Quotes About Clarity

but what they do without knowing it, do knowingly.

Truth itself is always simple. Complexity is due to man's ignorance.

Truth requires no prop to make it stand.

The bottom of a lake we cannot see, because its surface is covered with ripples. It is only possible for us to catch a glimpse of the bottom, when the ripples have subsided, and the water is calm.

He (God) reveals himself to the pure heart.

Freedom is to lose all illusions.

misery is caused by ignorance and nothing else.

Education is not filling the mind with a lot of facts. Perfecting the instrument and getting complete mastery of my own mind [is the ideal of education]. If I want to concentrate my mind upon a point, it goes there, and the moment I call, it is free [again]....

First hear, then understand, and then, leaving all distractions, shut your minds to outside influences, and devote yourselves to developing the truth within you. (I. 177) PATIENCE

Truth never dreams.

He who can become mad with an idea, he alone sees light.

they have no thought for anything else, never live a moment for any other idea, and thus the way is shortened for them. This is what is meant by concentration, intensifying the power of assimilation, thus shortening the time. Raja-Yoga is the science which teaches us how to gain the power of concentration.

Impurity is a mere superimposition under which your real nature has become hidden. But the real you is already perfect, already strong.

the very essence of education is concentration of mind, not the collecting of facts.

T ruth can be stated in a thousand different ways Yet each one can be true

When the Lord makes it clear you're to follow Him in this new direction, focus fully on Him and refuse to be distracted by comparisons with others.

When you can articulate your subject in a few sentences, in terms of action and character, you're ready to begin expanding the elements of structure and story. It may take several pages of free-association writing about your story before you can begin to grasp the essentials and reduce a complex story line to a simple sentence or two. Don't worry about it. Just keep doing it, and you will be able to articulate your story idea clearly and concisely.

Good teaching must be slow enough so that it is not confusing, and fast enough so that it is not boring.

When a man says "I know what I mean, but I can't express it," he generally does not know what he means—for there can be no knowledge without words; there can only be feelings.

In composing, as a general rule, run your pen through every other word you have written; you have no idea what vigor it will give your style.

Many in this world run after felicity like an absent man hunting for his hat, while all the time it is on his head or in his hand.

Something is wrong with a sentence when you can delete words and not sense the loss.

Outlining, in short, is not merely a way of organizing ideas but is also a way of getting ideas.

Truth has beauty, power and necessity.