Quotes About Clarity

You are Tadeusz Radecki? I am in the right place?' 'I know who I am. What I want to know is who you are.

Perhaps the most important thing in life is for each person to stay headed in the right direction within his assigned place and not to veer off in vain or run around in circles on ill-defined quests.

She had to live a long and wretched life to admit to herself at its end that she hadn't understood anything about it.

Silence is the indispensable climate for all revelation; noise renders it absolutely impossible.

Mary Poppins's greatest precept: Never Explain.

When we crave something, we are holding on to the desire for the pleasurable aspects of an experience, while denying or ignoring its painful and unpleasant aspects. Craving is inextricably linked to suffering. We can be abstinent and still crave the experience we have abstained from, which is why it is important for us to cultivate sobriety of mind: a mind that is free of craving, calm, and clear-sighted.

There is nothing worse than falling prey To someone else's confusion.

Remember, if you hold something close enough, you lose your ability to see it.

I had come to the place where I now live. It is a place of freedom, the freedom to accept the evidence of my senses and my mind. It is difficult to describe the peace that comes with giving yourself permission to know what you know: to have hard, complicated realities staring at you and to be able to raise your head and look back at them with a steady gaze, scared maybe, grieved perhaps, but straight on and unwavering.

It is difficult to describe the peace that comes with giving yourself permission to know what you know. To have hard, complicated realities staring at you and be able to raise your head and look back at them with a steady gaze, scared maybe, grieved perhaps, but straight on and unwavering

my newspaper?" "No," said Charlie. "No. I told you

A good teacher is one who gives honest answers.

The art of teaching is clarity and the art of learning is to listen.

When in doubt," she said, "do nothing.

Understanding precedes peace.

What we look squarely in the eye rarely bites us in the butt.

E da un certo giorno in avanti, è come al primo canto del gallo; per bujo che sia, non è più notte, se aguzzi lo sguardo vedi baluginare l'alba, il ricordo ha una diversa consistenza.

Maturity means the ability to see what is important and what is not.

Lorsqu'une pensée est trop faible pour porter une expression simple, c'est la marque pour la rejeter

Love -- not dim and blind but so far-seeing that it can glimpse around corners, around bends and twists and illusion; instead of overlooking faults love sees through them to the secret inside.

In the kingdom of glass everything is transparent, and there is no place to hide a dark heart.

Have you ever seen the dawn? Not a dawn groggy with lack of sleep or hectic with mindless obligations and you about to rush off on an early adventure or business, but full of deep silence and absolute clarity of perception? A dawning which you truly observe, degree by degree. It is the most amazing moment of birth. And more than anything it can spur you to action. Have a burning day.

Desire is like fog on a bathroom mirror -- its presence incites you to wipe the mirror, and see yourself clearly again.

He was her death—and yet, her blade of life, of clarity, to cut through the thick roiling swamp of personal darkness.