Quotes About Clarity

Ink smears, as thoughts sometimes do.

I intentionally abandoned the hard stuff early on because not only do I think it's useless, I think it's a distraction.

My attitude is that, if you have nothing to hide, why not show it?

Let us change our traditional attitude to the construction of programs. Instead of imagining that our main task is to instruct a computer what to do, let us concentrate rather on explaining to human beings what we want a computer to do.

The ultimate security is your understanding of reality.

By keeping the mind in the present, unless you deliberately want to contemplate the past or future, it's possible to firmly face life without fear. Then, no thoughts of past failures or future problems will exist in the mind, and a truly positive mental state will result—fudoshin, the "immovable mind.

While we can learn or study techniques for almost anything we might want to accomplish, real understanding is not the mere accumulation of knowledge. Understanding cannot be realized by listening or reading about the realization of others. It must be achieved firsthand via substantive, direct perception in the moment.

The best teacher is not the one who knows most but the one who is most capable of reducing knowledge to that simple compound of the obvious and wonderful.

We are getting into semantics again. If we use words, there is a very grave danger they will be misinterpreted.

Clear sight results from a still mind

Enlightenment is removing all distractions

Enlightenment is seeing things as they are rather than as we imagine

Hell has a sign over the exit door, and it reads awareness

Meditation Before Medication

Our suffering is due to Spiritual Amnesia

The secret to reality, is stillness of body and mind. Mental clarity is like a pond. Still the pond. Let everything settle. Vision then becomes crystal clear. When we still the body. When we still the mind. When we let all thoughts and emotions settle. When we remove all distractions. Only then, we clearly see reality as it is.

The secret to understanding reality is stillness of body and mind

There is no peace in a chaotic mind

Thoughts and emotions replace reality with illusion. Both are subject to exposure by truth

True understanding is understanding the illusion

I would even argue that, for many displaced people, nostalgia is also blended with fear - the fear of uncertainty and of facing the challenges posed by the larger world and the fear of the absence of the clarity and confidence provided by the past. In essence, nostalgia is associated mostly with the experience of a particular type of migrants, namely, exiles.

Când, în sfâr?it, g?sim ceea ce am c?utat în întuneric, aproape întotdeauna constat?m c? era exact asta. Întunericul.

I don't think it will do any harm if he is made aware that we are not a bunch of idiots.

Be clear! Be clear! Be clear!" Clarity does not come easily. When we train to be expositors, we probably spend three or four years in seminary. While that training prepares us to be theologians, it sometimes gets in our way as communicators. Theological jargon, abstract thinking, or scholars' questions become part of the intellectual baggage that hinders preachers from speaking clearly to ordinary men and women.