Quotes About Clarity

As I review my life, I feel I must have missed the point, either then or now.

I guess I don't really know what I want to do, either. Sometimes I feel like a shook-up bottle of soda. Like, I have all this passion that wants to explode, but I don't know where to aim it yet.

Business could not make dull, nor passion wild; Who saw life steadily, and saw it whole.

The first step that leads to our identity in life is usually not 'I know who I am,' but rather 'I know who I am not.'

So much of life was the peeling away of illusions.

You need energy and life force to see and feel what you need to do. Otherwise you are in a dark room and you can't tell what's going on. You need to practice meditation.

When you start to meditate, if you stick with it, you will see tremendous changes in your life and state of mind.

When you meditate, you take charge of your life. You bring your conscious awareness to a new high point, where the vista is beyond any horizon.

Our current perception is very cloudy and all screwed up. As our perception increases through meditation, we're seeing life more correctly.

When you go into the planes of light, all of the incorrect ways of seeing and understanding life that you pick up are washed away.

With the practice of meditation you can move into other states of mind, sort of ungluing the glue that binds you to a particular perceptual mode, a way of seeing life which is an illusory one.

If you are just spaced out and you have no purpose in life, you pick everything up. Everybody else's thoughts will come into your mind, everyone else's desires.

Look at how beautiful life is, and just keep looking until you see it. You don't see what is in front of you because you're so distracted by your thoughts.

Enlightenment is a perfect state of mind. It is the direct seeing of reality. The world most people see, which they call life, is really just a dream.

The day-to-day life we lead has nothing to do with enlightenment. It is just around the corner, and we don't see it.

If one is enlightened, one does not perceive life with North, South, East and West. There is no California, there is no New York. In a higher bonding state of attention, everything is fluid light.

Human beings have illusions. The enlightened don't have illusions. They see things as they are, and in that seeing, they see ecstasy and joy. They see the play of life.

Even at five, I was beginning to understand the world of things better than the world of people.

Water boils most fiercely just before it disappears. And so it is, evidently, with human affairs.

Don't concentrate on the obvious. They might want you to miss something else.

Men... performed better when they understood why they were being asked to carry out a task.

Hal answered him. "We're as sure as we can be. The guard captain said he found a ball of yellow glass. What else could it be?" Jesper shrugged. "I don't know. Maybe a ball of yellow glass?

I said you were Sir Horace of the Order of the Oakleaf," Halt told him, then added uncertainly, "At least, I think that's what I told him. I may have said you were of the Order of the Oak Pancake." Horace

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