Quotes About Clarity

People use the word "goal" when they are talking about aspirations or outcomes. If someone says "goal," you can't be sure what they are talking about since the word is ambiguous. For that reason, "goal" is not part of the vocabulary in Behavior Design. Use either "aspiration" or "outcome" for precision.

Dust might cover the gem to render it lustreless but sooner or later it must fetch its intrinsic value. Reality can't be hoodwinked by any trick for long.]

True concentration is an unbroken thread of awareness.

When we free ourselves from physical disabilities, emotional disturbances, and mental distractions, we open the gates to our soul.

All games are meaningless if you do not know the rules.

We often fool ourselves that we are concentrating because we fix our attention on wavering objects.

disturbances of the mind and emotions fade away, and we are able to see true reality.

Ignorance has no beginning, but it has an end. There is a beginning but no end to knowledge.

There is nevertheless a chance that we can break free from the imprisoning past and individually train ourselves to control this reactive mechanism in such a way that the old patterns are not repeated; new things truly can happen, and real changes can in fact take place. This dawning clarity is, in essence, the path of yoga.

Lao Tzu, the Chinese philosopher, said, "Know yourself. Know what is good. Know when to stop.

Sensitivity is not weakness or vulnerability. It is clarity of perception and allow judicious, precise action.

After acting, reflect on what you have done. Has the brain interpreted the action correctly? If the brain does not observe correctly, then there is confusion in action. The duty of the brain is to receive knowledge from the body and then guide the body to further refine the action. Pause and reflect between each movement.

When we ask ourselves, "What am I doing?" and "Why am I doing it?" our minds open. This is self-awareness.

Literature need not answer every question it raises, but the questions themselves should be clear.

Oprah Winfrey told of calling Toni Morrison to say she had had to puzzle repeatedly over many of the latter's sentences. According to Oprah, Morrison's reply was "That, my dear, is called reading." Sorry, my dear Toni, but it's actually called bad writing. Great prose isn't always easy but it's always lucid; no one of Oprah's intelligence ever had to puzzle over what Joseph Conrad was trying to say in a particular sentence.

Great prose isn't always easy but it's always lucid.

The mind is the main instrument to gain enlightenment, but enlightenment is only reached when the mind stops. Q: How can we stop the mind? A: Not hitting it with a hammer. Stop the mind by the mind.

Naïveté, thy name is me.

The sun, which passeth through pollutions and itself remains as pure as before.

The mere presentation of an idea, unless we are careful about it, or unless there is within some unusual resistance, makes us believe it; and this is why the belief of others adds to our belief so quickly, for no ideas seem so very clear as those inculcated on us from every side.

People's outlook on Kansas City is always like, 'They let you rap in K.C.?' Or 'How's Dorothy and Toto?' They put Kansas and Kansas City together, when it's really separate.

Chance The Rapper is a person who really knows what he wants.

Yeah, if you go too far, like there's some rappers that use words that just be a little too out there, it makes it where someone doesn't really know what you're talking about and don't really have the time to sit and try to understand.

It's very rare in life to be sure about something - particularly when it's an issue.