Quotes About Clarity

When the mind is totally present, it is relaxed, nimble, and sensitive. It feels lighter and clearer. It notices everything, but it is not distracted by anything. It is the feeling of knowing exactly where you are and what you are doing.

Heaven is the natural spaciousness of our mind before we make it small with self-protection.

in meditation, the mind will get stronger if we keep exercising our mindfulness.

The point of handling our motivation is not necessarily to channel it into a drive to be successful; that would be ambition. Rather, the point is to

1. Running with the Mind of Meditation

Remember why you are meditating: to balance the activity of your life by working with your mind.

Thus the mind is more present and at peace. So the clarity and peace of mind we feel after running is mostly because the wild horse is tired, not necessarily because it has been tamed.

The bones and tendons of the mind are mindfulness and awareness. Mindfulness is the mind's strength, and awareness is its flexibility.

What is really happening in meditation is that we are developing the ability to think when we want to, and to not think when we don't want to.

But why would we mistake an abundance of information for peace of mind?

Praying with You Lord, so often we are overwhelmed by all the tasks ahead of us. Today help us to turn our eyes to You so that we can discern between the truly important tasks and those that will not add any real value to our lives. May we look to You as our Peace today. Amen.

It is enough to know... Too much to see...

it lies in the capacity to be fully present. Present for a task, for a conversation, for the moment, for an opportunity. Present for your larger purpose in the world.

For the fact is that doing two things at once makes it impossible to be present for either because your attention is by definition fragmented.

I tell them, say what you're doing, say what you've accomplished, and say what motivates you. If you want to make partner, you need to say so, over and over. If you don't, the top dogs won't view you as committed. Just working hard won't get you where you want to go.

If you communicate with a slew of haphazard and conflicting messages, it's difficult to develop a clearly established route. You'll seem confused, or inauthentic, and the audience will be less likely to understand what you stand for.

Now you need to "front-load" your value. Cut to the chase. Get to the point. Make it short and sweet. The pressure is on. It's almost as if people have developed collective ADD, swimming like a goldfish from one message to another, jumping from one email to the next.

The only people who see the whole picture,' he murmured, 'are the ones who step out of the frame.

The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.

Somos una errata que ha pasado inadvertida y que hace confuso un texto por lo demás muy claro; el trastocamiento de las líneas de un texto que nos hace cobrar vida de esta manera prodigiosa; o un texto que por estar reflejado en un espejo cobra un sentido totalmente diferente del que en realidad tiene.

When the mind stops striving, the world's not a problem. A constant heart won't waver from the truth.

The quality of our relationships is directly proportionate to the quality of our communication.

Lead us not into temptation. Just tell us where it is we'll find it.

Lead us not into temptation. Just tell us where it is; we'll find it.