Quotes About Clarity

Be like a Bird in Flight. Be able to see Before You, Around You, and Behind You At All Times. - Kailin Gow on Awareness

This Laotse illustrates by his favourite metaphor of the Vacuum. He claimed that only in vacuum lay the truly essential. The reality of a room, for instance, was to be found in the vacant space enclosed by the roof and walls, not in the roof and walls themselves. The usefulness of a water pitcher dwelt in the emptiness where water might be put, not in the form of the pitcher or the material of which it was made.

Darkness, real darkness, was more than just a lack of light.

Has your discerning mind just served to drive you mad?

Insights are achieved in silence.

Fear is the natural consequence of man not knowing himself.

You've always been told to fight for your freedom Of mind. But the truth is this: the greatest freedom in the world is freedom From mind.

If you think about something as you are looking at it, you will not have truly seen it. Thought stands as a barrier between You and The Experience.

If there is moral insanity," he said in a conspiratorial whisper, "then there may be the reverse, immoral sanity, if you will, that comes upon one suddenly, like a fever.

Simplicity and serenity are close friends of minimalism.

I'm loath to do interviews. What comes out is generally not what I meant or thought I was saying or thought they were asking.

If people want to really know what's up with me then they can read one of my interviews.

Doing interviews about my films really bothers me sometimes, because I have to speak directly and clearly about things I've intended to keep ambiguous, and in a way, I feel like I'm betraying my film.

I think sometimes people get distracted in interviews.

I don't like intrigue. I'm not a man of intrigue.

I feel like, if there's an elephant in the room, I'd really like to start off by introducing the elephant in the room. And sometimes it's funny.

When we allow distractions to wobble us away from ourselves, that's when our intuition starts to fade and our focus dulls.

I think you don't need to add anything into your life to be more intuitive, it's more a matter of taking away things that are distracting us from being intuitive.

As a showrunner, you can never be a 'maybe.' When I do movies, there is a lot of, 'Maybe' and, 'Let's investigate that.' But for TV, it has to be yes or no.

The best investments are the easiest ones to approve.

When you first meet an investor, you've got to be able to say in one compelling sentence - that you should practice like crazy - what your product does, so that the investor that you are talking to can immediately picture the product in their own mind.

I'm always looking for things that are so incredibly present that they become invisible.

The great thing about writing is that it has to work without that invisible layer of the reader's added knowledge.

Truth never pleads or compromises or wavers. It invites and awaits your acceptance.