It is only with the heart that one can see rightly.
Interpretation
True understanding comes from the heart rather than just logic or reason.
This quote suggests that emotional intelligence and compassion are essential for perceiving the true essence of things. Rational thinking alone may not lead to a complete understanding of life and its experiences; it is through heartfelt insights that deeper truths and connections are recognized.
In practice
During a heartfelt speech about kindness and empathy in a community gathering.
Grown-ups love figures... When you tell them you've made a new friend they never ask you any questions about essential matters. They never say to you "What does his voice sound like? What games does he love best? Does he collect butterflies? " Instead they demand "How old is he? How much does he weigh? How much money does his father make? " Only from these figures do they think they have learned anything about him.
Attitude is a paintbrush. It colors everything!
Water, thou hast no taste, no color, no odor; canst not be defined, art relished while ever mysterious. Not necessary to life, but rather life itself, thou fillest us with a gratification that exceeds the delight of the senses.
In those days, I didn't understand anything. I should have judged her according to her actions, not her words. She perfumed my planet and lit up my life. I should never have run away! I ought to have realized the tenderness underlying her silly pretensions. Flowers are so contadictory! But I was too young to know how to love her.
When a mystery is too overpowering, one dare not disobey.
When the body sinks into death, the essence of man is revealed. Man is a knot, a web, a mesh into which relationships are tied. Only those relationships matter. The body is an old crock that nobody will miss. I have never known a man to think of himself when dying. Never.
We are what we are, because of the vibrations of thought which we pick up and register, through the stimuli of our daily environment.
But most it is presumption in us when the help of heaven we count the act of men.
I believe everyone should have a good death. You know, with your grandchildren around you, a bit of sobbing. Because after all, tears are appropriate on a death bed. And you say goodbye to your loved ones, making certain that one of them has been left behind to look after the shop.
Any man who has once proclaimed violence as his method is inevitably forced to take the lie as his principle.
The spells are made up. I have met people who assure me, very seriously, that they are trying to do them, and I can assure them, just as seriously, that they donβt work.
Death threatens our speech with futility because death is not just a biological event - it is a reality we fear may rob our living of any significance.
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