Quotes About Clarity

Iyther you dont know nothing or you know too much it dont seam like theres any thing in be twean.

It may happen to me at any time that everything will be just what it is, with no stories in anything.

We do not see the lens through which we look.

May my spiritual senses develop day by day, becoming more and more keen and enjoyable. May my taste for You become stronger and sweeter. May my sight of You become clearer, my spiritual ears more sensitive to Your voice.

Think not-thinking. How do you think not-thinking? Nonthinking. This is the essential art of zazen.

Drawing my thoughts out of my mind and holding me down to earth at the same time.

This is trouble with you. You think you want, you don't think you want–always back and forth. Me, when I want, it is with whole heart. I look at wanted thing with eyes straight on. But you! Neither here nor there. Your looking always crooked, from side of eye. It has no power to hold. So wanted thing, it slip away from you.

Maybe she was in a coma after all and just didn't know it.

Somewhere D?gen wrote about the number of moments in the snap of a finger. I don't remember the exact figure, only that it was large and seemed quite arbitrary and absurd, but I imagine that when I am in the cockpit of my plane, aiming the nose at the hull of an American battleship, every single one will be clear and pure and discernible. At the moment of my death, I look forward at last to being fully aware and alive.

A paradox for sure, but such a relief.

I thought I understood everything about cruelty, but it turns out, I didn't understand anything at all.

Assumptions suck. They're like expectations. Assumptions and expectations will kill any relationship

Nothing is simple. There are many answers, none of them right, but some of them most definitely wrong.

As in most cases when the truth becomes clear you wonder how you could ever have seen things differently.

It's a mystery how you know what to do, what to say, how to frame a prayer.

orang-orang yang tidak tahu apa yang paling mereka inginkan, pasti tidak akan mendapatkan apa pun

If you don't know what you want, you'll never find it.

Sólo cuando de verdad veías las palabras desaparecer, te dabas cuenta de lo secas y muertas que estaban, como hojas marchitas o dinero viejo y desechado.

We stand in darkness, surrounded by light

Confusão možno chápaÃ…Â¥ ako stav neistoty a bezradnosti. Vidíme okolo seba zúriÃ…Â¥ confusão, ale nemôžeme spraviÃ…Â¥ ni?, aby sme ho zastavili. ÄŒo máte nové? Confusão! Každý, kto rozumie významu tohto slova, vie už vtedy vÅ¡etko.

People understand me so little that they do not even understand when I complain of being misunderstood.

Such works are mirrors: when an ape peers into them, no Apostle can be seen looking out.

An illusion can never be destroyed directly, and only by indirect means can it be radically removed... That is, one must approach from behind the person who is under an illusion.

Lord, give us weak eyes for things of little worth, and eyes clear-sighted in all of your truth.