Quotes About Clarity

God, this is why I can never live with women. They go off into corners and think, maybe it's this, maybe it's that. Ask, woman. Ask.

How dreadful the knowledge of the truth can be When there's no help in truth.

Whoever lost the truth has lost him/her self.

Just the inexplicable wants to be understood within the nonsense of emptiness that belongs to this world of illusion.

No one can surely know what knowledge is without the presence of truth.

The meaning of the words is necessary and not their extent.

Do not rummage through your thought's drawer because you will be ever more disorientated than they are.

Not the measure of words is necessary, but their meaning.

To breath through the truth is not the same with knowing it.

It could drive you mad to wake up to the fact that your whole life has been about chasing some false goal.

We must be trained to clarify minds, heal broken hearts, and create homes where sunshine will make an environment in which mental and spiritual health may be nurtured. Our schooling must not only teach us how to bridge the Niagara River gorge, or the Golden Gate, but must teach us how to bridge the deep gaps of misunderstanding and hate and discord in the world.

The more clearly you understand yourself and your emotions, the more you become a lover of what is.

Afflectus, qui passio est, desinit esse passio simulatque eius clarum et distinctam formamus ideam.

Late, I learned that when reason died, then Wisdom was born; before that liberation, I had only knowledge.

When reason died, then Wisdom was born.

There is nothing mind can do that cannot be better done in the mind's immobility and thought-free stillness.

When mind is still, then Truth gets her chance to be heard in the purity of the silence.

Knowledge gropes but meets not Wisdom's face.

The problem is not yours—it is your mind's only. Begin by disassociating yourself from your mind. Resolutely remind yourself that you are not the mind and that its problems are not yours.

The mind fixed in the awareness of the ONE is line a rock; unaffected by doubt, stable, secure

All that you can do is to raise the level of sattva. And then when sattva's level is high, we have to wait one moment, any moment knowledge can dawn there. All that you can do to have sunlight in this room, is to open the curtains and keep the windows open. And when dawn comes, it just dawns. You have the sunlight inside. If you close your curtains, even if it's midsummer afternoon, you will still find your room dark, because the gunas are cloudy.

Your head will be in the mud in a few years. Don't put mud in your head while you are still alive.

This is what is expected of a leader — better perception, clear observation and graceful expression.

Thoughts are like the clouds in the sky – clouds are not the sky. Like that thoughts come and go from you. Good thoughts, bad thoughts, so what? You say, "I am not this," let them come and go. By doing a little meditation, this becomes very clear to you. It is an experience.