Quotes About Clarity

Our purpose clarifies our goals; Challenges refocus new opportunities.

there will always be pressures and time sin your life when you'll need answers, but coke and the rest offer nothing -- no outlet, no information. And, believe me, you're only as good as your information.

Meter, melody, and everything else that relates to the construction of a song are secondary. All that is necessary is to have something to say and to say it as quickly as possible. Irving Berlin

I think people are smart enough to sort it out. They know when they're watching one of these food fight shows where journalists sit around and yell and scream at each other, versus serious issue reporting.

She likes a quote by Dolly Parton: "Decide who you are, and then do it on purpose.

Buddhas don't practice nonsense.

Not thinking about anything is Zen. Once you know this, walking, sitting, or lying down, everything you do is Zen.

But people of the deepest understanding look within, distracted by nothing. Since a clear mind is the Buddha, they attain the understanding of a Buddha without using the mind.

Not engaging in ignorance is wisdom.

Freeing oneself from words is liberation.

The farther away you are from the truth, the more the hateful and pleasurable states will arise. There is also self—deception.

Daily life is always extraordinary when rendered precisely.

Awareness and consciousness are suddenly clear and expansive, undisturbed, and undivided by thought. The experience may be accompanied by great insight, ecstatic bliss, or a mystical infusion of light, love, and vision.

it is a natural, human potential that offers greater clarity, wisdom, and peace to us personally, to the culture we live in, and to the earth as a whole.

We thought that we had the answers, it was the questions we had wrong.

Belief and confusion are not mutually exclusive; I believe that belief gives you the direction in the confusion. But you don't see the full picture. That's the point. That's what faith is. You can't see it. It comes back to instinct. Faith is just up the street. Faith and instinct, you can't just rely on them. You have to beat them up. You have to pummel them to make sure they can withstand it, to make sure they can be trusted.

The elephant in the room" is a phrase I enjoy, having at different times been either elephant or room. We can lose ourselves in situations or conversations and miss the obvious. We're looking for someone to save us or a solution to a problem, and they're right in front of us hiding in plain sight.

Climbing into the ring, the best-prepared fighter is the one who has tried to understand their opponent. Especially if it's yourself.

The mind must be in a state of wisdom to understand wisdom.

He knew the way he spoke wasn't right, but it was the only way the words came. The thoughts in his head were precise and clear, their meaning was absolutely obvious. But when they emerged in the form of phrases, the superfluous husk simply fell away of its own accord and only the essential idea was left. Probably sometimes rather more fell away than ought to.

He knew the way he spoke wasn't right, but it was the only way the words came. The thoughts in his head were precise and clear, their meaning was absolutely obvious. But when they emerged in the form of phrases, the superfluous husk simply fell away of its own accord and only the essential idea was left. Probably sometimes rather more fell away than ought to." Excerpt From EF06 - The State Counsellor

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Le plus clair de mon temps je le passe à l'obscurcir.

Je passe le plus clair de mon temps à l'obscurcir parce que la lumière me gêne