Quotes About Clarity

If you find what you do each day seems to have no link to any higher purpose, you probably want to rethink what you're doing.

To the extent that we can be precise about exactly where we disagree, we can make more progress in overcoming our differences.

And then Ehrlich's climax: "Let there be light. Let there be honesty. Let there be no running from nonexistent destroyers of morals. Let there be honest understanding. In the end the four-letter words will not appear draped in glaring headlights, but will be submerged in the decentralization of small thinking in small minds.

They say the world has become too complex for simple answers. They are wrong.

One picture is worth 1 000 denials.

Running clears my mind, and gives me a reason to get out of bed in the morning.

L'acte le plus révolutionnaire est une vision claire du monde tel qu'il est réellement

Cuanto más te acercas a lo esencial, menos puedes nombrarlo.

La felicidad es minimalista. Es sencilla y desnuda. Es una casi nada que lo es todo.

Accuracy of language is one of the bulwarks of truth. Anna Jameson

It is to be present to the way things are, including our feelings about the way things are. This practice can help us clarify the next step that will take us in the direction we say we want to go.

Abstractions that we unwittingly treat as physical reality tend to block us from seeing the way things are, and therefore reduce our power to accomplish what we say we want.

We keep looking so hard in life for the "specific message," and yet we are blinded to the fact that the message is all around us, and within us all the time. We just have to stop demanding that it be on OUR terms or conditions, and instead open ourselves to the possibility that what we seek may be in front of us all the time.

The foremost challenge for leaders today, we suggest, is to maintain the clarity to stand confidently in the abundant universe of possibility, no matter how fierce the competition, no matter how stark the necessity to go for the short-term goal, no matter how fearful people are, and no matter how urgently the wolf may appear to howl at the door. It is to have the courage and persistence to distinguish the downward spiral from the radiant realm of possibility in the face of any challenge.

The first snow of the new year lifted my burdensome thoughts. The snow brightened and cleaned and filled the air with oxygen.

She had started to understand how a woman's attention could succeed in making sense of a man's blind chaos..

Things look different from the middle of a flooded river.

I carefully kept myself in a cloud of unknowing.

We'll get to the truth quicker if we don't worry about logic.

Always say exactly what you feel. People are hurt more by misunderstanding than anything else.

I will not be distracted by noise, chatter, or setbacks. Patience, commitment, grace, and purpose will guide me.

In circumstances of real tragedy you see things straight away...past, present, and future together.

He had the same trouble as all intellectuals—he was ineffectual. He knew too many things, and they confused him.

Ce qu'est beau dans le monde animal c'est qu'ils savent sans se dire, tout et tout !... et de très loin ! à vitesse-lumière !... nous avec la tête pleine de mots, effrayant le mal qu'on se donne pour s'emberlifiquer en pire ! plus rien savoir !... tout barafouiller, rien saisir !... si on se l'agite! la grosse nénette !... pas un mili d'onde !... tout nous frise !... file !...