Quotes About Clarity

Throughout most of our lives, we're so caught up in this and that, rushing through these wonderful distractions and stages, that we don't (or can't) take the time to settle into the mellow light that's always there and to let freshness suffuse the frame. Thus we miss this simple matter of just doing and living fully.

We commonly see things 'out there' and go after them. Our mind is thus characterised by division and separation.

By our very attempt to grasp an explanation, we leave things out.

Don't worry about figuring out anything. It is not necessary to figure anything out, or to theorize, or even look out there. You need only to look at your assumptions, your unexamined beliefs.

Buddhism is not a belief system. It's not about accepting certain tenets or believing a set of claims or principles. In fact, it's quite the opposite. It's about examining the world clearly and carefully, about testing everything and every idea. Buddhism is about seeing. It's about knowing rather than believing or hoping or wishing. It's also about not being afraid to examine anything and everything, including our own personal agendas.

Ignorance is not the inability to see, but the act of ignoring what is really going on in favour of what we imagine.

To a buddha … there's no habitual overlaying of perceptual experience with concepts, … ideas, … beliefs, notions, pre-formed habits of thought, that are used to explain existence.

The buddha-dharma … is about directly seeing Truth, prior to forming any ideas about it. It is about responding to each particular situation as it comes … , not according to some … program of dos and don'ts.

We can easily see what actions and speech will lead us and others into hatred, confusion, difficulty, and suffering. And we can see what words and actions will not. ... Is our intention to hoodwink, mislead, inflate, or deceive others ... ?

When we see Reality, we are completely beyond the world of words and concepts. We experience what words cannot express, what ideas cannot contain, what speech cannot communicate.

Truth and Reality are … not found in the way we frame our thoughts.

There are no overwhelming questions such as 'Where do I go after I die?' because it becomes clear that such questions, doubts, fears, and anxieties are based on buying into an illusion – the self.

I]t's not conceptualisation that's the problem, but getting caught up in it, mistaking our concepts for Reality.

Ignorance is like a black hole that sucks everything into it, even illumination. Thus we can't see it, at least not directly.

W]e rely on what we think (conception), rather than on what we see (perception), … [T]here's unrest in our mind.

Los mejores planes suelen ser los más sencillos

every question mark adds to our cognitive workload, distracting our attention from the task at hand.

Having something pinned down can have a focusing effect, where a blank canvas with its unlimited options—while it sounds liberating—can have a paralyzing effect.

Vigorous writing is concise. A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts.1

Clear, well-thought-out navigation is one of the best opportunities a site has to create a good impression.

A person of average (or even below average) ability and experience can figure out how to use the thing to accomplish something without it being more trouble than it's worth. Take my word for it: It's really that simple.

Making every page or screen self-evident is like having good lighting in a store: it just makes everything seem better.

the main thing it usually ends up doing is revealing that the things they were arguing about weren't all that important. People often test to decide which color drapes are best, only to learn that they forgot to put windows in the room.

A person of average (or even below average) ability and experience can figure out how to use the thing to accomplish something without it being more trouble than it's worth.