There are no short cuts to that totally encompassing experience. Salvation must grow out of understanding, total understanding can follow only from total experience, and experience must be won by the laborious discipline of shaping one's absolute attention.

True knowledge comes only through suffering

Real understanding does not come from what we learn in books; it comes from what we learn from love of nature, of music, of man. For only what is learned in that way is truly understood.

is — it is necessary to come first to an understanding concerning knowledge, which is looked upon as the instrument by which to take possession of the Absolute, or as the means through which to get a sight of it.

Only through suffering do we learn

Compassion is born from understanding suffering. We all should learn to embrace our own suffering, to listen to it deeply, and to have a deep look into its nature.

Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired and success achieved.

We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.

Just as feelings grow out of ignorance, intuition should grow out of knowledge.

Only if we understand, will we care. Only if we care, will we help. Only if we help, shall all be saved.

[W]e must come into a transformed knowing, an unknowing which comes not from ignorance but from knowledge.

According to Wertheimer, reaching an understanding involves many aspects of learners, such as their emotions, attitudes, and perceptions, as well as their intellects. In gaining insight into the solution to a problem, a student need not—in fact, should not—be logical. Rather, the student should cognitively arrange and rearrange the components of the problem until a solution based on understanding is reached. Exactly how this process is done will vary from student to student.

True love is born from understanding.

Life is a succesion of lessons which must be lived to be understood.