Quotes About Clarity

All of man's troubles have arisen from the fact that we do not know what we are and do not agree on what we want to be.

In school you learned to write as if the reader Were in constant danger of getting lost, A problem you were taught to solve not by writing clearly But by shackling your sentences and paragraphs together. Think about transitions. Remember how it goes? Late in the paragraph you prepare for the transition to the next paragraph— The great leap over the void, across that yawning indentation. You were taught the art of the flying trapeze, But not how to write.

Without extraneous words or phrases or clauses, there will be room for implication.

But long sentences often tend to collapse or break down or become opaque or trip over their awkwardness.

change only one variable at a time. The goal is a functional program, not confusion.

Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Can you think of anything more permanently elating than to know that you are on the right road at last?

Every day that you attempt to see things as they are in truth, is a supremely successful day.

Learn to see things as they really are, not as we imagine they are.

We are slaves to whatever we don't understand

We must become acquainted with our emotional household: we must see our feelings as they actually are, not as we assume they are. This breaks their hypnotic and damaging hold on us.

Your central self is totally untouched By grief, confusion, desperation.

You have succeeded in life when all you really WANT is only what you really NEED.

Just be honest with yourself. That opens the door.

A self-working individual will be sitting around home one day when the startling thought occurs, "Here I am, sitting around, doing nothing of interest, nothing to hope for, no one to talk with-and I am not depressed.

The intelligent person ignores what to do. He or she concentrates on what to be. We must put first things first. To be clearminded is first. Obviously, that is the only kind of mind that makes accurate and profitable decisions.

What a dawning appears to the man or woman who earnestly inquires, 'Who is living my life for me?' Am I really thinking for myself or am I unknowingly projecting acquired ideas which may be all wrong?

Don't make a direct effort to understand things. Rather, concentrate on your present misunderstanding. Try to see through your own false viewpoints.

I do know who you are. I just needed to be reminded.

To be enlightened is to know oneself and not run away.

Meanwhile, the night orbits in peace, graceful, lovely, having slipped her moorings, leaving the space unmarked, able to orbit, to curve firmly, until she sinks into the sweet clarity now pearling, the cushion of grasses where she will fall, gleaming from mysterious strokings, polished, glittering, mistress of surfaces.

Everything has its place. Let in only those things that are greatly desired, no more and no less. That's how to make sense of the world, and the only real way to achieve happiness.'

Getting Away As your handling of money gets clearer and your life becomes more satisfying, you will have less of a need to "vacate." Consider

Values are the chosen limits that allow our lives to deepen rather than dissipate.