Quotes About Clarity

When you study Buddhism, you should have a general house cleaning of your mind. You must take everything out of your room and clean it thoroughly. If it is necessary, you may bring everything back in again. You may want many things, so one by one you can bring them back. But if they are not necessary, there is no need to keep them.

When you do zazen, you're not trying to achieve a totally empty mind. That would be impossible. But you are trying to avoid the deliberate habitual manipulation of thoughts and images we usually engage in.

The practice of zazen can help you gradually clear away the layers of mental noise that prevent you from seeing how the things you're going through now relate to the stuff you did in the past.

Chasing after fantasies is always a bad idea. Stick with reality. Reality's all you've got. But here's the real secret, the real miracle: it's enough.

and who compound that error by conflating their sense of truth

A plan is simply what you decide to consciously & consistently focus on.

Solutions come from focusing on where you want to be, not whats right in front of you.

Perspective prys her once-weighty eyes and it gives you wings.

You act as if there's blinders on your eyes!

Sometimes I feel the fear of uncertainty stinging clear.

Unknowing ignorance is preferable to informed stupidity.

A person knows when they're in darkness, even when they can't see. -Nightblood

Sometimes, the answers we need don't match the questions we're asking." He looked up at me. "And sometimes, the coward makes fools of wiser men.

It's not a lie," Shallan said, "if everyone understands and knows what it means." "Mm. Those are some of the best lies.

Sometimes, the answers we need don't match the questions we're asking.

Do you know how many grand romances would have avoided tragedy if the hero had thought, "You know, maybe I should ask her if she likes me first"?

Wasing the where of what

Is there some kind of subtext to our current conversation? Because, as you might know, I am absolutely terrible with subtext. It gives me a headache." "You can't get headaches," "Well I can't get subtext either. Far too subtle for me.

I'm not exactly a "there are nuances to this situation" type of girl. I'm more of an "if it's still moving, you didn't use enough ammunition" type of girl.

It frightens me," Shallan said, "because we all see the world by some kind of light personal to us, and that light changes our perception. I don't see clearly. I want to, but I don't know if I ever truly can.

I sense a very large but. " "Funny, because right in front of me, I see a—" "Watch it.

I ain't grouchy," Teft snapped. "I just have a low threshold for stupidity.

There were great advantages to being unimportant.

The less we see chaos, and the more we see the pattern , the better we're going to be at understanding just what we fight -- and just how to defeat it.