Quotes About Clarity

Thus it is said: The path into the light seems dark, the path forward seems to go back, the direct path seems long, true power seems weak, true purity seems tarnished, true steadfastness seems changeable, true clarity seems obscure, the greatest are seems unsophisticated, the greatest love seems indifferent, the greatest wisdom seems childish. The Tao is nowhere to be found. Yet it nourishes and completes all things.

To have little is to possess.To have plenty is to be perplexed.

Sometimes it's hard to see the things that are holding us back. Sometimes it takes a push to make us truly open our eyes.

Lu-cy...you have some s'plainin' to do. ~Gem

While understanding reality is crucial, equally important is communicating it to your people. In part that means, as noted earlier, knowing your people and listening to their concerns.

If you can't describe your strategy in twenty minutes, simply and in plain language, you haven't got a plan.

While understanding reality is crucial, equally important is communicating it to your people.

Never hire anyone who starts a sentence with the word "Dude!" and never work for a guy who doesn't know the difference between mute and moot

A clever trick does not a concept make.

One thing I have learned is, if people tell you they had a "frank" discussion with someone, it is usually code for a yelling match with clenched fists.

Everybody knows what they want. They just won't examine their behavior closely enough and see what it means.

He could clearly see what was happening right in front of him. But he couldn't see what God was doing off in the distance. As

Inner peace and a clear conscience can't always be trusted.

I grew up in a church where we studied one passage or topic in the Sunday sermon, another in Sunday school, still another on Sunday night, and something entirely different on Wednesday night. Frankly, I never had much of a clue as to what we were studying—something related to the Bible, I suppose. The teaching was far too disjointed to create any sense of focus, and for most of us it was more of a data overload than anything else.

We're not looking at the breath in order to get to enlightenment.

but you're beginning to get a taste of what it is like to be free and clear, wholehearted and effortless.

That's your problem! No list. We are going to fix that now. Make a list of what is important to you. Write down everything that really matters to you.

There must be a happy medium somewhere between being totally informed and blissfully unaware.

The knowing of what she wanted rose up the way waters did from streams underground, so quietly you didn't notice until you slipped on the slicked-down stone.

the simples answer was usually true, but simple didn't mean it wasn't also complicated.

When we recognize that we don't have all the time in the world, we see our priorities most clearly.

Why does it take fear to move you? Why does it take chaos to make us understand exactly what we need to do?

You can't finish the things you weren't supposed to start.

There is a moment in every relationship when you see the whole thing. The question is when does the moment come? Is it the first time you see the person and instinctively know that things between you are going to work out, or fail? Or is it a moment toward the end, however you get there, when you realize that there is something behind this persons eyes that you were never able to touch, no matter how hard you tried?