Quotes About Clarity

I have often had a retrospective vision where everything in my past life seems to fall with significance into logical sequence.

I don't care about sympathy. I care about playing a character who's understandable and clear.

It was so completely obvious, and yet what proof was there? It was, Martin thought, like the rabbit which the Hindus see in the moon. It is next to impossible to make people see it; but once they have recognized it, they will never see a face or a man or a woman there again. It is obvious that there is a rabbit in the moon; but obviousness seems too often unsusceptible of proof. The Case of the Seven of Calvary

Maybe that's enlightenment enough: to know that there is no final resting place of the mind; no moment of smug clarity. Perhaps wisdom...is realizing how small I am, and unwise, and how far I have yet to go.

The only antidote to being duped is a thorough knowledge of and passion for Truth.

Often it is what we do not say which gives away a flaw in our thinking

You see, love isn't just something you feel. Love is something you become. It's like - going to a new country, and realizing that you never particularly liked the place you left behind. It's like a sort of tingling and - oh, I don't know - when she smiles I just want to start clapping or something.

I think you're failing to focus on the big picture." "It's only when one focuses on the small picture," James said, "that the full horror of this scheme becomes apparent.

If what you said was true, where was the need to shout?

A story is the shortest distance between a human being and truth.

There are two ways to wash dishes: One is to wash them in order to make them clean; the other is to wash them in order to wash them.

Happiness is a state of nonillusion, of dropping the illusion.

Has it ever occurred to you that you can only love when you are alone? What does it mean to love? It means to see a person, a thing, a situation, as it really is and not as you imagine it to be, and to give it the response it deserves. You cannot love what you do not even see.

What you are aware of you are in control of; what you are not aware of is in control of you. You are always a slave to what you're not aware of. When you're aware of it, you're free from it. It's there, but you're not affected by it. You're not controlled by it; you're not enslaved by it. That's the difference.

Hardly anyone has been told the following truth: In order to be genuinely happy there is one and only one thing you need to do: get deprogrammed, get rid of those attachments.

You want freedom? Here it is: Drop your false ideas. See through people. If you see through yourself, you will see through everyone. Then you will love them. Otherwise you spend the whole time grappling with your wrong notions of them, with your illusions that are constantly crashing against reality.

Do you know one sign that you've woken up? It's when you are asking yourself, "Am I crazy, or are all of them crazy?

Because agreement and disagreement have to do with words and concepts and theories. They don't have anything to do with truth. Truth is never expressed in words. Truth is sighted suddenly, as a result of a certain attitude.

The content of your awareness is less important than the quality of the awareness

A story is the shortest distance between a human being and the truth.

Suffering is a sign that you're out of touch with the truth. Suffering is given to you that you might open your eyes to the truth, that you might understand that there's falsehood somewhere, just as physical pain is given to you so you will understand that there is disease or illness somewhere.

In order to be genuinely happy there is one and only one thing you need to do: get deprogrammed, get rid of those attachments.

Ng??i ta mu?n bi?t má»™t ng??i th?c t?nh s? nhÆ° th? nào, nhÆ°ng b?n ch? bi?t Ä'i?u Ä'ó má»™t khi b?n th?c t?nh.

The great Chinese sage Tranxu puts it marvelously: "When the archer shoots for nothing, he has all his skill. When he shoots for a brass buckle, he is already nervous. When he shoots for a prize of gold, he goes blind. He's out of his mind. He sees two targets. His skill has not changed. But the prize divides him. He cares. He thinks more of winning than of shooting. And the need to win drains him of power.