Quotes About Clarity

Look around. It's almost gone. If only someone had told me that before. About life. If only I had understood.

found that with less effort in meditation, I could relax into a quiet, aware state much more easily.

Prayer is the difference between seeing with our physical eyes and seeing with our spiritual eyes.

You cannot truly win a conflict that you cannot truthfully define.

Correct division should be preferred over corrupt unity.

Corporate worship is to be intelligible.

we must refuse to speak in sanitized clinical euphemisms like calling adulteries "affairs," fornication "dating," and perverts "partners" because God uses frank words for deplorable sin so we will feel its sickness without anesthesia.

Delusion is the mind's tendency to seek premature closure about something. It is the quality of mind that imposes a definition on things and then mistakes the definition for the actual experience.

And this shows that sometimes people want to be stupid and they do not want to know the truth.

I see everything.

I said that I wasn't clever. I was just noticing how things were, and that wasn't clever. That was just being observant.

A white lie is not a lie at all. It is where you tell the truth but you do not tell all of the truth. This means that everything you say is a white lie because when someone says, for example, What do you want to do today? you say, I want to do painting with Mrs. Peters, but you don't say, I want to have my lunch and I want to go to the toilet and I want to go home after school and I want to play with Toby and I want to have my supper

The secret of contentment lay in ignoring many things completely.

And it is funny because economists are not real scientists, and because logicians think more clearly, but mathematicians are best.

sometimes people want to be stupid and they do not want to know the truth.

when people tell you what to do it is usually confusing and does not make sense. For example, people often say "Be quiet," but they don't tell you how long to be quiet for. Or you see a sign which says KEEP OFF THE GRASS but it should say KEEP OFF THE GRASS AROUND THIS SIGN or KEEP OFF ALL THE GRASS IN THIS PARK because there is lots of grass you are allowed to walk on.

most people are almost blind and they don't see most things and there is lots of spare capacity in their heads and it is filled with things which aren't connected and are silly, like, "I'm worried that I might have left the gas cooker on.

Sit still long enough and everything will come to you.

For example, people often say "Be quiet," but they don't tell you how long to be quiet for. Or you see a sign which says KEEP OFF THE GRASS but it should say KEEP OFF THE GRASS AROUND THIS SIGN or KEEP OFF ALL THE GRASS IN THIS PARK because there is lots of grass you are allowed to walk on.

I do not always do what I am told. And this is because when people tell you what to do it is usually confusing and does not make sense.

Everything in the garden became suddenly vivid as if some general membrane had been peeled away.

And now if I don't know what someone is saying I ask them what they mean or I walk away.

a simile is not a lie, unless it is a bad simile.

La gente habla mucho sin utilizar ninguna palabra.