Quotes About Clarity

Just as your hand, held before the eye, can hide the tallest mountain, so this small earthly life keeps us from seeing the vast radiance that fills the core of the universe.

Life without God is like an unsharpened pencil - it has no point.

We know what happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run down.

Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.

There are two kinds of light - the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures.

To act without clear understanding, to form habits without investigation, to follow a path all one's life without knowing where it really leads; such is the behavior of the multitude.

The hardest thing in the world is to simplify your life; it's so easy to make it complex.

When you are introduced to the clarity inside of you, to the simplicity inside of you, to that beauty inside of you, the journey of life begins.

The most useful piece of learning for the uses of life is to unlearn what is untrue.

We meditate so we can see miracles unfolding. Without stillness life is a blur.

What do you want from me?" he asks. What I want from every person in my life, I want to tell him. More.

When goals go, meaning goes. When meaning goes, purpose goes. When purpose goes, life goes dead on our hands.

Be as simple as you can be; you will be astonished to see how uncomplicated and happy your life can become.

The problem for us is not are our desires satisfied or not. The problem is how do we know what we desire.

We would all like to be able to live an uncluttered life, a simple life, a good life.

If the ladder is not leaning against the right wall, every step we take just gets us to the wrong place faster.

I had a wakefulness that I could not shake, and I was still drunk.

You feel like if they just read the manual first ... If we had a manual, that is.

The trouble with logic is that its relationship with reality is usually obscure.

But I am not those people. I am just the biologist; I don't require any of this to have a deeper meaning.

Everything around you—your office, the conversation in the corridors, the view from Beyond Reach—has acquired a kind of compelling sheen to it, a clarity that comes from knowing you will soon be gone.

If you don't know your passion, it confuses your mind, not your heart.

Once the questions snuck in, whatever had been certain became uncertain. Questions opened the way for doubt.

With the tower, we knew none of these things. We could not intuit its full outline. We had no sense of its purpose. And now that we had begun to descend into it, the tower still failed to reveal any hint of these things. The psychologist might recite the measurements of the "top" of the tower, but those numbers meant nothing, had no wider context. Without context, clinging to those numbers was a form of madness.