Quotes About Clarity

Silence is so much more productive of wisdom and clarity than thinking.

The goal of this meditation is beautiful silence, stillness, and clarity of mind.

Delusion is so incredibly powerful, much more pervasive than most people know. As Voltaire quipped, "The only way to comprehend the mathematical concept of infinity is to contemplate the extent of human stupidity.

It is the high value that one gives to one's own thoughts that is the main obstacle to silent awareness. Wisely removing the importance that one gives to thinking, and realizing the greater accuracy of silent awareness, opens the door to inner silence.

You understand that the defilements promise you so much but that they never actually deliver.

If we want to go further, then instead of being silently aware of whatever comes into the mind, we choose silent present-moment awareness of just one thing.

That is all we want to see, so that is all we do see.

Wisdom is not learning but seeing clearly what can never be taught.

There's only one book worth reading: the mind

When light is produced, we no longer worry about getting rid of darkness, nor do we wonder where the darkness has gone. We just know that there is light.

Remember you don't meditate to get anything, but to get rid of things. We do it, not with desire, but with letting go.

Obi?no patnju poistove?ujemo sa ose?anjem, a ose?anje nije patnja. Poistove?ivanje sa željom jeste patnja. Želja ne izaziva patnju; uzrok patnje je poistove?ivanje sa željom. O ovoj konstataciji treba razmisliti i analizirati je u kontekstu sopstevnog iskustva.

Simply In Depth......

I became impatient with my own aimlessness.

I had slept like a log, and I couldn't remember anything frightening from my dreams. This seemed so strange to me that I asked my brother how it could have come about. "If you shut your eyes to a frightening sight, you end up being frightened. If you look at everything straight on, there is nothing to be afraid of." Looking back on that excursion now, I realize that it must have been horrifying for my brother too. It had been an expedition to conquer fear.

Ignorance is a kind of insanity in the human animal.

As I remember it, the fog-like substance that clouded my brain finally vanished as if blown away by the wind.

Home feels very cinematic: the further you are from the screen, the clearer the picture. The closer, the more pixelated and fragmented.

The more I learn, the less I know: the less I know, the less I understand: the less I understand, the less I can relate; I know you're crazy.

When you try to be everything, you wind up being nothing.

When you look at the Moon, you think, "I'm really small. What are my problems?" It sets things into perspective. We should all look at the Moon a bit more often.

Not being truly engaged with the people we're trying to communicate with, and then suffering the snags of misunderstanding, is the grit in the gears of daily life.

In order to fight a war (probably the most extreme form of poor communication), unfamiliarity is the preferred state of mind.

The person who's communicating something is responsible for how well the other person follows him.