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1 " ...he asked, " Where are you today, right now?" Eagerly, I started talking about myself. However, I noticed that I was still being sidetracked from getting answers to my questions. Still, I told him about my distant and recent past and about my inexplicable depressions. He listened patiently and intently, as if he had all the time in the world, until I finished several hours later." Very well," he said. " But you still have not answered my question about where you are." " Yes I did, remember? I told you how I got to where I am today: by hard work." " Where are you?" " What do you mean, where am I?" " Where Are you?" he repeated softly." I'm here." " Where is here?" " In this office, in this gas station!" I was getting impatient with this game." Where is this gas station?" " In Berkeley?" " Where is Berkeley?" " In California?" " Where is California?" " In the United States?" " On a landmass, one of the continents in the Western Hemisphere. Socrates, I..." " Where are the continents?I sighed. " On the earth. Are we done yet?" " Where is the earth?" " In the solar system, third planet from the sun. The sun is a small star in the Milky Way galaxy, all right?" " Where is the Milky Way?" " Oh, brother, " I sighed impatiently, rolling my eyes. " In the universe." I sat back and crossed my arms with finality." And where," Socrates smiled, " is the universe?" " The universe is well, there are theories about how it's shaped..." " That's not what I asked. Where is it?" " I don't know - how can I answer that?" " That is the point. You cannot answer it, and you never will. There is no knowing about it. You are ignorant of where the universe is, and thus, where you are. In fact, you have no knowledge of where anything is or of What anything is or how is came to be. Life is a mystery." My ignorance is based on this understanding. Your understanding is based on ignorance. This is why I am a humorous fool, and you are a serious jackass. "
2 " But I still feel like I lost.We all have the potential to fall in love a thousand times in our lifetime. It's easy. The first girl I ever loved was someone I knew in the sixth grade. Her name was Missy; we talked about horses. The last girl I love will be someone I haven't even met yet. probably. They all count. But there are certain people you love who do something else; they define how you classify what love is supposed to feel like. These are the most important people in your life, and you'll meet maybe four or five of these people over the span of 80 years. But there's still one more tier to all this; there is always one person you love who becomes that definition. It usually happens retrospectively, but it always happens eventually. This is the person who unknowingly sets the template for what you will always love about other people, even if some of those lovable qualities are self-destructive and unreasonable. You will remember having conversations with this person that never actually happened. You will recall sexual trysts with this person that never technically occurred. This is because the individual who embodies your personal definition of love does not really exist. The person is real, and the feelings are real-but you create the context. And context is everything. The person who defines your understanding of love is not inherently different than anyone else, and they're often just the person you happen to meet first time you really, really want to love someone. But that person still wins. They win, and you lose. Because for the rest of your life, they will control how you feel about everyone else. "
― Chuck Klosterman , Killing Yourself to Live: 85% of a True Story
3 " Gratitude is only expressed and appreciated in proportion to your understanding of grace. "
― Mensah Oteh
4 " Your propensity to succeed in life is largely dependent on your understanding of the concept, your ability to discover your purpose, and your willingness to pursue and act on your purpose. "
5 " If your understanding of the divine made you kinder, more empathetic, and impelled you to express sympathy in concrete acts of loving-kindness, this was good theology. But if your notion of God made you unkind, belligerent, cruel, of self-righteous, or if it led you to kill in God's name, it was bad theology. "
6 " the eyes of your understanding will see through to get Great Success "
― Ikechukwu Joseph , Knowledge, Understanding, Wisdom: the tripartite force in the pursuit of Divine Access
7 " You become a real teacher when your understanding of the wants and needs of the student results in the student revealing her inner beauty. "
8 " All change comes from deepening your understanding of the salvation of Christ and living out the changes that understanding creates in your heart. "
― Timothy J. Keller
9 " Change your understanding and then even the negative side of the blessings will make you rejoice in God’s blessings "
10 " The use of imaginative fiction is to deepen your understanding of your world, and your fellow men, and your own feelings, and your destiny. "
― Ursula K. Le Guin , The Language of the Night: Essays on Fantasy and Science Fiction
11 " When will final Liberation [Moksha] occur?! It is when your knowledge, your understanding [darshan] becomes mistake-free. You have been stuck because of these mistakes. One says, ‘I am Chandulal. I am the husband of this woman. I am this boy’s father. I am eighty years old’. So many such mistakes are there! There is a series of such mistakes!! Mistake is indeed at the root of all that!!! ‘This’ is the only misunderstanding’ there is, and that is what has obstructed liberation. And through only one understanding there is liberation. "
― Dada Bhagwan
12 " This world is not at fault, the world is beautiful. If your understanding is wrong, what can the world do? "
13 " The eyes of your understanding must see through to Great Success "
― Ikechukwu Joseph
14 " The test of learning psychology is whether your understanding of situations you encounter has changed, not whether you have learned a new fact. "
― Daniel Kahneman , Thinking, Fast and Slow
15 " When you read a great book, you don’t escape from life, you plunge deeper into it. There may be a superficial escape – into different countries, mores, speech patterns – but what you are essentially doing is furthering your understanding of life’s subtleties, paradoxes, joys, pains and truths. Reading and life are not separate but symbiotic. "
― Julian Barnes , A Life with Books
16 " Daily Bible reading and mediation will deepen your understanding of life and God. "
― Lailah Gifty Akita , Think Great: Be Great! (Beautiful Quotes, #1)
17 " Learning the Holocaust is not meant to scare you but to deepen your understanding about the world. "
18 " learning the Holocaust meant to scare you but to deepen your understanding of the world. "
19 " No one should ever be allowed to make you feel unworthy of becoming wealthy. Your wealth lies mainly upon your understanding of your worth. "
20 " When you experience something, it actually widens your understanding about everything. "
