"He who knows others is wise. He who knows himself is enlightened."
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Understanding
Anticipate
"Anticipate the difficult by managing the easy."
Freedom from the Desire
"Freedom from the desire for an answer is essential to the understanding of a problem."
Authority
"All authority of any kind, especially in the field of thought and understanding, is the most destructive, evil thing. Leaders destroy the followers and followers destroy the leaders. You have to be your own teacher and your own disciple. You have to question...
The Strength of Patience and Love
"In our relationship with children and young people, we are not dealing with mechanical devices that can be quickly repaired, but with living beings who are impressionable, volatile, sensitive, afraid, affectionate; and to deal with them we have to have great...
The Whole of Life
"You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing and dance, and write poems and suffer and understand, for all that is life."
Understand What You Are
"If you begin to understand what you are without trying to change it, then what you are undergoes a transformation."
Understanding Fear
"What is needed, rather than running away or controlling or suppressing or any other resistance, is understanding fear; that means, watch it, learn about it, come directly into contact with it. We are to learn about fear, not how to escape from it."
Understanding the Problem
"If we can really understand the problem, the answer will come out of it, because the answer is not separate from the problem."
Understanding
"When we talk about understanding, surely it takes place only when the mind listens completely - the mind being your heart, your nerves, your ears - when you give your whole attention to it."