Quotes About Clarity

Details are all there are.

As we acquire knowledge, things do not become more comprehensible, but more mysterious.

He [John von Neumann] had the invaluable faculty of being able to take the most difficult problem and separate it into its components, whereupon everything looked brlliantly simple.

Proper teaching is recognized with ease. You can know it without fail because it awakens within you that sensation which tells you this is something you have always known.

Sometimes when learning comes before experience It doesn't make sense right away.

Education, I fear, is learning to see one thing by going blind to another.

To live a single day and hear a good teaching is better than to live a hundred years without knowing such teaching.

Attain deliverance in disturbances.

Obscurity in writing is commonly an argument of darkness in the mind. The greatest learning is to be seen in the greatest plainness.

The process is learning to turn your back on everything and everyone and face that immensity. And only after you've done that can you then turn around and face the world again with new, clear eyes.

We are learning to perceive existence in separate phases. One phase is to see that we are not our thoughts. As you sit, try and feel what is beyond thought - sense that you are separate from thought.

With mindfulness, we are learning to observe in a new way, with balance and a powerful disidentification.

Read to refresh your mind.

Not all things that are simple are all that simple. Certain simple things carry complex weight!

The legal system works really well, if you communicate a certain way. But if you don't, it all goes to Hell in a handbasket really quickly.

The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple. And yet, everybody rushes around in a great panic as if it were necessary to achieve something beyond themselves.

In order not to end up like the masses out there who are merely wandering and unsure of their goals and dreams, your objective must be clear. When your purpose is clear, your life will have meaning.

Silently hear everyone. Accept what is good. Reject and forget what is not. This is intelligent living.

Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple.

If the path before you is clear, you're probably on someone else's.

Whether you succeed or not is irrelevant, there is no such thing. Making your unknown known is the important thing.

Slow down and enjoy life. It's not only the scenery you miss by going to fast - you also miss the sense of where you are going and why.

You will receive everything you need when you stop asking for what you do not need

I've spent my life trying to make things simpler. Because I find ultimately that complicated doesn't reach the heart.