Quotes About Clarity

The truth is at the bottom of a well: look into it and you see the sun or the moon; but if you throw yourself in, there's no more sun or moon: just truth.

Ma le cose, dentro di noi, sono sempre maledettamente complicate; e tanto più inganniamo noi stessi, o tentiamo, quanto più evidente e immediato si prospetta il disinganno.

Per lei, vedo, la bellezza non ha niente a che fare con la verità." "La verità è nel fondo di un pozzo: lei guarda in un pozzo e vede il sole o la luna; ma se si butta giù non c'è più né sole né luna, c'è la verità.

Ma certe cose che la mente non intende, il cuore le intende.

La verdad está en el fondo de un pozo; uno mira en un pozo y ve el sol y la luna, pero si se tira ya no hay ni sol ni luna, está la verdad.

È sempre difficile che l'ovvio e il sensato entrino in un processo.

Die Mathematik ist es, die uns vor dem Trug der Sinne schützt und uns den Unterschied zwischen Schein und Wahrheit kennen lehrt.

You shouldn't believe what you don't understand. You should understand what you believe.

Reason must know the heart's reasons and every other reason

pues no todo en el fuego es claridad, sino también leña bruta, y ceniza, y humo...

When you can't see yourself objectively, you won't see anyone else objectively, either.

Through words we come to know the other person--and to be known. This knowing is at the heart of our deepest longings for intimacy and connection with others. How relationships unfold with the most important people in our lives depends on courage and clarity in finding voice.

The rush of sexual attraction can act like a drug and blur our capacity for clear thinking. This can lead us to distance ourselves from our friends or even abandon our life plan for someone who couldn't otherwise be relied on to water our plants and feed our cat.

One day it will become exceedingly clear what the best course of action is for you. This truth will be so unmistakable that a sense of peace will pervade you. The voices in your head that have been driving you mad will give way to a deep and profound knowing. But just like expecting beautiful flowers to grow in a garden filled with pernicious weeds, it's important to clear the way for our wisdom to emerge.

For unfortunately, simplicity is a state which is mostly achieved only through great difficulty, or the complicity of others.

Faulkner turned out to be a great teacher. When a student asked a question ineptly, he answered the question with what the student had really wanted to know.

The edges of my world are sharp, and they cut.

Truth has nutritional value.

We are concentrates, charged with the task in life of avoiding dilution.

One practice I rely on all the time is basic meditation which allows me to strip away the noise. Its like the old-fashioned dial on the radio, where you were getting static and then you found that clear, sweet spot on the dial, where the music would come through. That's what meditation is for me. Dialing out the static, the noise, the anxiety, the fear, and coming into a place that's deep and quiet. It's like dropping into a well of inspiration and wisdom.

If you are explaining, you're losing. It's a bumper sticker culture. People have to get it like that, and if they don't, if it takes three seconds to make them understand, you're off their radar screen. Three seconds to understand, or you lose. This is our problem.

I accept now with equanimity the question so constantly addressed to me, 'Are you an American' and merely return the accurate answer, 'Yes, I am a Canadian.'

In politics, being deceived is no excuse.

I like Shakespeare, but I never know what the hell is going on.