Quotes About Clarity

understanding a question is half an answer

The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.

To express oneself badly is not only faulty as far as the language goes, but does some harm to the soul.

How many things can I do without?

Everything is plainer when spoken than when unspoken.

The definition of terms is the beginning of wisdom.

Sometimes you have to lose your mind before you come to your senses.

If I save my insight, I don't attend to weakness of eyesight.

Justice. If only we knew what it was.

The more you know who you are and what you want, the less let things upset you

The secret is not to "think" about thoughts, but to allow them to flow through the mind, while keeping your mind free of afterthoughts.

Do not mistake understanding for realization, and do not mistake realization for liberation.

We need to make a very clear distinction between what is in our ego's self-interest and what is in our ultimate interest; it is from mistaking one for the other that all our suffering comes.

What is really baffling about life is that sometimes, despite all our confusion, we can also be really wise!

Our task is to strike a balance, to find a middle way, to learn not to overstretch ourselves with extraneous activities and preoccupations, but to simplify our lives more and more. The key to finding a happy balance in modern lives is simplicity.

Si eres demasiado listo, puedes perderte lo esencial».

If you are too clever, you could miss the point entirely.

It is meditation that slowly purifies the ordinary mind, unmasking and exhausting its habits and illusions, so that we can, at the right moment, recognize who we really are.

Meditation consists of being attentive to such a state of Rigpa, free from all mental constructions, whilst remaining fully relaxed, without any distraction or grasping. For it is said that 'Meditation is not striving, but naturally becoming assimilated into it.

space dissolves into luminosity":

thoughts are seen for what they truly are: fleeting and transparent, and only relative.

Meditation is the road to enlightenment.

to realize the nature of mind is to realize the nature of all things.

with time, patience, discipline, and the right training, our mind will begin to unknot itself and know its essential bliss and clarity.