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Quotes About Clarity

Opinion is usually something which people have when they lack comprehensive information.
~ Idries Shah
Study the assumptions behind your actions. Then study the assumptions behind your assumptions.
~ Idries Shah
If, from time to time, you give up expectation, you will be able to perceive what it is you are getting.
~ Idries Shah
It is not important to have said a thing first, or best - or even most interestingly. What is important is to say it on the right occasion.
~ Idries Shah
I am in the present. I cannot know what tomorrow will bring forth. I can know only what the truth is for me today. That is what I am called upon to serve, and I serve it in all lucidity.
~ Igor Stravinsky
the wise know nothing at all well maybe one song
~ Ikkyu
pleasure pain are equal in a clear heart no mountain hides the moon
~ Ikkyu
cut off everything from everything stand here the soles of your feet the ground your brain in the black nothing between
~ Ikkyu
To see truth as truth, we don't need a lot of study. It's not complicated. What we need is pure observation. An open mind and fresh eyes will serve us well.
~ Ilchi Lee
Meditation is a powerful way to enhance your attention, develop your ability to think mindfully, and to use the unlimited creative potential of your mind.
~ Ilchi Lee
But now Jay's mind was so full of other things that he could no longer hear the bird's song.
~ Ilchi Lee
While sleeping, we're free to be what we really are, nothing more, nothing less.
~ Ilchi Lee
Everyone has it To know what it is. Take a journey deep within And open your eyes wide. Then you will see everything.
~ Ilchi Lee
Awareness, when managed and directed, becomes attention. By turning into attention, awareness becomes localized, and attains a focal point. Because of this feature, attention has the power to direct energy.
~ Ilchi Lee
Colliding with the bright light Of my true self, My illusions scream loudly, Themselves illusions Created by other illusions, Finally knowing that Deep within me Beneath the shell Lies the sacred beauty Of my true self.
~ Ilchi Lee
The deeper and slower your breathing becomes, the more space you will create inside you. Eventually, it will become so big that all your thoughts and emotions look trivial in the vastness of your inner space.
~ Ilchi Lee
Stay at the center of your being without allowing your attention to become distracted by sensory stimulation. Be still and let your true nature manifest and shine through.
~ Ilchi Lee
The truth is a stranger...Not always welcome by daylight.
~ Unknown
No such thing as a stupid question
~ Colin Powell
Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers who can cut through the argument debate and doubt to offer a solution everybody can understand.
~ Colin Powell
Tell me what you know. • Tell me what you don't know. • Then tell me what you think. • Always distinguish which from which.
~ Colin Powell
Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers.
~ Colin Powell
There are times when American lives must be risked and lost. Foreign policy cannot be paralyzed by the prospect of casualties. But lives must not be risked until we can face a parent or a spouse or a child with a clear answer to the question of why a member of that family had to die. To provide a "symbol" or a "presence" is not good enough.
~ Colin Powell
It's important not to get lost among the trees and forget about the amazing, beautiful forest you're planting.
~ Colin Wright