Quotes About Clarity

The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself.

If one does not know to which port is sailing, no wind is favorable.

When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.

Speech is the mirror of the mind.

Speech is the mirror of the mind. (Imago Animi Sermo Est)

The work of a lifetime, the process of individuation, is widening of that spotlight so much that everything is illuminated and you are conscious of and can see your All.

I like the night, I have clearer ideas in the dark.

La connerie, c'est la décontraction de l'intelligence !

Faut savoir s'étendre Sans se répandre.

Drink your coffee, it clears out the brain in the morning

La paranoia —que para mí es un estado de acceso a la verdad— se ponía a descascararlo todo con sus garritas de hurón: no podía evitarlo.

You get what you concentrate upon. There is no other main rule.

If you can't state your position in eight words, you don't have a position.

Real power comes not from hate, but from truth.

What he found were "a few brilliant beacons in a fog of fools.

I don't want to struggle to describe things anymore. I want to let experience happen without the filter of intellect.

The Great Way has no gate. Clear water has no taste. The tongue has no bone. In complete stillness, a stone girl is dancing.

Taoist chanting, Confucian chanting, Christian chanting, Buddhist chanting don't matter. Chanting Coca Cola, Coca Cola, Coca Cola … can be just as good if you keep a clear mind. But if you don't keep a clear mind, and are only following your thinking as you mouth the words, even the Buddha cannot help you.

Zen means putting it all down, cutting off all thinking, and returning to your pure and clear original nature.

The practice of Zen never explains anything. Zen simply points directly at our mind, our true self, so that we can directly attain enlightenment and help all beings. So

In your mind there is a diamond sword. If you want to understand yourself, take it and cut off good and bad, long and short, coming and going, high and low, God and Buddha. Cut off all things.

Si mantienes tu mente despejada, encontrarás felicidad en todas partes. Es la paz completa, como la mente de un niño, que no se apega a nada.

We are too busy fixing the train to realize that we are on the wrong track. We are too busy staying alive to figure out how to live.

Sometimes in life, confusion tends to arise and only dialogue of dance seems to make sense