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You know, if we understand one question rightly, all questions are answered. But we don't know how to ask the right question. To ask the right question demands a great deal of intelligence and sensitivity. Here is a question, a fundamental question: is life a torture? It is, as it is; and man has lived in this torture centuries upon centuries, from ancient history to the present day, in agony, in despair, in sorrow; and he doesn't find a way out of it. Therefore he invents gods, churches, all the rituals, and all that nonsense, or he escapes in different ways. What we are trying to do, during all these discussions and talks here, is to see if we cannot radically bring about a transformation of the mind, not accept things as they are, nor revolt against them. Revolt doesn't answer a thing. You must understand it, go into it, examine it, give your heart and your mind, with everything that you have, to find out a way of living differently. That depends on you, and not on someone else, because in this there is no teacher, no pupil; there is no leader; there is no guru; there is no Master, no Saviour. You yourself are the teacher and the pupil; you are the Master; you are the guru; you are the leader; you are everything. And to understand is to transform what is.
 
There would be no society if living together depended upon understanding each other.
 
The older I grow, the more I realize how terribly difficult it is for people to understand each other, and I think that what misleads one is the fact that they all look so much like each other. If some people looked like elephants and others like cats, or fish, one wouldn’t expect them to understand each other and things would look much more like what they really are.
 
I guess I should warn you, if I turn out to be particularly clear, you've propbably misunderstood what I've said.
 
It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
 
You can never understand love, unless you fall in love. This is valid for eve ry living system. You cannot attempt to understand something of which you are not a part.
 
One age misunderstands another; and a petty age misunderstands all the others in its own nasty way.
 
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.
 
We may be in the Universe as dogs and cats are in our libraries, seeing the books and hearing the conversation, but having no inkling of the meaning of it all.
 
If you aren't just brought up in your tribe but interact with other people either directly or vicariously, through journalism and literature, you see what life is like from other points of view and are less likely to demonize them or dehumanize others and more likely to empathize with them.
 
Anything that makes it easier to imagine trading places with someone else increases your moral consideration for that other person.
 
Telling someone something he does not understand is pointless, even if you add that he will not be able to understand it.
 
To understand the whole operation of one’s own mind requires a great deal of insight, a great deal of inquiry without condemnation.
 
No human being can really understand another, and no one can arrange another's happiness.
 
Only that in you which is me can hear what I'm saying.
 
Always remember that it is impossible to speak in such a way that you cannot be misunderstood: there will always be some who misunderstand you.
 
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