Quotes About Clarity

It's a familiar experience to poets, that arrival of a phrase laden with more sense than we can immediately discern, a cluster of words that seems to know, as it were, more than we do.

objective perspective

How do we remain disciplined, focused, and confident in the face of constant uncertainty?

True wisdom is the ability to see things as they really are. This is a gift the ring cannot bequeath. What wisdom Frodo has must come from a different source

The mind that realizes its own Buddha nature is said to be like clear space—it is empty and all-pervasive but also vividly aware.

to discriminate between the real and artificial is the beginning of wisdom;

A clear vision is as much about what you are not going to do as it is about what you are going to do.

everything else out of his mind the way

Good literature is a mirror through which we see ourselves more clearly.

Knowing isn't understanding

Perceiving is believing. Misperceiving is deceiving— And worse yet, prevents achieving.

That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way." —DORIS LESSING Ordinary

That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way." —DORIS LESSING

What I mean by crazy is irrational. There are four ways in which the people you deal with can be irrational: •?They can't see the world clearly. •?They say or think things that make no sense. •?They make decisions and take actions that aren't in their best interest. •?They become downright impossible when you try to guide them back to the side of reason.

6. Help guide the person to a saner way of thinking when he is calm.

Here are the three keys: Get in (quickly and efficiently describe the issue), neutralize the problem (by explaining how to handle it or why it isn't really a problem), and get out (move on to the next topic —do not linger or go into excess detail). Here's an example.

Perceiving is believing. Misperceiving is deceiving— And worse yet, prevents achieving. The

The first step in finding the sane inside the crazy is to believe it's there.

Sometimes the easy way out is the right way in.

The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes.

Idealism is not a reliable guide to the meaning of Revelation.

Yeah, I actually do know where I am.

Don't get me wrong, I admire elegance and have an appreciation of the finer things in life. But to me, beauty lies in simplicity.

Hindsight's perfect vision is seldom clouded by context