Quotes About Clarity

Robert Wright

When you're feeling either very good or very bad about yourself, it probably means that a large body of evidence is being hidden from view. The most truthful times come between the extremes.

being in closer-than-usual contact with the actual workings of your mind can lead you to confront issues with a new and perhaps unsettling honesty.

Quizá la mejor manera de decirlo sea que la iluminación y la liberación se refuerzan mutuamente: cuantas más cosas que nos liberan del sufrimiento hacemos, más clara es nuestra visión, y cuanto más clara sea nuestra visión, más fácil nos resultará hacer las cosas que nos conducen a la liberación del sufrimiento, lo cual, a su vez, nos permitirá tener aún más claridad de visión, y así sucesivamente.

The 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.

I would be approaching the truth.

clearest vision possible.

The world, moment by ordinary or agonizing moment, lies chock-full with its own clarifications and rewards. That such rewards most often go unnoticed keeps the artist in business.

Cuánta desolación. La claridad azul remachaba en el alma la monotonía de toda nuestra vida, cavilaba hedionda, taciturna.

life is a succession of misunderstandings, leading us on to the final truth, the only truth.

Cuando uno sabe, sabe, y cuando no sabe lo mejor es aprender. Y, mientras tanto, no decir nada, a menos que los que uno diga esté encaminado a hacer más claro el aprendizaje. Su vida misma, según explicaba, había sido un aprendizaje constante.

Everybody tends to pigeonhole things they don't understand," said San Epifanio.

As metáfora são a maneira de nos perdermos nas aparências ou de ficarmos imóveis no mar das aparências. Nesse sentido, uma metáfora é como um salva-vidas. E não se deve esquecer que há salva-vidas que boiam e salva-vidas que vão direto para o fundo. É bom nunca esquecer isso.

Quiere decir que cree que Kelly está muerta?, le grité. Más o menos, dijo sin perder un ápice de compostura. ¿Cómo que más o menos?, grité. O se está muerto o no se está muerto, chingados! En México uno puede estar más o menos muerto, me contestó muy seriamente.

Her silence wasn't unpleasant, not did it imply resentment or sadness. It was transparent, not dense. It took up almost no space.

Amalfitano began to weep. His little house, his parched yard, the television set and the video player, the magnificent northern Mexico sunset, struck him as enigmas that carried their own solutions with them, inscribed in chalk on the forehead. It's all so simple and so terrible, he thought. Then he got up from his faded yellow sofa and closed the curtains.

A blind life in which everything had the transparency of water.

Ahora sé que la cercanía no existe. Siempre alguien tiene los ojos cerrados. Uno ve cuando el otro no ve. El otro ve cuando uno no ve.

Muy distinto es no decir lo que se piensa que no pensar lo que se dice.

Nothing is so easy to fake as the inner vision.

If you don't hurry up and let life know what you want, life will damned soon show you what you'll get.

Remember I told you I've taken a vow of chastity. You understand what that means, right? Yeah," he said. "You're very generous. I think that's cool." I didn't quite get his answer, but I didn't want to prolong the conversation. [...] That's when it dawned on me what Greg had meant. [...] Um, that's charity, Greg, not chastity. He is so not the right guy for me.(137-138)

I thought guys were complicated. Maybe they are. But maybe they're easy and it's really me who's complicated.

If it looks like a duck, quacks like a duck, it's a duck!