Quotes About Clarity

It seemed to him harder, as he got older, to find a simple way of life.

His purpose was to get done what needed to be done, and what needed to be done was simple, if not easy.

Certain mountains were that way, like the Bighorns. The air around them was so clear you could ride toward them for days without seeming to get any closer. And yet, if you kept riding, you would get to the mountains. He was not so sure he would ever get to Lorie.

I figured out something, Lorie," he said. "I figured out why you and me get along so well. You know more than you say and I say more than I know.

We've heard the content of our mental formations so many times we're sick of them.

Mindfulness is often likened to a mirror; it simply reflects what is there. It is not a process of thinking; it is preconceptual, before thought. One can be mindful of thought. There is all the difference in the world between thinking and knowing that thought is happening, as thoughts chase each other through the mind and the process is mirrored back to us.

Mindfulness is unbiased. It is not for or against anything, just like a mirror, which does not judge what it reflects. Mindfulness has no goal other than the seeing itself. It doesn't try to add to what's happening or subtract from it, to improve it in any way.

I'm the fine print; read closely. -Kristina Grish

Garbage is usually construed as useless complexity.

Autumn has come to northeast Montana. The vapor of one's breath, the clarity of the stars, the smell of wood smoke, the stones underfoot that even a full day of sunlight won't warm- these all say there will be no more days that can be mistaken for summer.

The odd thing about understanding was how often time alone seemed seemed to bring it about.

It's not so much

Nel profondo di ogni essere umano c'è un enigma nero come la notte. Lo scuro della pupilla altro non è che quella notte priva di stelle, lo scuro giù nel profondo dell'occhio altro non è che il buio stesso dell'universo. Solo come mistero l'uomo assume grandezza e chiarezza sufficienti. [...]

When everything gets messy and brutal and complicated, the truth is the first thing to go, isn't it?

Sometimes you don't know it. What you have been waiting your whole life for. You don't know until it is happening.

What I'm trying to say is that it will be okay between you and Nate. Because you both want that. Because you both want that more than anything. It sounds simple, but I'm learning that the problems start when you want different things

Don't Ask a Question You Don't Want the Answer To

You have something you want to do. Something you like to do. Something you're good at. Why don't we start with that? Why don't you let that be the entire plan for now?

I hear the crazy. She sounds crazy. Maybe that's what happens when the bottom falls out, you lose the ability to modulate—to make your words make sense to the rest of the world.

Maybe this only had to be as big as I let it be. So why was I letting it be everything?

My father never measured success the way he did - reaching the top-top of something, as if there was an objective tip-top. My father measured it by how well you figured out what you wanted for your life - what you needed to be happy -Georgia

It basically means, we don't know shit about anything

Sometimes you don't know it. What you have been waiting your whole life for. You don't know it until it is happening.

make this all work." "My grandfather used to say that most people don't want to hear the thing that will make it work better," I said. "They