Quotes About Clarity

How could I say for certain that I wasn't, if I couldn't say for certain that a curtain wasn't a mountain range.

Luchar por una idea sin tener una idea de uno mismo es una de las cosas más peligrosas que se pueden hacer.

Understanding demands silence.

Y luego, cuando ante ti se abran muchos caminos y no sepas cuál recorrer, no te metas en uno cualquiera al azar: siéntate y aguarda. Respira con la confiada profundidad con que respiraste el día en que viniste al mundo, sin permitir que nada te distraiga: aguarda y aguarda más aún. Quédate quieta, en silencio, y escucha a tu corazón. Y cuando te hable, levántate y ve donde él te lleve.

La comprensión exige silencio.

I don't know why I'm still here. All right? And I'd just like to figure it out before I go.

the simple way of speaking the truth is by not lying. If you do not lie, you are speaking the truth. But if you are trying to speak the truth and you do not know what truth is, then you are making your own truth. You say my truth is my truth and I am speaking the truth and you should listen to me. That is confusion. Do not lie. By not lying, you practice speaking the truth.

Even the times I thought I was having casual sex, turned out I wasn't.

Confusion is the first step toward clarity

The writer's job is to write the screenplay and keep the reader turning pages, not to determine how a scene or sequence should be filmed. You don't have to tell the director and cinematographer and film editor how to do their jobs. Your job is to write the screenplay, to give them enough visual information so they can bring those words on the page into life, in full 'sound and fury,' revealing strong visual and dramatic action, with clarity, insight, and emotion.

La cosa più difficile quando si scrive è sapere che cosa scrivere

When you're in the paradigm, you can't see the paradigm.

Before you write one shot, one word of dialogue on paper, you must know four things: your ending, your beginning, Plot Point I, and Plot Point II.

The hardest thing about writing is knowing what to write.

Then I remembered something I'd read in a Kurt Vonnegut novel: when you're trying to find the answer to a question, the answer is in the question.

In every area of life everyone is capable of seeing from a higher perspective than they do now. You are never stuck. You're simply limited by the level you are seeing from. Limitation is always illustion. Just wait. Relax. Stay still. Wait until the wisdom talks to you, as it will. - Syd Banks

Some of my most precious moments of insight have been those in which I have seen clearly that gratitude is the only possible response. (Sylvia Boorstein, from You Don't Look Buddhist)

Effort, concentration, and mindfulness are the internal ways in which the mind restores itself from being out of balance and lost in confusion to a condition of ease, clarity, and wisdom NO external action needs to happen. [p. 17]

I pray to hear Him clearly, and to speak His truth just as clearly

When I propose, angel, trust me, you'll know it.

Why even call it a fuck? Why not be clear and call it a seminal emission in a preapproved orifice?

Eva: there's so much out there for you. You just don't know it yet. gideon: I don't need anything else. I get out of bed every morning and face the world because you're in it. Because of you, the world makes sense to me in a way it didn't before. I have a place now. WITH YOU

Are you sleeping with anyone? ....... Because I want to fuck you, Eva. I need to know what's standing in my way, if anything.

I require distance from the past in order to grasp the future.