Quotes About Clarity

we seem to know who we are

If things were simple, word would have gotten around.

If you can't get it, immediately forget it).

To maintain a clear, balanced mind; to perceive things as they are, without bias; and to act without prejudging, constitute the core of nonattachment.

focused attention results in deeper and subtler perceptions.

Asked by a bank officer to identify himself, the Mulla reached into his pocket, took out a small mirror, and studied it for several seconds. Then he announced with confidence, "Yes, that's me all right, I am happy to confirm it.

Don't be idiots. For the love of Christ, don't be idiots.

Keep your eye on the simple problems. Solve them, and everything else falls into place.

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As an engineer he favored blunt speech

with that insight which comes to a man only once or twice in his lifetime, allowing him to see ahead into the structure of the years.

Where is Winesooth?" she had asked Wiktor, and he had said rather sharply: "On the map, where else?" "But where on the map? Clearly, it's not on mine." "It's got to be," he snapped, grabbing the map from her, then jabbing at it with his finger. "Right there, where it should be." "But that says Lancut," she protested, and when Wiktor looked again at the map he repeated: "It's right here, where I said.

Scarcity brings clarity.

Aimlessness is a vice, and such drifting must not continue for him who would steer clear of catastrophe and destruction.

The studied elimination of non-essentials from one's daily life is a vital factor in all great achievement.

They who have no central purpose in their life fall an easy prey to petty worries, fears, troubles, and self-pityings

a man's worldly success will be in the measure that he sacrifices his confused animal thoughts

Nothing is mine to claim or to command, But all is mine to know and understand.

No situation can be difficult of itself; it is the lack of insight into its intricacies, and the want of wisdom in dealing with it, which give rise to the difficulty. Immeasurable, therefore, is the gain of a difficulty transcended.

UNTIL thought is linked with purpose there is no intelligent accomplishment. With

As you succeed in overcoming self you will begin to see things in their right relations. He who is swayed by any passion, prejudice, like or dislike, adjusts everything to that particular bias, and sees only his own delusions. He who is absolutely free from all passion, prejudice, preference, and partiality, sees himself as he is; sees others as they are; sees all things in their proper proportions and right relations.

Having conceived of his purpose, a man should mentally mark out a straight pathway to its achievement, looking neither to the right or to the left, but straight.

There is but one religion, the religion of Truth.

UNTIL thought is linked with purpose there is no intelligent accomplishment