Quotes About Clarity

didn't need to wallow with the pigs to know it stunk in the pen.

You've got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because she might not get there.Or – Yogi Berra.

white, vaporous

Talk slow, clear, and smart. If you can't do all three, keep your mouth shut.

Motivation requires a calm, centered leader who is focused on one thing, and only one thing.

Question: How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Answer: Four; calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg. —Abraham Lincoln

Most people are reluctant to see themselves as being creative because they associate creativity with complexity. But creativity is simplicity.

It's hard to be aggressive when you're confused.

Simplify. Focus on results. You will always get what you focus on. If you merely focus on activities, that's what you'll get...a whole lot of activities. But if you focus on results, that's what you'll get. A whole lot of results.

The simpler you keep it, the stronger it gets.

Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity." —Charles Mingus, legendary jazz musician

You can learn to clean out everything that muddies up your perception and stops you from seeing the infinite possibilities of life.

When you get your, 'Who am I?', question right, all of your, 'What should I do?' questions tend to take care of themselves." ~ Richard Rohr

But, I don't know what my purpose is," a lot of people tell me, as if someone forgot to tell them what it is. Those people may wait forever to be told how to live and what to live for.

A] book is not merely a book, it is the sun as well.

If your idea of good opposes something else, you can be sure that [it] is not absolute or certain.

Reality, of course, is neither concave nor convex, neither cold nor hot, neither self nor other. If we conceive cold apart from the rest of Reality—not only apart from heat, but apart from ourselves as well—we suffer from it.

We move through the world in a narrow groove, preoccupied with the petty things we see and hear, brooding over our prejudices, passing by the joys of life without even knowing that we have missed anything. Never for a moment do we taste the heady wine of freedom. We are as truly imprisoned as if we lay at the bottom of a dungeon, heaped with chains.

Right view is not a concept or belief. … [It] is simply seeing Reality as it is, here and now, moment after moment[;] ... relying on bare attention … before conceptual thought arises[;] … relying on what we actually experience rather than on what we think.

To see doesn't mean to initiate a programme of inaction. … To act or not to act is not the question. The question is whether or not we're awake. (…) [T]o … see what's happening in each moment, and base our actions on what we see, not on what we think.

religion is about seeing or experiencing Truth—not about holding a set of beliefs. Religio comes out of our deeply felt desire to get back to Truth. We don't want to be deceived.

There is no Mystery. You already know Reality. You only need to stop talking to yourself, and learn to wordlessly pay attention.

Reality … cannot be put into conceptual form.

Neatly packaging everything gives us the illusion we … know something.