“Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.”

—Henry David Thoreau

“No matter how clear you think your perspective on life is - the person next to you has a different one. Because... everything is relative.”

—Dan Goldberg

“Because I am a woman who understands, I am asked to understand everything, to accept everything. I am a human being, not a goddess. ”

—Anaïs Nin, from The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 1: 1931-1934

“What you meet in another being is the projection of your own level of evolution.”

—Ram Dass

“I don’t like the idea of “understanding” a film. I don’t believe that rational understanding is an essential element in the reception of any work of art. Either a film has something to say to you or it hasn’t. If you are moved by it, you don’t need it explained to you. If not, no explanation can make you moved by it.”

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Federico Fellini

(Probably the most personally important quote I’ll ever post on here from the most personally important director to have ever lived.)

“Expecting intellectual understanding of Buddhist texts alone to solve our problems is like a sick person hoping to cure his or her illness through merely reading medical instructions without actually taking the medicine. As Buddhist Master Shantideva says: "We need to put Buddha’s teachings, the Dharma, into practice because nothing can be accomplished just by reading words. A sick man will never be cured of his illness through merely reading medical instructions!”

—Geshe Kelsang Gyatso - “Modern Buddhism”

“Strive for understanding over being understood.”

—Conor Oberst

“Not all hummingbirds must become hallucinations. Seeing is holding the sky without ever touching it.”

—Rane Arroyo, The Secret Poems: Poem Too Big For A Sonnet

“You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view... Until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it.”

—Harper Lee - To Kill a Mockingbird

“Everyone discusses my art and pretends to understand, as if it were necessary to understand, when it is simply necessary to love.”

—Claude Monet
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