Quotes About Confusion

Is that what you want? To stagger around the afterlife blind and eye-fucked?

He felt oddly that he was being accused of something, but the feeling passed and was replaced with the peculiar honor one feels when trusted with a secret. Strange how honors and burdens are so often confused.

I hate them." "Pity them, Emmon," Tosh said, "because the world they live in is small, and when it gets bigger fast, they won't know what to do.

Whenever people are particularly muddled in their thinking they invent big words to cover their confusion.

Nous sommes à la veille d'un nouveau cycle d'ouragans et c'est ce qui obscurcit les consciences. La boussole s'affole à l'approche des orages magnétiques...

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I always hear myself saying , 'She's a beauty!' or 'He's a beauty!' or 'What a beauty!' but I never know what I'm talking about.

People, unprotected by their roles, become isolated in beauty and intellect and illness and confusion.

I don't understand beauty.

I sighed. I hated the maze of bureaucracy with a passion, but I've found the best way to deal with it is to smile and act stupid. That way, no one gets confused.

The trouble with our age is that it is all signpost and no destination.

It is astonishing how elements that seem insoluble become soluble when someone listens, how confusions that seem irremediable turn into relatively clear flowing streams when one is heard.

Even my agents say, 'We don't know what this business is anymore.'

By the time I was ready for college, I didn't know what I wanted to do. I think I secretly wanted a show business career, but I was suppressing it.

My husband changed jobs so fast that I simply never knew what business he was in.

Vision without an Action is Illusion. Action without a Vision is Confusion.

I bought a new Japanese car, I turned on the radio ... I don't understand a word they're saying.

You don't dig me, I don't understand what it is, I had my car reupholstered.

THE only reason that we don't open our hearts and minds to other people is that they trigger confusion in us that we don't feel brave enough or sane enough to deal with. To the degree that we look clearly and compassionately at ourselves, we feel confident and fearless about looking into someone else's eyes.

At the root of all the harm we cause is ignorance. Through meditation, that's what we begin to undo. If we see that we have no mindfulness, that we rarely refrain, that we have little well-being, that is not confusion, that's the beginning of clarity. As

Awakeness is found in our pleasure and our pain, our confusion and our wisdom. It's available in each moment of our weird, unfathomable, ordinary everyday lives.

The trick then is to practice gentleness and letting go. We can learn to meet whatever arises with curiosity and not make it such a big deal. Instead of struggling against the force of confusion, we could meet it and relax.

Realizing our wealth would end our bewilderment and confusion. But the only way to do that is to let things fall apart. And that's the very thing that we dread the most—the ultimate defeat. Yet letting things fall apart would actually let fresh air into this old, stale basement of a heart that we've got.

everything that occurs in our confused mind we can regard as the path.