Quotes About Clarity

Effortless doesn't mean no effort; effortless means just enough effort to be vivid, to be present, to be here, to be now. To be bright. My teacher used to call this "effortless effort." We each need to find out for ourselves what this means. Too much effort and we get too tight; too little effort and we get dreamy. Somewhere in the middle is a state of vividness and clarity and inner brightness.

Life is this simple: we are living in a world that is absolutely transparent and the divine is shining through it all the time. This is not just a nice story or a fable, it is true. THOMAS MERTON

We can only start to allow consciousness to wake up from its identification with thought and feeling, with body and mind and personality, by allowing ourselves to rest in the natural state from the very beginning.

When you rest in quietness and your image of yourself fades, and your image of the world fades, and your ideas of others fade, what's left? A brightness, a radiant emptiness that is simply what you are

You come into the natural state by letting go of control by letting go of effort and resting in a state of vividness. It's very simple. It couldn't be simpler. Sit down; let everything be as it already is.

Again, the only way to know that we've seen into the true nature of something is that the story we're telling ourselves releases.

Meditation is like an oven that forces the truth out.

It's important to note, as well, that we do not become immune to misperception simply because we've had a glimpse of awakening. Certain fixations and conditionings will linger even after we perceive from the place of oneness. The path after awakening, then, is a path of dissolving our remaining fixations—our hang-ups, you might say.

With a true and authentic awakening, who and what we are becomes clear. There's no longer a question about it; it is a done deal. In this way, one of the hallmarks of a true awakening is the end of seeking. You no longer feel the momentum, the push and the pull. The seeker has been revealed as the virtual reality it always was, and as such it disappears. The seeker has in some sense accomplished its task.

Spiritual people always think the Truth is hidden from them. It is not hidden. What gets in the way is the idea of what it is going to be.

For simple are the words of truth.

The words of truth are simple.

A word in season is most precious.

Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.

The one who asks questions doesn't lose his way

He who asks questions, cannot avoid the answers

To every problem, there is a most simple solution.

It is the brain, the little gray cells on which one must rely. One must seek the truth within--not without." ~ Poirot

To rush into explanations is always a sign of weakness.

Words are such uncertain things, they so often sound well but mean the opposite of what one thinks they do.

Hercule Poirot: I am an imbecile. I see only half of the picture. Miss Lemon: I don't even see that.

Fear is incomplete knowledge

I did not deceive you, mon ami. At most, I permitted you to deceive yourself.

Sitting here with one's knitting, one just sees the facts. -"The Blood-Stained Pavement