Quotes About Clarity

Good, sound research projects begin with straightforward, uncomplicated thoughts that are easy to read and understand.

how I conveyed information was often as important as the information itself.

Four things a man must learn to do If he would make his life more true: To think without confusion clearly, To love his fellow-man sincerely, To act from honest motives purely, To trust in God and Heaven securely.

For the last twenty minutes, having something to do, he had become himself again, had come to earth from that unsafe country of the brain

I have missed the point in thinking of my own feelings.

because if there was one thing he didn't like it was big words, they just lied and covered things up, those big words, they didn't let what really was live and breathe but just carried it off into something that wanted to be big, that's what he thought...

Eg forstår så lite. Og etter som åra går, så forstår eg mindre og mindre. Det er sant. Men også det motsette er sant, at eg etter som åra går, forstår meir og meir. Ja, det er også sant at eg etter som åra går, forstår veldig mykje, nesten skremmande mykje. Eg kan nesten bli matt av kor lite eg forstår og nesten bli skremd av kor mykje eg forstår.

Close the book. Read the title. Read the title again. Nuff said.

Concentration is a cornerstone of mindfulness practice. Your mindfulness will only be as robust as the capacity of your mind to be calm and stable. Without calmness, the mirror of mindfulness will have an agitated and choppy surface and will not be able to reflect things with any accuracy.

dwell in stillness and to observe without reacting and without judging.

A willingness to embrace and work with what is lies at the core of all meditation practice.

Mindfulness means paying attention in a particular way: on purpose, in the present moment, and nonjudgmentally.

Awareness is not the same as thought. It lies beyond thinking, although it makes use of thinking, honoring its value and its power. Awareness is more like a vessel which can hold and contain our thinking, helping us to see and know our thoughts as thoughts rather than getting caught up in them in reality.

Meditation is neither shutting things out nor off. It is seeing things clearly, and deliberately positioning yourself differently in relationship to them.

Knowing what you are doing while you are doing it is the essence of mindfulness practice.

One practical way to do this is to look at other people and ask yourself if you are really seeing them of just your thought about them. Sometimes our thoughts act like dream glasses. When we have them on, we see dream children, dream husband, dream wife, dream ob, dream colleagues, dream partners, dream friends. We can live in a dream present for a dream future...But if we take off the glasses, maybe, just maybe, we might see a little more accurately what is actually here.

Rather, it is bearing in mind what is most important to you so that it is not lost or betrayed in the heat and reactivity of a particular moment.

Meditation is not so concerned with how much thinking is going on as it is with how much room you are making for it to take place within the field of your awareness from one moment to the next.

Meditation does not involve trying to change your thinking by thinking some more. It involves watching thought itself. The watching is the holding. By watching your thoughts without being drawn into them, you can learn something profoundly liberating about thinking itself, which may help you to be less of a prisoner of those thought patterns (….)

As you begin befriending your breath, you see immediately that unawareness is everywhere.

We tend to see more through our thoughts and opinions than through our eyes.

When we commit ourselves to paying attention in an open way, without falling prey to our own likes and dislikes, opinions and prejudices, projections and expectations, new possibilities open up and we have a chance to free ourselves from the straitjacket of unconsciousness.

in meditation practice, the best way to get somewhere is to let go of trying to get anywhere at all.

TRY: Asking yourself in this moment, "Am I awake?," "Where is my mind right now?