“Art is the closest we can come to understanding how a stranger really feels.”

“In relationships, we deeply crave to be with someone who understands how we feel, but we don't even take the time to understand how we feel.”

Teal Swan (1984) American spiritual teacher

“Fear comes from a lack of understanding how powerful you really are.”

Steve Maraboli (1975)

“If we can really understand the problem, the answer will come out of it, because the answer is not separate from the problem.”

Jiddu Krishnamurti (1895–1986) Indian spiritual philosopher

“Moving stranger,
Does it really matter,
As long as you're not afraid to feel?”

Kate Bush (1958) British recording artist; singer, songwriter, musician and record producer

“To be desired is perhaps the closest anybody in this life can reach to feeling immortal.”

John Berger (1926–2017) British painter, writer and art critic

“Maybe those inclined towards the arts are so spiritually retarded to a degree that we must go through the whole process of cathartic expression just to discover how we really feel.”

Mark Heard (1951–1992) American musician and record producer

“Dear premies, I guess this is the last night of this festival, of this Guru Puja and really, what have we understood? Really, in one way, what can we understand? What is there to understand? And it's just like sometimes you just feel, Understand? When I use the word understand … But there is nothing to understand! And if there is something to understand, there is only one thing to understand, and that is to surrender!”

Prem Rawat (1957) controversial spiritual leader

“You have to understand what you’re missing before you can really feel a loss.”

Jodi Picoult book Sing You Home

“How easy it was to lie to strangers, to create with strangers the versions of our lives we imagined.”

Chi­ma­man­da Ngo­zi Adi­chie book Americanah