Quotes About Clarity

Life is a million different dots making one gigantic picture. And maybe the big picture is nice, maybe it's amazing, but if you're standing with your face pressed up against a bunch of black dots, it's really hard to tell.

I think that when you don't know, you should just wait until you do.

And when the veil lifts, we can see the world as it really is, just for those few seconds before it settles down again. We see all the beauty, and cruelty, and sadness, and love.

Some people learn to lift the veil themselves. Then they don't have to depend on the wind anymore. She doesn't mean that it's a real veil. And it isn't about magic, or some idea that maybe God is looking right at you, or an angel is sitting next to you, or anything like that. Mom doesn't think in those ways. It's just her way of saying that most of the time, people get distracted by little stuff and ignore the big stuff.

Why don't you and Patrick actually talk to each other?" Tab said. Em looked up. "Are you demented? And say what?

Belle surprised me. "Well, it's simple to love someone," she said. "But it's hard to know when you need to say it out loud.

How are you supposed to know what you want?" […] "I think that when you don't know, you should just wait until you do.

Well, it's simple to love someone,' she said. 'But it's hard to know when you need to say it out loud.

Reason's a thing we dimly see in sleep.

Here's an alarming fact: of approximately eight hundred thousand words in the English language, we use about eight hundred on a regular basis. Those eight hundred words have fourteen thousand meanings. By division there are about seventeen meanings per word. In other words, we have a one-in-seventeen chance of being understood as we intended. Perhaps you've heard of Chisholm's Third Law—If you explain something so clearly that no one can misunderstand, someone will.

The only correct actions are those that demand no explanation and no apology.

appearance.

There was no deeper truth in the mundanity of violence. That truth sat on the surface and required no mining at all.

People need to know what they need to know when they need to know it.

You can't find truth so easily in disorder. Grammar—and biology—and chemistry—and math—they keep things in order. We wouldn't know much without order. Good grammar does matter.

Have you ever felt that there was something going on in life that not everyone was aware of?

He's lost his way, but he's not lost.

It is the purification of the intellect which prepares for contemplation.

I'm moving on. I should have made that clear when I made the announcement. I guess I wasn't clear. If people think you're leaving a show after all these years, you might be retiring. So I understand where they're coming from, but I should have impressed the fact that I hope I'm just moving on right now.

Lord, grant me the strength to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.

Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer.

Practise what you know, and it will help to make clear what now you do not know.

Man can no more see the world than a fish can see the river bank.

Full awakening called for humility in emptiness.