Quotes About Clarity

Not Seeing Dukkha Is Dukkha

It is the truth that liberates, not your efforts to be free.

The last of these wholesome actions is meditation, the development of tranquillity and insight.

Awareness of motivation plays a central role in the path of liberation.

We see that each experience is simply just what it is, and that the "I" and "mine" are extra.

The last in this list of unskillful speech actions is frivolous and useless talk. How often do we say things that really are of no use at all?

That crazy bastard may be the only sane one left.

Death to all modifiers, he declared one day, and out of every letter that passed through his hands went every adverb and every adjective.

Oh, they're there all right, Orr had assured him about the flies in Appleby's eyes after Yossarian's fist fight in the officers' club, although he probably doesn't even know it. That's why he can't see things as they really are. How come he doesn't know it? inquired Yossarian. Because he's got flies in his eyes, Orr explained with exaggerated patience. How can he see he's got flies in his eyes if he's got flies in his eyes?

He woke up blinking with a slight pain in his head and opened his eyes upon a world boiling in chaos in which everything was in proper order.

Clevinger was one of those people with lots of intelligence and no brains, and everyone knew it except those who soon found it out

We have no ideas, and they're pretty firm.

You've got flies in your eyes. That's why you can't see them.

That's what Paradise is- never knowing the difference.

a nagging bitch of a doubt, burrowing painlessly inside a conscience that felt perfectly clear

Se trezi clipind din cauza unei uÈ™oare dureri de cap È™i când deschise ochii v?zu o lume clocotind într-un haos în care totul era în ordinea fireasc?.

Yes, now I see. But I still don't think I understand.

Nobody asked you what you did say to Yossarian. We asked you what you didn't say to him.

hands I could deny there were crab apples in my cheeks. Every time someone asked me why I was walking around with crab apples in my cheeks, I'd just open my hands and show them it was rubber balls I was walking around with, not crab apples, and that they were in my hands, not my cheeks. It was a good story. But I never knew if it got across or not, since it's pretty tough to make people understand you when you're talking to them with two crab apples in your cheeks.

Any possibilities that I might be mistaken about her humor were dispelled by her first words.

It takes courage to listen to your inner knowing … But once you hear that knowing, making a decision becomes fairly easy.

FOR THE BIG DECISIONS IN LIFE, YOU NEED TO REACH A DEEPER REGION OF CONSCIOUSNESS. MAKING DECISIONS THEN BECOMES NOT SO MUCH ABOUT 'DECIDING' AS ABOUT LETTING AN INNER WISDOM EMERGE. – Brian Arthur

If you detect a needlessly complex style when you read, look for characters and actions so that you can unravel for yourself the complexity the writer needlessly inflicted on you.

To concentrate properly, you still the wheels of your mind and enter into a quiet, relaxed mental state. When you concentrate, you gather your thoughts together; and you focus all your attention on your ideal, aim, or objective. You are now at a focal or central point, where