Understanding Quotes

"The pendulum of the mind alternates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong" "I don't have to tell you that reality is out there" "The further one goes, the less one knows" "To understand the actual world as it is, not as we should wish it to be, is the beginning of wisdom." "The truth must be touched in the way snakes are touched, with a stick." "You can't comfort the afflicted with afflicting the comfortable " "Discipline must come through liberty. Here is a great principle which is difficult for followers of man-made disciplines to understand." "The study of love and its utilization will lead us to the source from which it springs, The Child." "A myth is an image in terms of which we try to make sense of the world." "Omnipotence is not knowing how everything is done; it's just doing it." "Where there is truth, there is also light, but don't confuse light with the flash." "An enemy who sees the error of his ways ceases to be an enemy" "The impatient idealist says: Give me a place to stand and I shall move the earth. But such a place does not exist. We all have to stand on the earth itself and go with her at her pace" "Chaos is a name for any order that produces confusion in our minds" "Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness"