Quotes About Clarity

At this level of mindfulness, it may help to use the method of naming—bringing to mind a single word that identifies the nature of the disturbance.

These emotional habits operate as powerful lenses on our reality, leading us to mistake how things seem for how they actually are.

We speak about losing our minds as if it is a bad thing. I say, lose your mind. Do it purposefully. Find out who you really are beyond your thoughts and beliefs. • VIRONIKA TUGALEVA

We find true refuge whenever we recognize the silent space of awareness behind all our busy doing and striving. We find refuge whenever our hearts open with tenderness and love. We find refuge whenever we connect with the innate clarity and intelligence of our true nature.

Just as a clear pond reflects the sky, mindfulness allows us to see the truth of our experience.

Taking our hands off the controls and pausing is an opportunity to clearly see the wants and fears that are driving us.... Often the moment when we most need to pause is exactly when it feels most intolerable to do so.

Buddhist mindfulness meditation called vipassana, which means "to see clearly

The most important thing is remembering the most important thing.

I asked myself, "Who is aware right now?" I was aware only of awareness: There was no "self" to locate. There was no entity that was failing, no self that was fearful and distraught, no foothold for self-doubt. While streams of sensations and emotions were moving through my body and mind, there was no one behind the scenes who possessed them or controlled them. I could find only the endless space of awareness—formless, open, knowing.

If you are once sure what you do want, you find that everything else goes down before it like grass under a roller—(all other interests, your own and other people's. I had

knew without question what I had seen. Adelaide and Penelope's mother could now, at last, rest in peace. I also knew without question that this information would be best kept from my husband. There is no point in trying to convert those who don't believe.

just because mindfulness is simple does not mean that it is easy.

Young people often struggle with pointless pursuits until they realize for themselves that they are pointless. And that, in fact, is the point.

Nothing shatters the reality of our good intentions like reality.

Is it love, or is it convenience?... She explained that connivence, habit, comfort, obligation- these are all things that wear the same clothing as love sometimes.

The truth is a strange thing. Like pornography, you know it when you see it.

I like my mimosas like I like my men...transparent.

Did we love so forcefully that night because we knew or because we didn't? Was there an alarm from the future, a furious bell without its clapper? Did this hopeless bell manage to generate a breeze, causing me to reach to the floor to find my slip and use it to cover myself? Did some subtle warning cause Roy to turn and pin me to my side with his heavy arm? In his sleep, he mumbled something but did not wake.

Yes means yes and no means no, but what is the meaning of silence?

Forgive me for being such a straight shooter. Nowadays they say it's being direct, but your mama called it being an asshole.

Don't flip the script on semantics," Celestial said.

When I saw you, I was looking into your face, but I didn't really see you. I don't have the right words to explain.

The chilly rationale of hindsight is what exposes the how and why of something that once seemed supernatural

Don't invest in things you don't understand.