Quotes about Understanding

I realize that humans cannot bear very much reality. Most lives are a flight from selfhood. Most prefer the truths of the stable. You stick your heads into the stanchions and munch contentedly until you die. Others use you for their purposes. Not once do you live outside the stable to lift your head and be your own creature. Muad'Dib came to tell you about that. Without understanding his message, you cannot revere him!

One doesn't need telepathy to read your intentions.

It should be one of the tests," the old woman said. "Humans are almost always lonely.

attempt seeing Truth without knowing Falsehood. It is the attempt to see the Light without knowing Darkness. It cannot be.

To know a thing well, know its limits. Only when pushed beyond its tolerances will true nature be seen.

The proper teaching is recognized with ease. You can know it without fail because it awakens within you that sensation which tells you this is something you've always known." There

You have eyes, yet cannot see without light.

The oracle cannot chance upon what it cannot understand.

But he felt nothing except: Here's an important fact. It was one with all the other facts.

And Jessica, noting the words and manner, caught the deeper implications in the phrase, "the body's water.

Moneo's eyes went wide with a sudden questioning awareness. He had seen the action of many polarities—the thing made known by its opposite.

Love, that is what you understand, she said. Love. And that is all of it. [...] You have faith in life, Hwi said. I know that the courage of love can reside only in this faith.