Quotes About Clarity

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For the important work, the instructions are always insufficient.

A life without attachment and stress can give you the freedom to see things as they are and call them as you see them.

Would the fountain of your mind were clear again, that I might water an ass at it!

Mrs. Westcliffe, our headmistress, had a ramrod spine and ebony hair and lips that could pinch off her words with such knife-edged clarity you wondered that you didn't bleed to death from a mere, "Good morning.

There are certain moments in life when hard, hot truth shines at you like a spotlight from heaven, like the focused beam from a lighthouse on the shore of yourself, and you find yourself stripped naked in its light. You can't hide from it. You can't close your eyes and wish it away. It's truth; easy truth or unbearable truth, either way, it won't be vanquished. And there you are for all to see, stuck in its merciless glare.

I guess love distorts our perception of reality, and it's even harder to recognize the truth when it's buried underneath layers of what we imagine relationships should be like.

She [Catherine] walked through the stunned group in a haze of delight. Before all these people, her father had praised her. Not for docility or embroidery or music, but for the one quality she had thought he despised, her clarity of thought. Was it possible that he was proud of her?

ILL-AH-NO-WAY

Thoughts need words. Words need a voice.

People turn to meditation because they want to make good decisions, break bad habits & bounce back better from disappointments.

The art of concentration is a continual letting go. We let go of what is inessential or distracting. We let go of a thought or a feeling, not because we are afraid of it or because we can't bear to acknowledge it as a part of our experience; but, because it is UNNECESSARY.

When we don't tell those we love about what's really going on or listen carefully to what they have to say, we tend to fill in the blanks with stories.

Desire- grasping, clinging, greed, attachment - is a state of mind that defines what we think we need in order to be happy. We project all of our hopes and dreams of fulfillment onto some object of our attention. This may be a certain activity or outcome, a particular thing or person. Deluded by our temporary enchantment, we view the world with tunnel vision. That object, and that alone, will make us happy.

We can understand the inherent radiance & purity of our minds by understanding metta. Like the mind, metta is not distorted by what it encounters.

The poet Rumi says: How long will we fill our pockets like children with dirt and stones? Let the world go. Holding it, we never know ourselves, never are airborne.

Mindfulness is the agent of our freedom. Through mindfulness we arrive at faith we grow in wisdom & we attain equanimity.

When we forgive someone, we don't pretend that the harm didn't happen or cause us pain. We see it clearly for what it was, but we also come to see that fixating on the memory of harm generates anger and sadness.

Mindfulness helps us to set boundaries by revealing what makes us unhappy & what brings us peace.

Meditation trains the mind the way physical exercise strengthens the body.

What we learn in meditation, we can apply to all other realms of our lives.

Distraction wastes our energy, concentration restores it.

In Buddhism there is one word for mind & heart: chitta. Chitta refers not just to thoughts and emotions in the narrow sense of arising from the brain, but also to the whole range of consciousness, vast & unimpeded.

When we feel conflicted about a particular decision or action, our bodies often hold the answer—if we take the time to stop and tune in.