks understanding all around. Then like fireflies in the night, twinkling love surrounds you."

"Any man filled with empathy is capable of gaining valuable insights on the human condition through the suffering of others. You do not need to suffer to know suffering, but you need empathy first to identify and feel the suffering of others around you."

"I believe that we do not know anything for certain, but everything probably."

"People think that epilepsy is divine simply because they don't have any idea what causes epilepsy. But I believe that someday we will understand what causes epilepsy, and at that moment, we will cease to believe that it's divine. And so it is with everything in the universe"

"Who we were and who we are are four different people, and the me from now doesn't relate to the me from then, let alone to the you from now."