Quotes About Clarity

Let me see if I have this straight. You were going to move out, although you didn't want to. Is that right?" She nodded. "Why?" "Because I wanted you to ask me to stay." "Ah, I understand now. You do one thing, hoping I'll respond by asking you to do the opposite." She shrugged, realizing how silly it sounded in the cold light of reason. "I… guess so.

All I need to do is open my eyes.

Truth is always the most important thing, even when it leads us into dark places.

frowned. Help you out, how? Unless you're

When Less is More, you often get More with Less. More passion with less planning. More love and intimacy with less information and grief. More freedom with less fretting. And, yes, while we're at it, more style with less stuff.

and held on to it. "Because I'm not looking for a wife

Because, without knowing what is written up above, none of us knows what we want or what we are doing, and we follow our whims which we call reason, or our reason which is often nothing but a dangerous whim which sometimes turns out well, sometimes badly.

Is that why I went wild over her? Because once I saw her truly? Is devotion as simple as that?

To find the people who've became truly sane, seek among those who've managed to do without sanity.

He'd come to war to see abstractions become realities. Instead he'd seen the reverse. Everything was abstract now.

Nothing sudden is happening here. More is just suddenly being revealed.

read until his focus loosened and the lines of text divided into duplicates and floated on the page.

So...what do you want to do? He didn't even have to think about it. Kiss you again.

The world according to Bubba is simple - if it aggravates you, stop it. By whatever means necessary.

And that's when it hit me. Like a building had fallen on me. The oxygen in my chest swirled into a vortex created by a single instant of horrifying clarity.

Puedes tener algo a la vista durante toda tu vida, esperando que reconozcas su presencia, pero a menudo estás demasiado cerca para verlo.

And not the clarity of the insane, but the everyday clarity of an intelligent woman in a less-than-intelligent world. She smiled and gave them each a small, shy wave as she sat.

It transformed and sharpened everything she saw, smelled, felt. She could hear the ping of water moving through the pipes and smell metal in the river and hear rodents scuttle along the foundation. Her flesh felt as if it had been freshly slathered over her body this morning. She bet if she tried to guess the thread count of these sheets she'd come close, and her blood raced through her veins like a train moving across a desert at night.

The world's thinking is morally confused because it is informed by the morally confused.

Speak now! A full account! Attempt to hide nothing, or I will send fire to consume your testicles.

Use the art of reduction in every aspect of life. The Tao is all about simplicity, so the Tao process is about subtraction rather than addition. Remove obstacles and complexity to unleash the power of your natural capabilities and to fully express your vast potential.

The Tao does not accumulate or increase complexity—it reduces, simplifies, and streamlines. It's not about learning more techniques—it's about discarding the harmful elements.

You can always use intuition and observation to bring out the truth.

My life seemed like a glass tunnel, through which I was moving faster every year, and at the end of which there was darkness. When I changed my view, the walls of my glass tunnel disappeared. I now live in the open air.