Quotes About Clarity

At last I have drawn a firm line under the truly astounding great column of figures and am done with pursuing that for which I am not sufficiently intelligent.

Buddha believed that the less you judge things—including the contents of your mind—the more clearly you'll see them, and the less deluded you'll be.

Imagine if our negative feelings, or at least lots of them, turned out to be illusions, and we could dispel them by just contemplating them from a particular vantage point.

People see what they want to see and what people want to see never has anything to do with the truth.

Sacrifice requires perfect awareness of destruction: if this clear-sighted attention is missing, there is no sacrifice. For technology it's enough to justify with claims about its practical utility.

Pure is that which stands out against a background, which has a profile, which can thus become a target.

If you cling frantically to the good, how are you to find out what the good really is?

Clarity is not a characteristic of the human spirit.

But when mother died, Caroline was twelve, and in that queer time between childhood and nubile girlhood, when some girls seem to be wise without experience, and perhaps more clear-headed then they will be again until after their menopause.

I seemed to be the only person I knew without a plan that would put the world on its feet and wipe the tear from every eye.

His reply had that clarity, objectivity and reasonableness which is possible only to advisers who have completely missed the point.

If Heloise had been more clear-headed she'd have seen that Abelard was a frightful nerd in human relationships.

I shall be as brief as I can, for it is not by piling up detail that I hope to achieve my picture, but by putting the emphasis where I think it belongs.

You know what they say assuming does. It makes an ass out of you and me, but mostly just me.

Oh, why does compassion weaken us?' It doesn't, really ... Somewhere where it all balances out - don't the philosophers have a name for it, the perfect place, the place where the answers live? - if we could go there, you could see it doesn't. It only looks, a little bit, like it does, from here, like an ant at the foot of an oak tree. He doesn't have a clue that it's a tree; it's the beginning of the wall round the world, to him.

It is that I cannot see what I am doing or why, and it is unsettling always to live only in the moment as it passes. Oh, I know one never sees ahead or behind. But I see even less. It is like being blindfolded when everyone else in the room is not. No one can see outside the room – but everyone else can see the room. I would like to take my blindfold off.

HIs riders knew most of this, even if they did not see it with the dire clarity Corlath was forced to....

Your Chalice, Master, sees all things clearly, which is both her strength and her weakness.

So take the time to think. Discover your real reason for being here and then have the courage to act on it.

you will never be able to hit a target that you cannot see. People spend their whole lives dreaming of becoming happier, living with more vitality and having an abundance of passion. Yet they do not see the importance of taking even ten minutes a month to write out their goals and to think deeply about the meaning of their lives, their Dharma

Carl Jung once said, 'Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakens.

We live in an age when we have forgotten what life is all about.

Basically, I reduced my needs.

mantra is a phrase that is designed to free the mind.