Quotes About Clarity

I said she's not thick, kid. I didn't say she was Professor fucking Moriarty.

It comes to him with the clarity of a sound, a neat small chink like metal hitting stone.

figure out what to do here.

You asked me what I wanted. I spent a lot of time asking myself the same thing. By a year or two ago, I had come to the conclusion that I truly wanted only two things in this world: the company of my friends, and the opportunity for unfettered thought.

In these rooms, the world's vast hissing tangle of shadows burns away, all its treacherous grays are honed to the stark purity of a bare blade, two-edged: cause and effect, good and evil.

yes was bound to start a fight. After all these years, Zoe realized it was all in how things

It was the only right answer.

Oh, for fuck's sake; sometimes a raccoon is just a raccoon!

Fitzroy, what is this shit?" "Henry, please, not Fitzroy.

The more you know, the less you understand.

I felt confused, to some degree, by everything—but in a delayed manner, in that I seemed to be repeatedly realizing that I felt confused, instead of feeling directly confused

No one can see their reflection in running water. It is only in still water that we can see.

There were things worth keeping and things worth letting go of, and figuring out which was which wasn't that easy." -Jane

Emotional fixations are like that—if you see them clearly, unflinchingly, for what they really are, you take the power away from them. They no longer control you. Confusion dawns as clarity.

This quality of seeing things freshly, as though for the first time, lies at the heart of mindfulness.

Mental noting can also be a help when you need to focus your wandering, confused, or scattered mind.

Equanimity is a profound quality of mindfulness that cultivates the ability to let go. With equanimity, we can acknowledge that things are as they are, even though we may wish otherwise.

Mindfulness means seeing things as they are, without trying to change them. The point is to dissolve our reactions to disturbing emotions, being careful not to reject the emotion itself. Mindfulness can change how we relate to, and perceive, our emotional states; it doesn't necessarily eliminate them.

Stepping back from our thoughts through mindfulness gives us the freedom to question the thoughts and so be less controlled by them.

Mindfulness is a meditative awareness that cultivates the capacity to see things just as they are from moment to moment

Their rule of thumb for classifying a state of mind was simple but profound: it depended on whether the mind state led to inner peace or disturbed the mind.

With mindfulness, we can see their impersonal nature more clearly, not identifying with the thinker, letting thoughts dissolve like waves back into awareness.

Mindfulness can help you recognize your fearful thoughts so that you can see that they're simply thoughts, not reality.

mindfulness creates a "wise" attention, a space of clarity that emerges when we quiet the mind. It makes us more receptive to the whispers of our innate intuitive wisdom.