Quotes About Clarity

I am not here to speak the Truth. I am here just to give you a method to perceive it.

So the whole process of spirituality is just about enhancing your perception.

What does it mean to become a Buddha? "Bu" means "Buddhi," the intellect. One who is above his intellect is a Buddha.

Sex in the body is fine. Money in the wallet is fine. It is only a problem when they enter your mind.

A veces se da uno cuenta, repentinamente, de que la vida es torpe y vacía, y se echa uno a reír

Qué hago yo aquí? A veces se da uno cuenta, repentinamente, de que la vida es torpe y vacía, y se echa uno a reír.

Si te sacas los ojos y los lavas en el agua purísima del llanto, ¿por qué no el corazón ponerlo al aire, al sol, un rato?

I'm an aspiring writer.' I hate that phrase. You're either a writer or you're not.

Only facts will help you escape -- not hopes, fears or wishes.

She'd always found animals easier to understand than humans; they were so refreshingly straightforward and real.

Everyone sees the unseen in proportion to the clarity of his heart, and that depends upon how much he has polished it. Whoever has polished it more sees more -- more unseen forms become manifest to him.

en blekgul sol som verkade ha försvagats av överansträngning. Men det var soligt i alla fall, vilket var trevligt och lindrade min hemlängtan. Så när jag såg att solen sken klev jag upp och satte mig en klänning. Det var helt fel. Solen sken visserligen men det var kallt i luften. Det var mitten av januari men jag kände inte till att solen kunde skina utan att det blev varmt. Det hade ingen upplyst mig om.

Get a grip, Haskell.  Find a target, blast it, cook up an alibi.  What's complicated about that?

Don't ascribe to evil what can be attributed to well-intentioned stupidity.

Yes. Andrew. Ralph, I have to tell you about Jay." Hannah and Mary looked at each other. With everything that Andrew said, from then on, they realized in a sense which they had failed to before, that it had really happened and that it was final.

For in the immediate world, everything is to be discerned, for him who can discern it, and central and simply, without either dissection into science, or digestion into art, but with the whole of consciousness, seeking to perceive it as it stands: so that the aspect of a street in sunlight can roar in the heart of itself as a symphony, perhaps as no symphony can: and all of consciousness is shifted from the imagined, the revisive, to the effort to perceive simply the cruel radiation of what is.

Unfortunately we did not attend Voltaire's dictum to define our terms before we began. The result was disagreement on all issues.

Aphorism, n.: A concise, clever statement you don't think of until too late.

Thus meditating you will no longer strive to build yourself up in your prejudices, but, forgetting self, you will remember only that you are seeking the Truth

He who has seen the light does not choose to walk in darkness.

Human life when rightly lived is simple ... but it is not rightly lived while it is bound to a complexity of lusts, desires, and wants -- these are not the real life but the burning fever and painful disease which originate in an unenlightened condition of mind.

The world steps aside for the man who knows where he is going

Calmness of mind is one of the beautiful jewels of wisdom. It is the result of long and patient effort in self-control. Its presence is an indication of ripened experience, and of a more than ordinary knowledge of the laws and operations of thought.

We all want to de-clutter. To throw things out. But a minimalist lifestyle is bullshit unless you can do it across every sheath in the daily practice: not just physical, but also emotional, mental, and spiritual.