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"Those who understand the problem are those who see it clearly."
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"I pray for sufficient wisdom to understand that wisdom apart from God is the stuff of opinion tainted by the rot of bias. And if I am somehow apt to confuse such rubbish with wisdom, I will think myself wise but find myself living in a landfill."
"It is not that I am very intelligent, but I try to understand with love."
"My dad finished chewing something and then put his fork down and looked at me. 'The longer I do my job,' he said. 'the more I realize that humans lack good mirrors. It's so hard for anyone to show us how we look, and so hard for us to show anyone how we feel.''That is really lovely,' my mom said. I liked that they liked each other. 'But isn't it also that on some fundamental level we find it difficult to understand that other people are human beings in the same way that we are? We idealize them as gods or dismiss them as animals.''True. Consciousness makes for poor windows, too. I don't think I'd ever thought about it quite that way."
"One of great arts of communication is the skill of listening to people."
"Through understanding, people will be able to see their similarities before differences."
"I wish that I could know you. Not your soul, but you. I've read about you; I've seen into your heart. I've rebuilt your soul, as best I could. But that isn't the same. It isn't knowing someone, is it? That's knowing about someone."
"Not everyone may not think the way you do."
"Love has no meaning without understanding."
"You may not appreciate the value of a key until you encounter the door it locks or unlocks."
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"A loan is the scissors of friendship.A man's own tongue may cut his throat.The cage has no value without the bird."
"Not to be greedy is, paradoxically, the highest form of looking after one's true interests."
"When the Higher Man does something worthy of admiration, it is an evidence of his Mastership, not the object of it."
"None should say: 'I can trust' or 'I cannot trust' until he is a master of the option, of trusting or not trusting."
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