Quotes About Clarity

It would be something that another person had written down without understanding its significance; just a sentence or two that would be like a flash of light.

Love was love, but art was art and though he mixed the two a little, he never confused them.

I work more now because at this time of my life I am not disturbed from my aim by outside pressures such as family, passionate relationships, dealing with 'who am I?' - those complications when one is searching for one's self.

put problems into perspective—they give you a means for standing back and getting a better view of a situation

The line between good art and bad never seemed as clear as the one between a pie and an empty oven.

If a victory is told in detail, one can no longer distinguish it from a defeat.

The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.

omdat ze niet begreep dat ik met mijn benaderingswijze, die op het oog nogal ondoorzichtig was, in zekere zin beoogde de realiteit waarmee ik werd geconfronteerd murw te maken, zoals men er pas in slaagt bij voorbeeld een olijf aan zijn vork te prikken als men haar eerst murw heeft gemaakt, en dat mijn neiging nooit iets te forceren niet nadelig voor me was maar in werkelijkheid juist het terrein voor me effende waar ik, als de dingen me rijp leken, zou kunnen scoren.

Only in the early morning light of day, and of life, can we see the world without its shadows. Truth requires new beginnings.

Think for yourself and figure out what's true. That's it. Ask yourself what's true until you know.

There's no overestimating our ability to avoid making eye contact with the obvious.

Truth is a uniquely challenging pursuit because the very thing that wants it is the only thing in the way of it.

When you become so dissatisfied with your office that the hundred story plummet and the sidewalk seem like the better option, so dissatisfied that you actually hurl yourself out the window, then you know the level of dissatisfaction necessary to awaken from delusion.

Here's all you need to know to become enlightened: Sit down, shut up, and ask yourself what's true until you know.

The price. Of truth. Is everything.

I want to stop not knowing who and what and where I am. I want to stop being confused and unclear. I want to stop pretending lies are true and that I understand things when I don't. I want to stop playing make-believe and find out what's real.

Ask yourself. Who am I? If you do it, you will become enlightened. There is no possible alternative. The only way self-inquiry can fail to work is if you fail to do it.

The misconception about enlightenment stems from, or is at least compounded by, the fact that most of the world's recognized experts on the subject of enlightenment are not enlightened.

The reason for writing it down on paper or on a computer where you can see it is because the brain, unlikely as it may sound, is no place for serious thinking. Any time you have serious thinking to do, the first step is to get the whole shootin' match out of your head and set it up someplace where you can walk around it and see it from all sides. Attack, switch sides and counter-attack. You can't do that while it's still in your head.

There is no disorder. Nothing is random or chaotic, only fully perceived or not.

It is high time that we realized that it is pointless to praise the light and preach it if nobody can see it. It is much more needful to preach the art of seeing. Carl Jung

Wrong way to think about it. Don't try to figure it out all at once.

As the writer, I know, but does my reader?

The right words communicate; the wrong words obfuscate.