Quotes About Clarity

A firm's income statement may be likened to a bikini—what it reveals is interesting but what it conceals is vital.

When I am perfectly clear, what is is what I want.

That's what inquiry is for, to break through stressful mythology. These

The Work is merely four questions; it's not even a thing. It has no motive, no strings. It's nothing without your answers. These four questions will join any program you've got and enhance it. Any religion you have—they'll enhance it. If you have no religion, they will bring you joy. And they'll burn up anything that isn't true for you. They'll burn through to the reality that has always been waiting.

When I listened within myself I saw that the world is what it is – nothing more, nothing less. Where reality is concerned, there is no "what should be." There is only what is, just the way it is, right now. The truth is prior to every story. And every story, prior to investigation, prevents us from seeing what's true.

This is true freedom: a mind that is no longer deceived by itself. Ruth:

If you are living your life and I am mentally living your life, who is here living mine? We're both over there. Being mentally in your business keeps me from being present in my own. I am separate from myself, wondering why my life doesn't work.

When you ask "Is it true?" for example, you may not really want to know. It could be that you'd rather stay with your statement than dive into the unknown. Blocking means rushing the process and answering with your conscious mind before the gentler polarity of mind (I call it "the heart") can answer.

We don't hear what someone said; we imagine what they meant.

Every no I say is a yes to myself. It feels right to me. People don't have to guess what I want or don't want, and I don't need to pretend. When you're honest about your yeses and noes, it's easy to live a kind life. People come and go in my life when I tell the truth, and they would come and go if I didn't tell the truth. I have nothing to gain one way, and everything to gain the other way. I don't leave myself guessing or guilty.

The unquestioned mind is the world of suffering.

If I believe I need something I don't have I'm insane.

As long as you think that the cause of your problem is "out there"—as long as you think that anyone or anything else is responsible for your suffering—the situation is hopeless. It

It's not up to my employees to accomplish what I want; it's up to me. I'm the boss. And the reason that firing you is so kind is that I've just released you from a torture chamber and allowed you to move into a space where you are qualified. And because of my clarity and kindness, the position is open for the right person to move into it. Anything less than that is masochism: it's unkind to you and to me.

We always know what we're supposed to be doing – we're doing it.

I use the word to mean a natural state of peace and clarity.

The more clearly you understand yourself and your emotions, the more you become a lover of what is. Baruch Spinoza

Forgiveness is discovering that what you thought happened, didn't—that there was never anything to forgive

People used to ask me if I was enlightened, and I would say, "I don't know anything about that. I'm just someone who knows the difference between what hurts and what doesn't.

referente a la realidad, no hay ningún «debería ser». Sólo hay lo que es, de la manera que es y en este mismo momento. La verdad es anterior a cualquier historia. Y cualquier historia, antes de la investigación, nos impide ver lo que es verdad.

Forgetting is like a great alchemy free of secrets, limpid, transforming everything to the present. In the end it makes our lives into this visible and tangible thing we hold in our hands, with no folds left hidden in the past.

Absurdity, only you are pure.

The void created by the failure to communicate is soon filled with poison, drivel and misrepresentation.

In the past, my brain babbling at such length had meant there was something it either didn't want to think about--which things numbered in the dozens right now--or it was working out some extreme cleverness that would at any moment leap out and surprise me. Much to my dismay, nothing leapt out.