Quotes About Clarity

I wrote it in one sitting early the next morning. When something assembles itself that fast, it's clear it's been composing itself somewhere in the unknowable back of the mind for a long time. It wanted to be written; it was restless for the racetrack; it galloped along once I sat down at the computer.

If it's not clear enough in the piece, I love it when people things to me they know and I'm interested in but don't yet know. It's when they explain things to me I know and they don't that the conversation goes awry.

Walking allows us to be in our bodies and in the world without being made busy by them. It leaves us free to think without being wholly lost in our thoughts

Don't mistake a lightbulb for the moon, and don't believe that the moon is useless unless we land on it.

Language, loose language, vague language becomes an out. Things happen.

Calling things by their true names cuts through the lies that excuse, buffer, muddle, disguise, avoid, or encourage inaction, indifference, obliviousness.

T]he right way to pray is not to beg, but to picture good things, to banish all bad things from our mind.

It's important that we clearly defined what we need from our home so we don't get distracted by what someone else might want if it were their home. (Happy Starts at Home: Getting the Life You Want by Changing the Space You've Got, Rebecca West)

So I went out alone into a soft day, with the dispelled winter lurking above in high dark clouds under which there ran quick fresh currents of air, and broken shafts of insistent sunshine that spread a grey clarity of light in which every colour showed sharp and strong.:

When we're deluded, there's a world to escape. When we're aware, there's nothing to escape.

There is so much baggage we burden ourselves with over the years that keeps us from seeing things the way they are. Some baggage we carry with us for a single thought, some for years, and some for lifetimes. But there isn't one piece that isn't our own creation.

The Buddha then repeated the meaning of this in verse: 1. "Distinguish units of letters / units of words and phrases / people who foolishly cling to these / are like elephants in a quagmire.

It has taken me most of my writing life to understand that my "writing place" is here where I live, and that my "writing voice" is just my regular old voice, the one I use all the time. I am aware that the most important things in my life and my work are so close to me that I didn't even fully recognize them for a long time.

Reginald Hill

Der Sturm klärt den trübsten Himmel auf. Nicht allein unser Charakter und noch weniger die Welt, in die wir hineingeboren werden, sind unser Schicksal. Im Hinterfragen und nicht im Glauben an eine Fügung finden wir Selbstvergewisserung.

Unser Leben ist wie ein Bogen eingespannt zwischen Geburt und Tod. Wer sich seines Endes dabei bewusst ist, kann intensiver leben, seine Ideen wie Pfeile genauer und weiter schießen. Diese Art Zielsicherheit gehört zur Kunst des Lebens. Sie besteht nicht nur darin, all seine Fähigkeiten optimal zu nutzen, sie gilt vielmehr selbst Ziel zu sein.

On ne sait jamais rien. Sauf ce qui est sans importance.

I love the laconic. Clearly, I am not of their number.

Your worst dungeon might be the room with the most windows.

People try to make names for things they don't understand

APRIL 17 WHATEVER WE SAY, let us speak clearly and to the point, in a voice that is calm and pleasant, unaffected by attachment or hatred. Look kindly at others, thinking : It is thanks to them that I shall attain Buddhahood.

Let your yes be yes and your no be no.

Richard A. LaFleur

When a style becomes opaque, when you look at it rather than looking through it, the schoolmarmly bell of reproach begins to ring.