With great understanding, we see the way out of our bondage. We discover the lightness and compassion necessary to love someone else
If your love is true love, it will benefit not only humans, but also animals, plants, and minerals. When you love one person, itβs an opportunity for you to love everyone, all beings. Then you are going in a good direction, and that is true love. But if you love someone and you get caught up in suffering and attachment, then you get cut off from others. Thatβs not true love.
If you and your partner both have a deep aspiration, then not only will you support each otherβs happiness, you will bring more happiness to the world in ways that you, by yourself, cannot.
True love gives us a lot of space. Because you are connected spiritually and emotionally as well as physically, you do not need to always be in the same place or doing the same thing. You do not worry if your beloved is over here today and you are over there.
Beauty and goodness are there in each of us. A true spiritual partner is one who encourages you to look deep inside yourself for the beauty and love youβve been seeking. A true teacher is someone who helps you discover the teacher in yourself.
Your partner needs your attention and your watering of his or her positive seeds. Without that attention, your relationship will wither.
Even with a lot of goodwill, we can still make the other person very unhappy. Mindfulness is the paintbrush in the art of happiness. When we are mindful, we are more artful and happiness blooms
Darling, I know there is a seed of anger in you. I know that every time I water that seed, you suffer and you make me suffer too. So I make a vow to refrain from watering the seed of anger in you. I also promise not to water the seed of anger in me. Can you make the same commitment? In our daily lives, letβs not read, view, or consume anything that waters the seeds of anger and violence in us. You know that the seed of anger in me is quite big enough. Every time you do or say something that waters it, I suffer and I make you suffer. So letβs not water these seeds in each other.
It does not take more than one thoughtless phrase to hurt someone.
We need not know the how and the why to profit from knowing the that.
Not knowing how venom kills does not take away the usefulness of knowing that it does.
Learning is easy; misunderstanding makes it complex!
Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will.
Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding.
Most quarrels amplify a misunderstanding.
'Basic Black with Pearls', upon its publication in 1980, was greeted with a mix of praise and misunderstanding. Critics sensed its daring and applauded its formal inventiveness, but those qualities also kept people at bay.
In human intercourse the tragedy begins, not when there is misunderstanding about words, but when silence is not understood.
The word 'Christianity' is already a misunderstanding - in reality there has been only one Christian, and he died on the Cross.
There's a great deal of suspicion and misunderstanding about IT among practicing doctors. One hears things like, 'I don't want to be turned into a data entry clerk, and I don't want some machine between me and my patients.'
A mistake is to commit a misunderstanding.