Quotes About Clarity

When you feel the urge to design a complex binary file format, or a complex binary application protocol, it is generally wise to lie down until the feeling passes.

One of the main lessons of Zen is that we ordinarily see the world through a haze of preconceptions and fixed ideas that proceed from our desires. To achieve enlightenment, we must follow the Zen teaching not merely to let go of desire and attachment, but to experience reality exactly as it is—without the preconceptions and the fixed ideas getting in the way. This

You must be very specific in your wishes or they'll come back to haunt you.

Le besoin de comprendre ne se résume pas à un appétit de rationalité, c'est le besoin de se rassurer en identifiant les ténèbres, en mettant de l'ordre dans le chaos.

Nevoia de a înÈ›elege nu e doar o înclinaÈ›ie c?tre raÈ›ionalitate, ci nevoia de a g?si liniÈ™tea identificând tenebrele, punând ordine în haos.

Hakikat, bizim en fazla hoÅŸumuza giden yalan?n ta kendisidir, öyle deÄŸil mi?

The basic for any approach to self-transformation is an ever-increasing awareness of reality and the shedding of illusions.

Lack of concentration makes one tired, while concentration wakes one up.

To know and yet [think] we do not know is the highest [attainment]; not to know [and yet think] we do know is a disease.

all of us are more or less insane, or more or less asleep

Meditation is like sobriety in that it doesn't make everything perfect but helps us be okay with how everything is.

His (Claude Legrand's) method is founded in a simple directive: Don't conclude that the problem as it's first presented, or as you first perceive it, is indeed the actual problem. If you do, and you've got it wrong, the solution you produce may also be wrong. The first step to figuring out what your problem is, Legrand says, is to deconstruct it by questioning it.

I think I'm past the age of getting lost.

To be positive is to be mistaken at the top of one's voice.

To be positive To be mistaken at the top of one's voice.

Education, n. That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.

Genius - To know without having learned to draw just conclusions from unknown premises to discern the soul of things.

Worry retards reaction and makes clear-cut decisions impossible.

You can't wake a person who is pretending to be asleep. Navajo

Honesty is like an icicle; if once it melts that is the end of it

Je ne porte aucun jugement, je constate seulement.

Jean wondered how it might be to go out into the night and howl for sex. The clarity of purpose was appealing. No games.

Looking at beauty in the world, is the first step of purifying the mind.

You are a Golden Witnessing Screen. Meditation is the effortless effort to keep that screen 24x7 clean, clear and relaxed.