Quotes About Clarity

For ever... well... it droops the mouth. Till I Look up. There's one blue patch no smoke dares touch. Sky, clear, ineffable, alive with light, Always the same... Before, I never knew Rest and green peace.

language becomes ugly and inaccurate because our thoughts are foolish, but the slovenliness of our language makes it easier for us to have foolish thoughts.

Nothing is ever gained by allowing anger to have sway. When under its influence we lose the ability to think clearly and the forceful power that is in calmness. -Laura Ingalls Wilder: As A Farm Woman Thinks (3) (November 15, 1921).

Is there a way to choose a few things and do them well rather than do a lot of things halfway or not at all? Can we accept the fact that we may be in a season when we need to say no with the understanding that the season will not last forever?

Author Max De Pree has written, "The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality."1

Sometimes something happens even when nothing happens. Other times nothing happening is exactly what it sound like. I have a friend in the mental-health field who would tell me that at times it can be difficult to tell those two things apart.

Have something to say and say it as clearly as you can. That is the only secret of style.

My goal is simple. It is the complete understanding of the Universe.

I said it would be better if we weren't friends, not that I didn't want to be.

You must be blind if you can't see The gaping hole called reality.

para hacer un uso efectivo del modo difuso, primero debemos plantar la semilla en nuestro cerebro usando el modo enfocado.

I'm going to get hammered away for asking these questions. Fine. Hammer away. But don't pretend that's the same as answering.

Is a thing most fully itself in the darkness or the light?

You don't whack someone upside the head with a poker unless you mean it.

If you can't say in one sentence what you are trying to accomplish, then you won't achieve it.

It's hard to stay motivated when you're confused. When you simplify your life, it gathers focus. The more you can focus your life, the more motivated it gets.

With all thy getting, get understanding.

Since I've become a central banker, I've learned to mumble with great incoherence. If I seem unduly clear to you, you must have misunderstood what I said.

We often think we know things when in fact it's only our imagination taking us further and further away from what is actually happening. What we imagine then seems very real to us. Soon we're caught up in our imaginary longings and loathings. But if you're here - truly present - you realize there's nothing to run from or to go after. You can stay calm...Just be with this moment and see what's going on. (9)

As we live out of such a mind, we become generous, with no sense of tolerance. We become patient, with no sense of putting up with anything. We become compassionate, with no sense of separation. And we become wise, with no sense of having to straighten anyone out.

Buddha is not someone you pray to, or try to get something from. Nor is a buddha someone you bow down to. A buddha is simply a person who is awake—nothing more or less.

It's called enlightenment. It's nothing more or less than seeing things as they are rather than as we wish or believe them to be.

No words—Buddha's, mine, or anyone else's—can see for you.

How do you expect to get what you need if you don't open up your mouth and ask for it? Our lives are a direct reflection of our communication. If you are unwilling to communicate your needs to your employers, customers, partners, and family members, you can't blame them for not giving you what you need.