Quotes About Clarity

Don't try to understand! It's enough if you do not misunderstand.

In the stillness of the mind, I saw myself as I am: unbound.

Watch your thoughts and watch yourself watching the thoughts. The state of freedom from all thoughts will happen suddenly and by the bliss of it you shall recognize it.

You do not tidy up a dark room. You open the windows first. Letting in the light makes everything easy. So, let us wait to improve others until we have seen ourselves as we are - and have changed.

The experience of being empty, uncluttered by memories and expectations; it is like the happiness of open spaces, of being young, of having all the time and energy for doing things, for discovery, for adventure.

Awareness is ever there. It need not be realized. Open the shutter of the mind and it will be flooded with light.

You'll never decide what you want until you've decided who you are.

Sitting in the back of a cab, Scott pictures the boy eating cereal in front of the tv late at night - unable to sleep - watching a dog drawn from letters d-o-g talk to a cat drawn from the letters c-a-t. If only real life were that simple, where everyone we met and every place we went was fashioned from the pure essence of its identity. Where you looked at a man and saw the letters f-r-i-e-n-d, and looked at a woman and saw the word w-i-f-e.

His job is to communicate information and ideas, and how is he supposed to do that when language itself has become meaningless?

Acceptance is the key to happiness. You need to surrender yourself to the truth. You won't be happy until you do.

Those who understand the way it is, rather than the way they wish it were, are on the path to freedom.

Rather than reacting with our usual attachment or aversion, taking everything personally and feeling the need to do something about it, we relax into the experience, seeing it clearly and letting it be as it is.

The reason we don't reach our goals is three-fold: We're going after something we don't really want. That's why sometimes, we have to perform Goal Replacement Surgery. Three kinds of goals require Goal Replacement Surgery: 1. Impossible goals. 2. Someone else's goals. 3. Goals you don't really want anymore.

How it is we have so much information, but know so little?

Appearances to the contrary notwithstanding, most relationships do not end suddenly. This is true of friends, romantic partners, and business associates alike. When someone claims to be blindsided, it's usually because they had their eyes closed.

It didn't feel good, but on the other hand, it felt just right.

Simple people always reduce everything to their own simple measure.

There is one quality more important than "know-how" and we cannot accuse the United States of any undue amount of it. This is "know-what" by which we determine not only how to accomplish our purposes, but what our purposes are to be.

For a word to be a word, it has to refer to something that is not a word.

Reality is not, as we imagine it to be, difficult and painful. It is always only just as it is: suchness.

Never try to tell everything you know. It may take too short a time.

A man does not call a line crooked unless he has some idea of a straight line.

Mark Twain had a point when he concluded that it was not the parts of the Bible he did not understand that bothered him—but the parts he did understand!)

At sunrise everything is luminous but not clear. It is those we live with and love and should know who elude us. You can love completely without complete understanding.