Quotes About Clarity

The map had been the first form of misdirection, for what was a map but a way of emphasizing some things and making other things invisible?

Sometimes you get a sense of when the truth of things will not be revealed by microscopes.

She liked the feeling of being winnowed down, as if there had been too much of her before, that anything unnecessary had been taken away and what was left was pure.

What if I said you still hold some of the answers, too.

That is the tragedy of everyday life: when you are in it, you can never see your self clearly.

Empty away your many thoughts to make room for more needed material instead of thoughts that we will never use. Einstein

Si no puede explicarlo de manera simple, es porque no lo ha entendido lo suficiente.

All negative thoughts – anger, fear, passion, compulsive craving -- tend to be fast. If we could see the mind when it is caught in such thoughts, we would really see it racing. But positive thoughts like love, patience, tenderness, compassion, and understanding are slow - not turbulent, rushing brooks of thinking, so to speak but broad rivers that are calm, clear, and deep.

Horas non numero nisi serenas,' 'I count - no - hours but - unclouded ones

Todo mi esplendor caía en la ignorancia, en un no querer mirarme

Das Nicht-Wissen darf am Wissen nicht verarmen.

I write to understand as much as to be understood.

Night is purer than day; it is better for thinking, loving and dreaming. At night everything is more intense, more true. The echo of words that have been spoken during the day takes on a new and deeper meaning.

A word is worth a thousand pictures.

Certain things, certain events, seem inexplicable only for a time: up to the moment when the veil is torn aside.

His breathing was labored. His eyes were closed. But I was convinced that he was seeing everything. That he was seeing the truth in all things.

Night is purer than day; it is better for thinking and loving and dreaming. At night everything is more intense, more true. The echo of words that have been spoken during the day takes on a new and deeper meaning.

One of his [Rebbe Mikhal of Zlotchev] prayers: I have but one request; may I never use my reason against truth.

Mandy! What's your goal in life? Visualize it! When you visualize, you materialize.

The Word of God I think of as a straight edge, which shows up our own crookedness. We can't really tell how crooked our thinking is until we line it up with the straight edge of Scripture.

Today is mine. Tomorrow is none of my business. If I peer anxiously into the fog of the future, I will strain my spiritual eyes so that I will not see clearly what is required of me now.

I beg women to wait. Wait on God. Keep your mouth shut. Don't expect anything until the declaration is clear and forthright. And to the men I say be careful with us, please. Be circumspect.

Wait. Wait on God. Keep your mouth shut. Don't expect anything until the declaration is clear and forthright...resist the temptation to trifle with other people's feelings.

A few clear pronouncements on one side and a few honest questions on the other had, in a matter of minutes, shown me that life was not going to be as simple, ever again, as I had thought.