Quotes About Clarity

Zen masters say you cannot see your reflection in running water, only in still water.

Parla come magni,' It means, 'Speak the way you eat,' or in my personal translation: 'Say it like you eat it.' It's a reminder - when you're making a big deal out of explaining something, when you're searching for the right words - to keep your language as simple and direct as Roman rood. Don't make a big production out of it. Just lay it on the table.

Beauty is not required. Beauty is accuracy's distraction.

True wisdom gives the only possible answer at any given moment, and that night, going back to bed was the only possible answer.

Most of humanity, he said, have eyes that are so caked shut with the dust of deception they will never see the truth, no matter who tries to help them.

the only thing you need to do for now is get some rest and take good care of yourself until you do know the answer

My face is a transparent transmitter of my every thought.

Just say what you want to say . . . and say it with all your heart.

The gods are fond of the cryptic and dislike the evident.

She thought she knew much, but she knew nothing.

This much I do know - I'm exhausted by the cumulative consequences of a lifetime of hasty choices and chaotic passions.

As Joan Didion said, "I don't know what I think until I write about it.

Hush," she said. "I'm thinking at the top of my lungs.

There were pages and pages of this. It was a confetti of thinking. It began nowhere, led to nothing, and concluded nothing.

When I don't know what I'm doing, I look like I don't know what I'm doing. When I'm excited or nervous, I look excited or nervous. And when I am lost, which is frequently, I look lost.

Looking for Truth is not some kind of spazzy free-for-all, not even during this, the great age of the spazzy free-for-all.

If you tell me slowly, I can understand quickly.

I wanted to call a time out, to demand that everybody just STOP until I could understand everything.

Cuando te pierdes en un bosque, a veces tardas un rato en darte cuenta de que te has perdido. Te puedes tirar un buen tiempo intentando convencerte de que te has alejado un poco del camino, pero que lo vas a encontrar de aquí a nada. Entonces cae la noche sin parar, y sigues sin tener ni idea de dónde estás, y ha llegado el momento de admitir que te has apartado atolondradamente del camino, tanto que ya no sabes ni siquiera por dónde sale el sol.

you cannot see your reflection in running water, only in still water.

If you clear out all of that space in your mind you would have a door way.

un cierto grado de desapego inteligente puede ser un valioso instrumento de paz en esta vida.

Lapse saamine on umbes nagu oma näo tätoveerimine. Sa pead ikka raudselt kindel olema, et see on just see, mida sa tahad.

I pause here for a moment to explain exactly what I mean when I say that word, just so people can decide right away how offended they need to get.