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"Understanding and knowledge are completely different sensations in the realm of Truth than they are in the realm of society."
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"God's Jewish nation did not understand his divine priority for the kingdom."

"We have reduced the understanding of prayers to incantations."

"This deliberate focus and sensitivity allow you to "put yourself in another person's shoes and walk around a while" to better understand where they are coming from and what they are all about."

"Understanding the value of time is understanding the true essence of life."

"It is called understanding when one accepts other's talks of wisdom; but, where is the wisdom filled talk in this era?"

"It's frustrating when our best efforts to help people fail. But if we could see life through their weary eyes and experience their trials with the same frayed emotions, we might understand why."

"If God spoke from Heaven, people will not understand Him, that is why Jesus came to earth."

"The reason for the absence of success is not because of lack of money but because of theabsence of the understanding of the principles of success."

"When we understand people; when we understand situations;when we understand what matters;when we understand the why's, the what's and the how's;when we understand the trigger of actions, we least inflict pain on ourselves and unto others."

"We had better share our bewilderments. By hiding them from each other we should not hide them from ourselves."
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"The stupidest man I ever met had a favourite saying. It was: 'What do you think I am, stupid, or something?"


"If a pot can multiply. One day Nasrudin lent his cooking pots to a neighbour, who was giving a feast. The neighbour returned them, together with one extra one " a very tiny pot. 'What is this?' asked Nasrudin. 'According to law, I have given you the offspring of your property which was born when the pots were in my care,' said the joker. Shortly afterwards Nasrudin borrowed his neighbour's pots, but did not return them. The man came round to get them back. 'Alas!' said Nasrudin, 'they are dead. We have established, have we not, that pots are mortal?'."


"The great poet Hafiz says that you should dye your prayer-carpet with wine if your teacher tells you to do so."


"People who have fallacious objectives are like the barren soil. The flowers grow from soil which is composed of the right objectives."


"To copy a virtue in another is more copying than it is virtue. Try to learn what that virtue is based upon."
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