Quotes About Clarity

that she never hung anything because when she wasn't working, she wanted the white space. Palate cleanser, Pauline would explain.

Everything seems new. The outlines of his furniture. The sunbeams slicing across the carpet. His hands before his face.

And then, as if the tears are telescopes, she begins to see more clearly:

Mom," she said. "Dad. It's not what you think.

His mind, for the moment, gone blissfully blank.

Celya Bowers

Quanto maggiore sarà il numero di quelli che intenderanno e avranno fralle mani il sacro codice delle leggi, tanto meno frequenti saranno i delitti, perché non v'ha dubbio che l'ignoranza e l'incertezza delle pene aiutino l'eloquenza delle passioni.

If all this were true, how easy it would be to understand people.

La tierra parece aclararse con luz propia, con una luz fresca y silenciosa que sale de las peñas y de las cosas desnudas.

According to the Buddhist tradition, the spiritual path is the process of cutting through our confusion, of uncovering the awakened state of mind. When the awakened state of mind is crowded in by ego and its attendant paranoia, it takes on the character of an underlying instinct. So it is not a matter of building up the awakened state of mind, but rather of burning out the confusions which obstruct it. In the process of burning out these confusions, we discover enlightenment.

The path of truth is profound—and so are the obstacles and possibilities for self-deception.

The idea is not to regard the spiritual path as something very luxurious and pleasurable but to see it as just facing the facts of life.

There are many, many details of action involved in the simplicity and sharpness of being in this very moment, here, now.

However, maitri is not just being kind and nice. It is the understanding that one has to become one with the situation. That does not particularly mean that one becomes entirely without personality and has to accept whatever the other person suggests. Rather, you have to overcome the barrier that you have formed between yourself and others. If you remove this barrier and open yourself, then automatically real understanding and clarity will develop in your mind.

A sense of knowing, or seeing, always happens. If you are willing to acknowledge its existence, there is the potential of being wakeful, open, and precisely there constantly. This is not based on being a sharp person, a smart person, or a very careful person. Rather, it is about being a person who can actually be—by yourself, very simply.

When we speak of "ignorance" we do not mean stupidity at all. In a sense, ignorance is very intelligent, but it is a completely two-way intelligence. That is to say, one purely reacts to one's projections rather than just seeing what is. There is no situation of "letting be" at all, because one is ignoring what one is all the time. That is the basic definition of ignorance.

Meditation, or samadhi, is connected with the idea of overcoming the constant search for entertainment.

You have to meet yourself, to know who you are and what you are. Without vipashyana experience, you don't have any idea of who you are, what you are, how you are, or why you are, at all!

Altogether, the idea of meditation is not to create states of ecstasy or absorption, but to experience being.

such understanding might be extremely boring. Also, such understanding might include seeing some things you don't want to see.

You should absolutely and completely stop all six of those misinterpretations.

Humility is not just something we develop so we can claim to be more spiritual. It also allows you to see your actions more clearly.

A process isn't a process unless it's written down.

Rumahku dari unggun-timbun sajak Kaca jernih dari luar segala nampak Kulari dari gedong lebar halaman Aku tersesat tak dapat jalan Kemah kudirikan ketika senjakala Di pagi terbang entah ke mana Rumahku dari unggun-timbun sajak Di sini aku berbini dan beranak Rasanya lama lagi, tapi datangnya datang Aku tidak lagi meraih petang Biar berleleran kata manis madu Jika menagih yang satu.