Zwischenwelten: Oct 11, 2015

Sunday, October 11, 2015

"Everybody needs to be understood", quotes, Sherwin Nuland, Thich Naht Hanh

Julie Paschkis

https://www.brainpickings.org/2014/11/04/pablo-neruda-poet-of-the-people-book/

https://www.brainpickings.org/2015/03/31/how-to-love-thich-nhat-hanh/?utm_content=buffer41d94&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer

https://www.brainpickings.org/2015/01/02/sherwin-nuland-what-everybody-needs/

http://www.amazon.com/Pablo-Neruda-People-Monica-Brown/dp/080509198X/?tag=braipick-20

Thich Naht Hanh:

"If you pour a handful of salt into a cup of water, the water becomes undrinkable. But if you pour the salt into a river, people can continue to draw the water to cook, wash, and drink. The river is immense, and it has the capacity to receive, embrace, and transform. When our hearts are small, our understanding and compassion are limited, and we suffer. We can’t accept or tolerate others and their shortcomings, and we demand that they change. But when our hearts expand, these same things don’t make us suffer anymore. We have a lot of understanding and compassion and can embrace others. We accept others as they are, and then they have a chance to transform."

Sherwin Nuland:

"When you recognize that pain — and response to pain — is a universal thing, it helps explain so many things about others, just as it explains so much about yourself. It teaches you forbearance. It teaches you a moderation in your responses to other people’s behavior. It teaches you a sort of understanding. It essentially tells you what everybody needs. You know what everybody needs? You want to put it in a single word?

Everybody needs to be understood.

And out of that comes every form of love."