“"What is the meaning of life?" This question has no answer except in the history of how it came to be asked. There is no answer because words have meaning, not life or persons or the universe itself. Our search for certainty rests in our attempts at understanding the history of all individual selves and all civilizations. Beyond that, there is only awe.” PersonsSelfUniverseIndividualUnderstandingAnswersCivilizationCertaintyMeaning Of LifeAweWhat Is The Meaning Of LifeWhat Is The Meaning Author:Julian Jaynes
“We do not first get all the answers and then live in the light of our understanding. We must rather plunge into life meeting what we have to meet and experiencing what we have to experience and in the light of living try to understand. if insight comes at all, it will not before, but only through and after experience.” IfsTryingFirstsLightUnderstandingAnswersMeetingsInsightPlunge Book:Tracks of a Fellow Struggler: Living and Growing Through Grief Source: Tracks of a Fellow Struggler: Living and Growing Through Grief
“Spiritual Balance is the obvious answer to the obsession that sometimes accompanies religious practice, occult practice, philosophical understandings - the assertion that one is right - that something that you're doing is better than something somebody else is doing, the way you're doing it is better than the way someone else is doing it.” WaySometimesSpiritualUnderstandingReligiousAnswersPracticeBuddhismBalancePhilosophicalObviousObsessionBuddhistEtiquetteAssertionOccultAccompanyReligious PracticesSpiritual Balance Author:Frederick Lenz
“The world of money, of numbers and stock markets and interest rates and credit cards, seems on the surface about as far as it could be from the world of spirituality, of seeking meaningful answers to the big questions of life. ... But these two worlds must flow in and out of each other, because it takes both money and spiritual understanding to sustain it. Truly speaking, what determines where our money with its awesome power will go, and what it will do for ourselves and others? If we listen, those answers come from the center of our being, from who we really are.” IfsWorldTwoBigsSeemsSpiritualSpiritualityUnderstandingInterestAnswersMoneyNumbersFlowRateDetermineSeekingCreditSurfaceMeaningfulCardsCredit CardInterest RateTwo WorldsBig Questions Author:Suze Orman
“Feminism is a way of understanding reality, not just a series of things to do. Feminism challenges our predilection for one right answer, one right God, one size fits all.” WayRealityUnderstandingChallengesAnswersFeminismFitSeriesSizeThings To DoRight AnswersOne Size Fits All Author:Phyllis Chesler
“I often reflect on what an extraordinary time (pun intended) it is to be alive here in the beginning of the twenty-first century. It took life billions of years to get to this point. It took humans thousands of years to piece together a meaningful understanding of our cosmos, our planet and ourselves. Think how fortunate we are to know this much. But think also of all that's yet to be discovered. Here's hoping the deep answers to the deep questions-from the nature of consciousness to the origin of life-will be found in not too much more time.” ThinkingKnowsYearsFirstsHumansTogetherFoundUnderstandingAnswersConsciousnessToo MuchPiecesAliveCenturyPlanetsTwentiesExtraordinaryBillionsMeaningfulFortunateCosmosMore TimeOur PlanetPunOrigin Of Life Book:Undeniable: Evolution and the Science of Creation Source: Undeniable: Evolution and the Science of Creation
“Care about understanding and before you know it, in just a few decades, you'll have a system of thinking that gives you answers whenever you ask.” ThinkingKnowsGivingCareAsksUnderstandingAnswersEducationDecades Author:Richard Bach
“There is a total incompatibility between the joy of reading, a vagabond experience, and the experience of reading in order to answer questions, and explain what you understood.” JoyOrderReadingUnderstandingAnswersUnderstoodExperienceTheologianExplainingJoy Of ReadingVagabondsIncompatibility Author:Rubem Alves
“Philosophical questions are not by their nature insoluble. They are, indeed, radically different from scientific questions, because they concern the implications and other interrelations of ideas, not the order of physical events; their answers are interpretations instead of factual reports, and their function is to increase not our knowledge of nature, but our understanding of what we know.” KnowsIdeasDifferentScienceOrderUnderstandingAnswersEventsConcernFunctionIncreasePhilosophicalReportsInterpretationImplicationsFactualPhilosophical Questions Author:Susanne Katherina Langer
“Freudian psychoanalytical theory is a mythology that answers pretty well to Levi-Strauss's descriptions. It brings some kind of order into incoherence; it, too, hangs together, makes sense, leaves no loose ends, and is never (but never) at a loss for explanation. In a state of bewilderment it may therefore bring comfort and relief.... give its subject a new and deeper understanding of his own condition and of the nature of his relationship to his fellow men. A mythical structure will be built up around him which makes sense and is believable-in, regardless of whether or not it is true.” MenGivingWellsKindMayEndsStatesTogetherOrderUnderstandingNatureLossAnswersRelationshipConditionsSubjectsTheoryComfortBuiltFellowsStructureDeeperMythMythologyMake SenseExplanationReliefDescriptionFellow ManPsychoanalysisBelievableBewildermentDeeper UnderstandingIncoherenceLoose EndsBelievabilityLevi Strauss Author:Peter Medawar
“The only answer to fear is more understanding. And there is no understanding if there is no effort to look more deeply to see what is there in our heart and in the heart of the other person.” IfsLooksHeartPersonsUnderstandingAnswersEffort Author:Nhat Hanh
“There are two tests that we [writers] have for all of our writing: So What? and Who Cares? There is an answer to both. The answer to Who Cares is that a reader cares, if the writing is good. The answer to So What is that these ideas give us completely new understanding, change our sense of who we [people] are and why we're here [on this planet].” PeopleIfsGivingWritingTwoIdeasCareUnderstandingAnswersPlanetsReaderTestsWho Cares Author:Richard Bach
“I try to keep my characters raising more questions than giving answers. I don't want to leave too much on the table. I want you to have your connection and your secret understanding of the character.” WantGivingTryingCharacterUnderstandingAnswersSecretToo MuchConnectionsTablesI Want You Author:Nicolas Cage
“You cannot hold God hostage (to your questions). He doesn’t owe you an answer. If you want the peace that passes understanding, you’re going to have to give up your right to understanding. It’s called trust.” IfsWantGivingUnderstandingAnswersGiving UpHostageUnderstanding You Author:Bill Johnson
“While it may come as a profound surprise to those of us who are in the throes of an emotional or life crisis, the fact remains that the answer to virtually all of our problems resides within us already. It exist in the form of a vast reservoir of free-flowing energy that, when channeled to our muscles, can give us great strength and, when channeled to our brain, can give us great insight and understanding.” GivingMayFactsProblemFormEnergyUnderstandingAnswersBrainEmotionalCrisisRemainsSurpriseProfoundInsightMusclesReservoirsLife Crisis Author:Bruce Lee
“The answer is navigation, manipulation, and implementation of more sophisticated intelligence. The idea that a robot will become more aware of its environment, that telling it to "go to the kitchen" means something - navigation and understanding of the environment is a robot problem. Those are the technological frontiers of the robotics industry.” MeanIdeasProblemUnderstandingAnswersEnvironmentIndustryKitchenManipulationSophisticatedTechnologicalRobotsFrontiersRoboticsImplementationNavigation Author:Colin Angle