Quotes About Clarity

Your life is something opaque, not transparent, as long as you look at it in an ordinary human way. But if you hold it up against the light of God's goodness, it shines and turns transparent, radiant and bright. And then you ask yourself in amazement: Is this really my own life I see before me?

Everything deep is also simple and can be reproduced simply as long as its reference to the whole truth is maintained. But what matters is not what is witty but what is true.

As we acquire more knowldege, things do not become more comprehensible, but more mysterious.

As we acquire knowledge, things do not become more comprehensible, but more mysterious.

passes he stands for a moment close to us, as though illumined by a flash of lightning. Then we see him as he really is. After

Water's water and that's why it's beautiful.

Pensar é não compreender.

It's not enough to open the window To see the fields and the river. It's also not enough to not be blind To see the trees and the flowers. It's also necessary to not have any philosophy at all. With philosophy there are no trees, there are only ideas. There's only each of us, like a wine-cellar. There's only a shut window and the world outside it; And a dream of what you could see if you opened the window, Which is never what you see when you open the window.

Praise be to God I'm not good, And have the natural egotism of flowers And rivers following their bed Preoccupied without knowing it Only with blooming and flowing. This is the only mission in the World, This—to exist clearly, And to know how to do it without thinking about it.)

The main thing is knowing how to see, To know how to see without thinking, To know how to see when you see, And not think when you see Or see when you think.

Digo de mim 'sou eu'. E não digo mais nada. Que mais há a dizer?

Há metafísica bastante em não pensar em nada.

Maybe this is why we read, and why in moments of darkness we return to books: to find words for what we already know.

No era fácil distinguir la claridad del miedo. Y tal vez la mejor solución consistiría en guardar, como siempre, una actitud decorosa e impasible.

What was the use of seeing things clearly if the only thing clarity brought was a new and deeper darkness?

We have to become still in the midst of the turmoil so we can observe clearly how our actions and the actions of others, past and present, fit together in the tapestry of life. In the timeless instant when we stop moving and simply witness the moment, the dust settles and the big picture emerges.

There are two sides to any argument. Does one side always have all the answers? Give it some thought.

Education, I fear, is learning to see one thing by going blind to another

La miopía exalta la individualidad. Verme a mí perfectamente y a los otros como pobres seres borrosos.

Y pensó en sí misma y halló solamente confusión.

pero si no se ve lo trágico de todo se es un idiota.

Es asombrosa esa manera que tenéis los soñadores de no ver claro más que lo que está lejos.

El legendario Emperador Amarillo nombró las cosas y las escribió del modo correcto. Una buena administración necesita diferenciar lo que es de lo que no es. El día que consigamos saber cuántos somos, podremos disfrutar de esa felicidad que sólo trae la certidumbre.

When the bullseye becomes as big as an elephant in your mind, you won't be able to miss it.