Quotes About Clarity

I invite you to consider anew what you know and what you have; what you are here for and where you are going; and how you are going to do what you have come here to do. p 13

I teetered between a dazed existence and hyper-awareness. At times, I walked around in a state of confusion, unable to focus on anything, as if I weren't fully alive.

No sentimentality, no romance, no false hope, no self-petting lies, merely that which is!

Alcohol does not make a smarter individual.

If a relationship is on-and-off within the first year, that's an immediate sign you are wasting your time.

Keeping it short and to the point is essential, otherwise he won't hear a single word.

She has a strength that is ever so subtle. She doesn't give up her life, and she won't chase a man. She won't let a man think he has a 100 percent "hold" on her. And she'll stand up for herself when he steps over the line. She knows what she wants

She keeps communication from getting messy and avoids communicating when upset. When she clears her head, she is succinct and speaks in a "bottom line" way.

Usually one feels aimless because one isn't sure yet what one wants—until one does, a proper strategy can't be formulated." Charlotte studied Livia a moment. "But in your case, it's possible you know exactly what you want, but you're afraid to want it, let alone pursue it.

The air had that pellucid mountain clarity that made shapes sharper and colors truer. The green of the paddy fields wasn't just green, but a lusty green, full of hunger for sunlight and moisture. And the slopes weren't mere hulks of rock, but the ribs of the valley, protecting the delicate strip of fertile soil from the worst of the harsh elements.

There is a rich literature on how to break out of quandary thinking. It suggests that sometimes it helps to turn from the abstract to the concrete.

you are always lost when the first recognition is a misrecognition

We are not well served by being lulled into unjustified expectations.

There is no use my not facing everything frankly. By facing everything frankly one gets everything quite cleared up.

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Never did he succeed in getting what he wanted out of life and he did not know what he wanted.

The best movies are simple.

It is a great misunderstanding to want to discover something worth living for.

It took me twenty years to hone my current definition of Gone.

It's fine to sometimes use these archetypes as a conduit to get information from the depths, but I recommend that you mostly use them as a conduit to bring clarity and equanimity to the depths. Become fascinated with how they move, and less tripped out with what they mean.

You simply notice which part of your void-triggered bum-out is emotional body sensation, which part is mental images, and which part is mental talk. Keep those clearly delineated.

The medicine for that is to remember that the main goal in meditation is not to get to certain good states, but rather to eliminate what gets in the way of those good states. If you do that, those good states will be available any time you wish.

meditation elevates a person's base level of focus. By focus, I mean the ability to attend to what's relevant in a given situation.

Is meditation really that valuable? Yes it is, because a person's base level of concentration is, in a sense, the most valuable thing that they have. Anything a person may want will be more easily attained if they are functioning from a high level of effortless focus. The entire range of human endeavors relies on concentration, and if your base level of concentration is elevated through practice, it means that you can function from a continuous state of extraordinary focus every day.