Quotes About Clarity

The only thing you'll find on the summit of Mount Everest is a divine view. The things that really matter lie far below.

We see as we are," said the Buddha

Nevertheless, it's important, even on a personal level, to not just look at things as we travel but to see things for what they are.

it soon becomes evident that their underlying problem is that they have no definite experience of their own desires or wants. Thus they feel swayed this way and that, with painful feelings of powerlessness, because they feel vacuous, empty.

Our task, then, is to strengthen our consciousness of ourselves, to find centers of strength within ourselves which will enable us to stand despite the confusion and bewilderment around us.

Kavray??, bilinçli emekten ba??ms?zd?r, eme?in bilinçd???nda kalan k?sm? istirahat sonras?nda bilince ç?kan biçimi haz?rlam??t?r.

Tik priart?jus ketvirt? dešimt?, po ilg? klajoni? tarp šedevr? man atsiv?r? tiesa ir supratau, kad paskutinio kamuoliuko išvis n?ra.

Khi ??ng Ä'i?u là thá»±c ch?t và tr?n v?n, không màu mè, thì ch? có im l?ng là bi?u lá»™ ???c nó ra.

I love you', she said, to remind me that there was one answer to everything, and only one.

Let's say that it's a good idea to see these things as they are, in order to gain some necessary detachment... — He gave a sad little smile. — I know, I know - the hardest peace treaties are the ones one has to conclude with oneself.

Analogies are like lies.

For the greatest things are accomplished in silence—not in the clamor and display of superficial eventfulness, but in the deep clarity of inner vision; in the almost imperceptible start of decision, in quiet overcoming and hidden sacrifice.

Joe Miller : Now, explain it to me like I'm a four-year-old.

In the end, there is no substitute for clear thinking, logic, and common sense.... A better path to enlightenment involves reading and thinking for yourself.

The thing that's cool about the recording booth is that it's so perfunctory, so cut-to-the-chase.

Here was a demonstration of what Howells maintained—at just about this time—was his most liberating literary strength, his "single-minded use of words, which he employs as Grant did to express the plain, straight meaning their common acceptance has given them . . . He writes English as if it were a primitive and not a derivative language, without Gothic or Latin or Greek behind it."13

And darkness. You can't see it no more than you can see air, but when it's all around you sure enough know it.

Choose your words meticulously and then let them rumble up from some deep furnace of conviction.

When a precious secret is collected It tends to glow in the darkness. Placed in daylight, fitted along a wide landscape of fact, it often loses its brilliance.

You wanna get the truth out of me, get me hammered.

The next time you have a thought . . . let it go.

Absolute confidence or clarity is the privilege of fools and fanatics.

See what is invisible and you will see what to write

Your behavior reflects your actual purposes.