Understanding goes deeper than knowledge. Knowledge is information; understanding is integration. Knowledge is facts; understanding is meaning.
Understanding takes time. It cannot be rushed. Information can be acquired quickly; understanding requires digestion, reflection, integration.
To understand another person is to know them from within—to see as they see, feel as they feel. This is rare and precious.
Understanding yourself is the hardest understanding. You are too close to see clearly. Yet self-understanding is the key that unlocks all other understanding.
Some things resist understanding. Before these, understanding bows to wonder.
Share your understanding. Teaching deepens your own understanding while spreading wisdom further.
Understanding changes you. You cannot truly understand something and remain unchanged by that understanding.
The deepest understanding is not intellectual but experiential. You can explain fire to one who has never felt heat, but they will not truly understand until they feel it.
And beyond all understanding lies the Mystery—that which can be approached but never fully grasped. True wisdom knows where understanding ends and awe begins.