Quotes About Clarity

Things and actions are what they are, and the consequences of them will be what they will be: why then should we desire to be deceived?

Free from desire, you realize the mystery, caught in the desire, you see only the manifestations.

All thoughts, desires, conventions, attachments which come from outside must be ruthlessly pushed away.

There is enough light for those who only desire to see, and enough obscurity for those who have a contrary disposition

Let your desires be ruled by reason.

In the same way that rain breaks into a house with a bad roof, desire breaks into the mind that has not been practising meditation.

A recurring ideal, I find, is that of simplicity. At times there comes the desire to write with great precision and clarity, words so simple and moving that they bring tears to the eyes.

We all desire to be understood, but no one enjoys being obvious.

My preference for clear structures is the result of my desire - perhaps illusory - to keep track of things and maintain my grip on the world.

That 'simple desire' to share something meant that we could enter the world of language without words, where everything is always clear and there is no danger of being misinterpreted.

I desire to know wherefore I am banished?

I'll never forget the moment I became a dad. It's hard to describe-that level of responsibility, the desire to give such joy, the clarity: Nothing is more important than this.

There's nothing like desire to prevent the things one says from having any resemblance to the things in one's mind.

To know one's own desires, their meaning and their costs requires the highest human virtue: rationality.

Most of our troubles are due to our passionate desire for and attachment to things that we misapprehend as enduring entities.

If our mind is pure, our desires get manifested quickly.

Sometimes I think it's possible to mistake desire for clarity and talking in a no-nonsense way for aggression.

He never complicates a desire by overthinking it, unlike Mirabelle, who spins a cocoon around an idea until it is immobile.

Meditation develops the capacity to question your mind. Without it, you are at the mercy of every thought, every desire, every wave of emotion.

The desire for order is the only order in the world.

If you desire a thing, picture it clearly and hold the picture steadily in mid until it becomes a definite thought-form.

Being young is wonderful. But one of the secrets of being a human individual - a mature human individual shall we put it rather grandly - is that you can see this desire in perspective.

When you meditate you can stand back from your desire. When you silence the mind and there is stillness, only then can you tell if a desire is dharma.

Numbers serve to discipline rhetoric. Without them it is too easy to follow flights of fancy, to ignore the world as it is and to remold it nearer the heart's desire.