understanding

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He was pleased with everything that he did and learned and the days and months passed quickly. But he learned more from the river than Vasudeva could teach him. He learned from it continually. Above all, he learned from it how to listen, to listen with a still heart, with a waiting, open soul, without passion, without desire, without judgment, without opinions.

So it is our request that you try to study Bhagavad-gīt_ as it is. Don't try to distort it by your so-called education. Try to understand K_ṣ_a as He is saying. Then you will be benefited. Your life will be successful.

There are times when a feeling of expectancy comes to me, as if something is there, beneath the surface of my understanding, waiting for me to grasp it. It is the same tantalizing sensation when you almost remember a name, but don't quite reach it. I can feel it when I think of human beings, of the hints of evolution suggested by the removal of wisdom teeth, the narrowing of the jaw no longer needed to chew such roughage as it was accustomed to; the gradual disappearance of hair from the human body; the adjustment of the human eye to the fine print, the swift, colored motion of the twentieth century. The feeling comes, vague and nebulous, when I consider the prolonged adolesence of our species; the rites of birth, marriage and death; all the primitive, barbaric ceremonies streamlined to modern times. Almost, I think, the unreasoning, bestial purity was best. Oh, something is there, waiting for me. Perhaps someday the revelation will burst in upon me and I will see the other side of this monumental grotesque joke. And then I'll laugh. And then I'll know what life is.

People relates the process of evolution, as growth and success in the material world, rather in reality, the process of evolution, is all about, how you perceive life, with your understanding, in the present moment.

All I know is I make sense to me- it's other people who seem complicated.

If a man realizes who he is, he understands that if he must, he can start from the beginning and achieve success again

Is your division of Understanding into Greater and Lesser common to all Sufis? Nothing which is put into words is common to all Sufis.

Who is the __other_ of __nowledge (Gnan)_? It is __nderstanding_ (samaj). Where can __nderstanding_ be acquired from? It is acquired from Gnani Purush (The Enlightened one).

Empathy is the door to wisdom.

It was easier to know it than to explain why I knew it.

Librarians hoard the wisdom of humanity. They are the keepers of all knowledge, the guardians at the temples of understanding and devoted protectors of the sanctuary in the midst of uneducated anarchy.

A person may learn things all their life, but never gain knowledge of truth.

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.

By thinking of things you could understand them.

The truth is precious commodity, not everyone will possess her.

...Data itself... was tolerable. It was the constant nerve-web-expanding pain of context that would kill him.

the answers you look for are within you and around you