Quotes about Understanding

To allow ourselves to be truly in touch with where we already are, no matter where that is, we have got to pause in our experience long enough to let the present moment sink in; long enough to actually feel the present moment, to see it in its fullness, to hold it in awareness and thereby come to know and understand it better.

It is not that mindfulness is the "answer" to all life's problems. Rather, it is that all life's problems can be seen more clearly through the lens of a clear mind.

Acceptance of the present moment has nothing to do with resignation in the face of what is happening. It simply means a clear acknowledgment that what is happening is happening. Acceptance doesn't tell you what to do. What happens next, what you choose to do, that has to come out of your understanding of this moment.

Faith is the final triumph over incongruity the final assertion of the meaningfulness of existence.

People are generally irrational, unreasonable and selfish. They deserve to be loved, anyway.

We never know the love of the parent for the child till we become parents.

The openness of our hearts and minds can be measured by how wide we draw the circle of what we call family.

Everyone in my family has seen me cry before.

You can make more friends in two months by becoming more interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you.

Patience with family members and others who are close to us is vital for us to have happy homes.

A child's cry touches a father's heart.

I fear we are in danger of forgetting that to HAVE the Bible is one thing, and to READ it quite another.