Quotes About Clarity

It is indeed a mistake to confuse children with angels

Truth be told, John said, the one thing in this world I want more than anything else is a great big crowbar, to jimmy myself open and take whatever creature that's sitting inside and shake it clean like a rug and then rinse it in a cold, clear lake like up in Oregon, and then I want to put it under the sun to let it heal and dry and grow and sit and come to consciousness again with a clear and quiet mind.

With the first drink comes the truth, with the second drink comes wishful thinking, and with the third drink come the lies.

I was sick of wanting money. I was sick of being without a goal.

At what point in our lives do we stop blurring? When do we become crisp individuals? What must we do in order to end these fuzzy identities - to clarify just who it is we really are? -Richard

At what point in our lives do we stop blurring? When do we become crisp individuals? What must we do in order to end these fuzzy identities—to clarify just who it is we really are?

sometimes not knowing can be a lot worse than knowing—even if knowing proves to be very painful.

Given the two six-packs of Pabst Blue Ribbon you drank, I'd say that by midshift your blood alcohol concentration must have been around 0.2 percent, leaving you in no condition to notice any disturbance, much less investigate it.

What was that line of Sophocles from Oedipus Rex? "How awful a knowledge of the truth can be.

Most detection is simple.

The good people of Kibbencook, indeed all human beings, want answers, not questions, from their religious leaders. No matter.

Some things transcend even lunacy.

it was never too late for the truth.

many extremely well-organized people have illegible handwriting

when you really parsed what the man had said, he in fact had said nothing.

You see, between me and life there is a mist of words always.

Occam's razor. The simplest explanation is usually the correct one.

He was refreshingly, even alarmingly, direct

Information is like electricity; it powers the light that allows us to see our way forward.

Enlightenment is a destructive process. It has nothing to do with becoming better or being happier. Enlightenment is the crumbling away of untruth. It's seeing through the facade of pretence. It's the complete eradication of everything we imagined to be true.

My speaking is meant to shake you awake, not to tell you how to dream better.

The Truth is the only thing you'll ever run into that has no agenda.

Enlightenment is a destructive process. It has nothing to do with becoming better or being happier. Enlightenment is the crumbling away of untruth. It's seeing through the facade of pretense. It's the complete eradication of everything we imagined to be true.

At first it seems as if begoing follows becoming. But look even closer and you will see that there are only flashes of lightning illuminating the empty sky.