Quotes About Clarity

Compassion is born out of lovingkindness. It is born of knowing our oneness, not just thinking about it or wishing it were so. It is born out of the wisdom of seeing things exactly as they are.

It's better to do nothing than to waste your time.

The personal power of being confident and clear about our actions and saying what we know without holding back is described in the texts as 'the lions roar.

Open Awareness The Angle of Vision Leadership Openness Getting Out of The Way Possibilities MEDITATION:

When your attention is diffuse, it's like a broad, weak beam of light that doesn't reveal much. Concentration brings the weak beam down to a single, sharply focused, supremely bright, exponentially more illuminating point.

Ten thousand flowers in spring, the moon in autumn, A cool breeze in summer, snow in winter— If your mind is not clouded by unnecessary things, this is the best season of your life.

Mindfulness practice helps create space between our actual experiences and the reflexive stories we tend to tell about them.

We cultivate mindfulness to help us distinguish the actual experience from the story we tell ourselves.

Each opportunity to interrupt the onslaught of thoughts and return to the object of meditation is, in fact, a moment of enlightenment

The more we practice mindfulness, the more alert we become to the cost of keeping secrets.

Love simply, perpetually exists and that it's a matter of psychic housekeeping to make room for it.

Michelangelo was once asked how he would carve an elephant. He replied, "I would take a large piece of stone and take away everything that was not the elephant.

If we hold beliefs skillfully, we will not get entangled in them, but will see them as the mental constructs they are. When we claim our right to question everything, including our beliefs, we can unhook from our dependence on what is familiar and let in the heartfelt, open, fresh quality of faith.

I need scarcely point out

I asked myself, again and again: 'What does it mean? What does it mean?' And you know, I finally found the answer; one answer, anyhow. It dont mean a thing. Nothing. Why should it mean anything? I stopped thinking about it is what I finally did. It's what you better do, too. Dont think about it.

We no longer have the luxury of spending our energy on anything that does not lead us and our families to Christ.

Recent history takes a while to set. People really don't know what just happened. They only figure it out later.

Here is my lens. You know my methods.

Drinking would shut down my seeing and my hearing and my feeling,' she used to say. 'Why would I want to be in the world if I couldn't touch the world with all of my senses intact?

In the middle of a crazy and drunk life, you have to hang onto the good and sober moments tightly.

Tell me, did you summon me just so you could beat the crap out of me? Or is there a more productive reason for why I'm here? (Eros)

Why can't you ever answer a simple question? (Wulf) Ask me a simple question and you will get a simple answer. (Acheron)

There are three sides to every story: yours, theirs, and the truth somewhere in the middle.

So what do we need to do? (Kat) One: Don't die. Two: Don't get bitten. (Sin) And? (Kat) Kick their ass. (Sin) Good plan. Little vague on the details. (Kat) Isn't it, though? (Sin)