Quotes About Clarity

Concentrate on your goals and make a small step forward. Try to understand the doubts you are facing and keep going.

Just simplify all that confusion and try to make life wonderfully simple again.

É através dos enganos que se acha o caminho correto.

A handful of common sense is worth a bushel of learning.

The brain that bubbles with phrases has hard work to collect its thoughts.

The truly educated man is that rare individual who can separate reality from illusion.

To make things 'perfectly clear' is reactionary and stupefying. The real is not perfectly clear.

He was a boy, she was a girl, can I make it any more obvious. He was a punk, she did ballet, what more can I say. He wanted her, she wouldn't tell, but secretly she wanted him as well

People create their own questions because they are afraid to look straight. All you have to do is look straight and see the road, and when you see it, don't sit looking at it- walk.

To achieve, you need thought. You have to know what you are doing and that's real power.

Contradictions do not exist. Whenever you think that you are facing a contradiction, check your premises. You will find that one of them is wrong.

James, you ought to discover some day that words have an exact meaning.

If you have God on your side, everything becomes clear.

The mind that doesn't need any outer conditions for happiness is the mind that can say, "This is the release from all suffering. This is true happiness." Such a mind sees with clarity the absolute reality of what's happening in this universe and doesn't have to hang on to anything, attach to anything, doesn't have to become anything, doesn't have to be anything. It just does what is necessary at each particular moment and then lets go.

Wisdom comes only from the understood experience and from nothing else.

Solitary meditation doesn't cause mental imbalances, but uncovers them.

The sequence between shamatha and vipashyana makes perfect sense: first refine your powers of attention, then use them to explore and purify the mind, which can be directly examined only through first-person observation.

When attention is impaired, it detracts from everything we do, and when it is well focused, it enhances everything we do.

The truth doesn't hurt unless it ought to.

God, give me courage to do what I can, humility to admit what I can't, and wisdom to know the difference.

As a beam of sunlight sent through a room will at once reveal numberless motes floating in the air of the room, so a ray of Divine love let into the heart will immediately make visible to us a cloud of imperfections of which we were before entirely unaware.

Truth is a spiral staircase. What looks true on one level may not be true on the next higher level. A complete vision must extend vertically as well as horizontally; not only seeing the parts in relation to one another but embracing the different planes.

She didn't need anyone to tell her he was all wrong for her and yet…

He locked gazes with her. "I have to wonder why you aren't being straight with me. I hate getting myself killed without knowing why.