Quotes About Clarity

Let me say to those who practice the way: Seeking worthless things exhausts your mind. People have a spiritual essence, beyond words or description. When you call on it, it responds clearly, when it is hidden, you don't know where it is. Keep it well, don't let it be stained.

The only simplicity for which I would give a straw is that which is on the other side of the complex—not that which never has divined it. —OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES, JR. There

Never invest in any idea you can't illustrate with a crayon.

Know what you own, and know why you own it

Remember, things are never clear until it's too late.

The most effective people are those who can "hold" their vision while remaining committed to seeing current reality clearly

Acceptance is not a state of passivity or inaction. I am not saying you can't change the world, right wrongs, or replace evil with good. Acceptance is, in fact, the first step to successful action. If you don't fully accept a situation precisely the way it is, you will have difficulty changing it. Moreover, if you don't fully accept the situation, you will never really know if the situation should be changed.

The image produced by the scope was wonderfully sharp, but also extremely narrow,

You will know your state of mind when you wash the dishes. Your care or your impatience; your attention or your distraction. You will see yourself, at that moment, clearly.

Between perfect vision and total blindness lies all the truth we know.

Cuanto más sencilla era la explicación, más fácil resultaba creerla. —El

Enlightenment: Some Nothing from Which to Come

separating the truth from what's believed. This action allows you to let go of your own knowledge and open up to freshly experience this moment without presumption.

So many vague, as yet unanswered ponderings in my mind about social interactions became clear and moved into that happy, "situation now understood" part of the mind.

Parables subvert this desire to make faith simple and understandable. They do not offer the reader clarity, for they refuse to be captured in the net of a single interpretation and instead demand our eternal return to their words, our wrestling with them, and our puzzling over them.

Simplicity The primary issue here is to remove distractions and remain free from attachments.

Clarity is a result, not a requirement.

Something I worry about a lot when I write, that I'm less worried about with a computer, is about the ways in which English is ambiguous. I'm constantly worrying about ways in which the reader might misinterpret what I've written. So I've actually spent a lot of time consciously crafting the mechanics of my prose style to use constructions that are less likely to be misinterpreted.

I always wish people would comment more, though the thing that makes me cringe is when the comment is the name of the function rephrased. Function's called push_stack and the comment says, "This pushes to the stack." Thank you.

The code shows me what it does. It doesn't show me what it's supposed to do.

When you hold the world in your palm and inspect it only from a bird's-eye view, you tend to become arrogant— you do not realize that things get blurred when seen from an enormous distance," Yunus wrote.

If it's reality you want, I suggest you look out the window.

Und, dass es Glück war wird man erst aus der Distanz sehen.

If you don't know where you're going, any road will take you there.