When we talk about understanding, surely it takes place only when the mind listens completely - the mind being your heart, your nerves, your ears- when you give your whole attention to it. Dec 20, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
All ideologies are idiotic, whether religious or political, for it is conceptual thinking, the conceptual word, which has so unfortunately divided man. Dec 20, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
A consistent thinker is a thoughtless person, because he conforms to a pattern; he repeats phrases and thinks in a groove. Dec 20, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
What is needed, rather than running away or controlling or suppressing or any other resistance, is understanding fear; that means, watch it, learn about it, come directly into contact with it. We are to learn about fear, not how to escape from it. Dec 20, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
If we can really understand the problem, the answer will come out of it, because the answer is not separate from the problem. Dec 20, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
So when you are listening to somebody, completely, attentively, then you are listening not only to the words, but also to the feeling of what is being conveyed, to the whole of it, not part of it. Dec 20, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
Civilization rests on the fact that most people do the right thing most of the time. Dec 20, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
Writing a novel is like making love, but it's also like having a tooth pulled. Pleasure and pain. Sometimes it's like making love while having a tooth pulled. Dec 20, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
I'm a human being and I fall in love and sometimes I don't have control of every situation. Dec 20, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
No one will ever win the battle of the sexes; there's too much fraternizing with the enemy. Dec 20, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty. Dec 20, 2024 - Fabian Biese>