Quotes About Clarity

Meditation, then, is bringing the mind home.

the original ground: the primordial purity of natural simplicity.

The practice of mindfulness, of bringing the scattered mind home, and so of bringing the different aspects of our being into focus, is called "Peacefully Remaining" or "Calm Abiding.

enlightenment is the real nature of our minds.

The whole of meditation practice can be essentialized into these three crucial points: bring your mind home, and release, and relax.

To release means to release mind from its prison of grasping

As we were walking the other day, she said she had often thought what a beautiful world this would be, when we should see every thing right side up. Now, we see every thing topsy-turvy, and all is confusion.

The purpose of practice is not to increase knowledge but to scrape the scales off the eyes, to pull the plugs out of the ears.

Dialogue is a lean language in which every word counts.

If all but one of the instruments on a surgeon's tray had been sterilized, that exception would be a danger to the patient. It can be said that one slip of point of view by a writer can hurt a story badly, and several slips can be fatal.

Who can be still while the muddy water settles? Who can remain still until the time comes for action?

A wise man's questions contain half the answer.

Intuition doesn't tell you what you want to hear; it tells you what you need to hear.

The golden moment when I'm not yet awake enough to remember that there are things I would rather forget.

Sometimes I just know things.

One of the risks of being quiet is that the other people can fill your silence with their own interpretation: You're bored. You're depressed. You're shy. You're stuck up. You're judgemental. When others can't read us, they write their own story—not always one we choose or that's true to who we are.

Wall of lies?' Proust muttered. 'Is that the one that borders the orchard of obsession that contains the tree of lunacy?

I was unsure how I felt about this. I used to worry about not knowing how I felt in certain situations, but I had more recently decided to treat them as a convenient opportunity to feel nothing at all.

It's funny that sometimes you can only describe something with perfect accuracy by being wildly inaccurate.

It is among the more pointless of my habits: wondering what I ought to do when there is no doubt about what I am going to do.

I think one of the worst mistakes we make is investing so much significance in details of our lives that don't matter at all. We can just choose. It doesn't matter all that much, and maybe there's no wrong choice.

When an author took the time and trouble to choose exactly the right words and arrange them in the right order, there was a possibility of genuine communication taking place, the thoughtful writer reaching the thoughtful reader. The opposite of what happened when two people opened their mouths and simply let their half-formed, incoherent thoughts spill out.

sometimes you don't need a goal in life, you don't need to know the big picture. you just need to know what you're going to do next!

sometimes you don't need a goal in life, you don't need to know the big picture. you just need to know what you're going to do next!