Quotes About Clarity

Sol 3, that little blue dot, had a lot going for it, when you could get away from the dominant species long enough to clear your head.

But it's the same basic problem: What keeps us from seeing the obvious? Douglas puts his hand to the brass bull's horn. And? What does? Mostly other people.

Its effect is like that of a higher thought or a better emotion coming over me, when I deemed I was thinking justly or doing right.

Everything is so obvious, so blissfully clear. But her parents can't see it. There is great, joyous, and essential work to do. But first a person needs to graduate from endless self-love.

When her eyes open again, truths rush into her head. Like Enlightenment, but without the glow.

You can't see what you don't understand. But what you think you already understand, you'll fail to look at.

These people are nothing to Plant-Patty. And yet their lives have long been connected, deep underground. Their kinship will work like an unfolding book. The past always comes clearer, in the future.

The past always comes clearer, in the future.

once you enumerate them all, once you sample seven billion examples from each of seven billion humans and fit them together in their trillion trillion contexts, all things begin to come clear.

virus. In biology, nothing is clear, everything is too complicated, everything is a mess, and just when you think you understand something, you peel off a layer and find deeper complications beneath.

was simply unable to let things be foggy. Since they always are, this kept him pretty active.

Rose Bethe, who was then twenty-four, understood instantly. "My wife knew vaguely what we were talking about," says Bethe, "and on a walk in the mountains in Yosemite National Park she asked me to consider carefully whether I really wanted to continue to work on this.

Thomas Merton, the American monk, pointed out that we may spend our whole life climbing the ladder of success, only to find when we get to the top that our ladder is leaning against the wrong wall.

Integrity largely has to do with purifying our intentions and a growing honesty about our actual motives.

The game is over once we see clearly because evil succeeds only by disguising itself as good, necessary, or helpful.

It seems that human beings cannot see what they are not readied to see. We cannot hear what we have not been prepared to hear. The "obvious" seems to have little correlation with our acceptance of it. We all have an amazing capacity for missing the point.

When you get your "Who am I?" question right, all the "What should I do?" questions tend to take care of themselves.

Thomas Merton, the American monk, pointed out that we may spend our whole life climbing the ladder of success, only to find when we get to the top that our ladder is leaning against the wrong wall. Most

light is not so much what you directly see as that by which you see everything else.

this preoccupation with order, control

I believe, necessary for both joy and truth in this world.

When you are present, you will know the Presence. It is that simple, and it is that hard.

Remember, light is not so much what you directly see as that by which you see everything else.

People who know who they are find it the easiest to know who they aren't.