Quotes About Clarity

All genius is a conquering of chaos and mystery.

Experience is an excellent spyglass; but it has this drawback, that Prejudice very often clouds the lens.

The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak. Hans Hoffman

The rest who does not know?

The obvious is the hardest thing of all to point out to anyone who has genuinely lost sight of it.

Plato had to make the tremendous effort (it is one of the most exhausting which man is called on to exert) of turning a vague feeling into a clear thought.

For inconsistent and slovenly thought can abide indefinitely in error without any feeling of discomfort.

Meditation is the soul's perspective glass.

Nothing more, nothing less...

You never really know what's going on inside Tony Iommi's head. He's the total opposite of me, in other words: no one's ever in any doubt about what's going on in the pile of old jelly inside my thick skull.

Aston (Be Sure to Wear Some Glass in Your Face)'.

when something seems complicated, we do not understand it, but when we do understand something, it has become simple.

We have a lot of reasons but only one real one.

Hay que ser muy simple para resultar siempre coherente.

Muchas veces una mentira es una verdad mal contada, pero en este caso la gran mentira escondía las verdades.

Les hommes les plus sains d'esprits ne sont que des fous tranquilles.

Héctor se dio media vuelta y salió de la habitación. Estaba dispuesto a jugar el juego, siempre y cuando alguien le avisara de quién era la pelota, dónde era el partido que se jugaba, contra quién jugaban y cuáles eran las reglas.

If you tell too much too soon, you'll overload them and they'll give up. If you confuse them, they'll ignore the message altogether.

Abandon your notions of the past, without attributing a temporal sequence! Cut off your mental associations regarding the future, without anticipation! Rest in a spacious modality, without clinging to [the thoughts of] the present. Do not meditate at all, since there is nothing upon which to meditate. Instead, revelation will come through undistracted mindfulness — Since there is nothing by which you can be distracted.

If, upon looking outwards towards the external expanse of the sky, There are no projections emanated by the mind, And if, on looking inwards at one's own mind, There is no projectionist who projects [thoughts] by thinking them, Then, one's own mind, completely free from conceptual projections, will become luminously clear. [This]

O, [you], with your mind far away, thinking that death will not come, Entranced by the pointless activities of this life, If you were to return empty-handed now, would not your [life's] purpose have been [utterly] confused? Recognise what it is that you truly need! It is a sacred teaching [for liberation]! So, should you not practise this divine [sacred] teaching, beginning from this very moment?

When you hear pleasant or unpleasant words, understand them to be an empty resounding, like an echo. When you encounter severe misfonune and misery, understand it to be a temporary occurrence, a deluded experience. Recognize that the innate nature is never apart from you.

Look into the awakened mind of your own awareness! It has neither form nor color, neither center nor edge. At first, it has no origin but is empty. Next, it has no dwelling place but is empty. At the end, it has no destination but is empty. This emptiness is not made of anything and is clear and cognizant. When you see this and recognize it, you know your natural face. You understand the nature of things. (p. 101)

To be a hermit doesn't just mean to live in the deep forest; it means that one's mind is free from dualistic constructs.