Quotes About Clarity

The dying man sang with great clarity and intention and the riders setting forth upcountry may have ridden more slowly the longer to hear him for they were of just these qualities themselves.

The truth's not pretty of course. No one likes to look it in the face.

How clear one's own desires become once they are made impossible.

Don't get caught in your own thoughts, Fox. They would make her blind and deaf.

Writing is like driving a car at night. You can only see as far as the headlights, but you make the whole trip that way.

You want a burrito? I asked. Is that a question or a statement of the obvious? Neither. It's an order.

A sense of purpose is a wonderful tonic for anxiety.

This went on for five minutes. At no time did he disappear. "Can you still see me?" "Afraid so." "Damn!" His eyes snapped open. "Nothing? Didn't my skin turn opaque?

I freely admit I'm confused. I'm a confused and troubled individual but at the same time...Its Free!

Normal people live distracted, rarely fully present. Weird people silence the distractions and remain fully in the moment.

Sometimes dreams are wiser than waking

Woden preserve me from the terminally stupid.

Suddenly he realized what was happening.

She wasn't wrong, which wasn't the same as the idea being a wise one.

I don't get why you'd write scripts for romantic comedies if you think romance is cheesy nonsense." "That's just it, though," I said. "I don't write from a point of clarity. I write out of confusion.

What Jesus is saying here, powerfully and clearly, is that if you do the work of transforming your being, moving beyond the egoic mind, then you become a living spirit.

Somehow when the heart becomes single, the rest will follow.

Centering Prayer is not about developing concentration, attaining clear mind, conscious presence, a strong witnessing "I," some desired state. In Centering Prayer you merely practice and practice the core kenotic motion: "let go, make space, unclench"—thought by thought by thought.

Panic, he was discovering, is not the best soil to grow clear thinking out of.

Brother, even when you're on the track you aren't running on the track, don't you know that yet?

The rest of them were pretty sure they understood things, and that made them bad listeners.

Dicey awoke the next morning with the sense that she was ready to solve problems, the way you often do, as if the time of sleep were a long journey to a distant country where alterations in geographical formations, in light, in ways of living, in language even, enable you to see your own world more clearly.

He returns years later, has no demands. He wants only one, most precious thing: To see, purely and simply, without name, Without expectations, fears, or hopes, At the edge where there is no I or not-I.

It was as if thousands and thousands of little roots and threads of consciousness in him and her had grown together into a tangled mass, till they could crowd no more, and the plant was dying. Now quietly, subtly, she was unravelling the tangle of his consciousness and hers, breaking the threads gently, one by one, with patience and impatience to get clear.