Johnny Cash Quotes

Not all those who know their minds know their hearts as well.

The more you can be self-aware and honest about yourself, the more you can cultivate that in other people.

I've always been pretty in touch with what I'm feeling.

I respect anybody that is very in tune with their feelings.

To me a man of meditation is bound to be immensely loving.

When we take time to quiet ourselves, we can all sense that our life could be lived with greater compassion and greater weakness.

Only in an open, nonjudgmental space can we acknowledge what we are feeling. Only in an open space where we're not all caught up in our own version of reality can we see and hear and feel who others really are, which allows us to be with them and communicate with them properly.

Love means the art of being with others. Meditation means the art of being with yourself. Both are two aspects of the same coin.

all the advice you ever gave your partner is for you to hear

People are always trying to tell you how they feel. Some of them say it outright, and some of them, they tell you with their actions. And you have to listen. I don't know what will happen with your lady friend. I think she's a nice person, and I hope you get what you want. But do me a favor: Listen, and don't ignore what you hear.

Since Socrates and Plato first speculated on the nature of the human mind, serious thinkers through the ages - from Aristotle to Descartes, from Aeschylus to Strindberg and Ingmar Bergman - have thought it wise to understand oneself and one's behavior.

I drive my wife crazy. I'm hypersensitive, which she will often point out. She'll say something, and I find the way she said it hurtful. And she'll look at me like I'm an idiot and say, 'What are you talking about?' My radar is probably tuned way too sensitively. I wouldn't want to change it because I do think it's an important part of what I do.

A spiritual person is also in touch with his or her own reality, feelings and thoughts, and the reality of the people around him or her, not projecting on them.

When you practice Buddhism, you have to always self-reflect, and you can't avoid your problems. That makes me understand human beings better. I feel that the more I do that in my own life, the more I can see how to play a character.

A man admires a woman not for what she says, but what she listens to.

If you don't understand yourself you don't understand anybody else.

Everyone can teach themselves to cry... but sometimes you have just got to see that mental movie going on. You've got to be feeling it.

If they would teach us from the time we're little to meditate and get in touch with all that our souls know, we wouldn't fight so much.

There's something very touching to me about someone almost communicating to themselves in some way - trying to come to some deeper understanding of yourself and having compassion for yourself.

My wife says I don't listen when she talks. But when people talk, I'm in my own world. I think - always thinking.

I always call myself an emotionalist. I feel.

Americans are notoriously ill-equipped for self-reflection. We're usually a very boisterous, outward-moving bunch of people, but we don't understand that much about ourselves or how other people perceive us.

I think it makes you a good listener about other people's relationships when you haven't got that much to say about your own.

I'm very big on feeling.

I see myself as a professional feeler.