Quotes About Clarity

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What was it like, she wondered, to wake up every morning knowing exactly where you belonged and where you were going?

At sunrise, everything is luminous but not clear

Sunrise is the time to feel that you will be able to find out how to help somebody close to you who you think needs help even if he doesn't think. At sunrise everything is luminous but not clear

Right speech requires clarity of mind and freedom from confusion about the meaning of non-duality, that super-ordinary reality embracing self and other. Buddhists often feel that to criticise firmly and harshly means being dualist. An increasing number of Western Buddhists have adopted the same polite, diplomatic tone. But dualism refers to greed, anger and delusion, not to critical analysis to end greed, anger and delusion. We

It doesn't matter what you can do if you don't know why you're doing it.

Observing someone without context amplifies the experience. The more we know, the less we are able to feel.

Do you understand? Do you see the forest through the trees? Do you not see what I am no longer not saying to you? If so—congratulations! Prepare to have sex constantly.

We are losing the ability to understand anything that's even vaguely complex.

We now have immediate access to all possible facts. Which is almost the same as having none at all.

If you don't know what you want, the doorman said, you end up with a lot you don't.

Honest is how I want to look. The truth doesn't glitter and shine.

It's pathetic how we can't live with the things we can't understand. How we need everything labeled and explained and deconstructed.

The trick to forgetting the big picture is to look at everything close up.

Nothing shows you the straight line from here to death like a list.

It's pathetic how we can't live with the things we can't understand. How we need everything labeled and explained and deconstructed.

In light this bright, after so long in the dark, everything we can see is only black and white. Only glaring shape-outlines we have to blink against.

You tell yourself that noise is what defines silence. Without noise, silence would not be golden. Noise is the exception.

The trick to forgetting the big picture is to look at everything close-up. The shortcut to closing a door is to bury yourself in the details. This is how we must look to God. As if everything's just fine.

It sounds trite, but only because words make everything true sound trite. Because words always screw up whatever you're trying to say.

The truth doesn't glitter and shine.

The sun's outside the bathroom window, trying to show us we're all being stupid. All you have to do is look around.

The trick to forgetting the big picture is to look at everything close-up. The