Quotes About Clarity

The conventional Christian word is muffled, confused, and vague.

Margaret could not reply. Was he incredibly stupid, or did he understand her better than she understood herself?

Marvelous, marvelous! All sentient beings have the Tathagata's wisdom and virtue, but they fail to realize it because they cling to deluded thoughts and attachments.

Emptiness does not mean nothingness but the availability of space that allows a building to be rebuilt, out of true emptiness arises wondrous existence

Who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words

They came close. Oh they came close. Was all set to put a gun in my mouth and pull the trigger. But there was a computer glitch. Isnt that something? A stupid glitch and I had to wait a few days and then I saw the errors of my ways, saw so clearly that I was killing the wrong person. Its not me that needs killing, its them. Funny how things can change in the wink of an eye.

An intellectual crisis is such an invigorating walk in a freezing rain!

The world thinks we idealize our friend, and tells us that love is proverbially blind. Not so: it is only love that sees.

Meditation is all about the pursuit of nothingness. It's like the ultimate rest. It's better than the best sleep you've ever had. It's a quieting of the mind. It sharpens everything, especially your appreciation of your surroundings. It keeps life fresh.

I was working on the principle, you see, that the more obvious you are, the less obvious you are.

Well, that obviously wasn't good enough. Not by a long shot. Saying period at the end of something doesn't make it incontrovertible.

Qui t'as dit que je ne le savais pas ? -Tu le sais ? -Non.

Normally, words are sent from the brain towards the mouth, and somewhere along the line you take a moment to check them, see that they are actually the ones you ordered and that they're nicely wrapped, before you bundle them on their way towards your palate and out into the fresh air. But when you're caught up in the flow of things, the checking part of your mind can fall down on the job.

If things just keep going along as smoothly as if we're on a railway track, reassured by the regularity and predictability of that clickety-clack, clickety clack, why would we bother with introspection about the meaning and purpose of it all, let alone the direction we're taking? p37

Things that appear unlikely, impossible, or paradoxical from one point of view often make perfectly good sense from another.

Fear is static that prevents me from hearing my intuition.

I wish" assumes that I know what is the opposite of my present experience.

Sometimes the only way for me to find out what it is I want to do is go ahead and do something. Then the moment I start to act, my feelings become clear.

I live from one tentative conclusion to the next, thinking each one is final. The only thing i know for sure is that I'am confused.

All my life, I have made it complicated, but it is so simple. I love when I love. And when I love, I am myself.

What an absurd amount of energy I have been wasting all my life trying to find out how things 'really are', when all the time they weren't.

La escritura es un pequeño equívoco sin importancia, tan pequeño que nos hace casi mudos

You can't understand anything unless you unless you understand everything.

When you cross that chasm so that what you believe to be true merges into what is actually true, you have earned the right to inner peace.