Quotes About Clarity

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Practice the non-practice practice.

We move about life in our own corpse because we are not touching life in depth. We live a kind of artificial life, with lots of plans, lots of worries and anger. Never are we able to establish ourselves in the here and now and live our lives deeply. We have to wake up! We have to make it possible for the moment of awareness to manifest. This is the practice that will save us—this is the revolution.

The mind is like a sharp knife that cuts reality into separate pieces.

Things are dynamic and living, while our concepts of them are static and poor.

Much of our thinking is unnecessary.

I urge you to write this phrase down on a card and put it up on the wall of your room: "Are you sure of your perceptions?

What we lack is not an ideology or a doctrine that will save the world. What we lack is awareness of what we are, of what our true situation really is.

El único modo de liberarnos del miedo y ser realmente felices consiste en reconocerlo y ver profundamente en su fuente. Dejemos de querer escapar del miedo, permitamos que aflore en nuestra conciencia y mirémoslo directa y fijamente a los ojos.

True understanding happens when we dismantle the barrier between the object of understanding and the subject of understanding.

When we can see the non-rose elements when looking at a rose, it is safe for us to use the word rose. When we look at A and see that A is not A, we know that A is truly A. Then A is no longer a dangerous obstacle for us.

Direct experience is the only way.

You have to be clear-minded. In the context of war, we grew deeper in our practice of nonviolence. Nonviolence is not a set of techniques that you can learn with your intellect. Nonviolent action naturally arises from the compassion, lucidity, and understanding you have within.

Breathing in, I know I am breathing in. Breathing out, I know I am breathing out.

In Buddhism, knowledge constitutes the greatest obstacle to Awakening.

En esta comida veo, con toda claridad, la presencia del universo entero sustentando mi existencia.

Most of the time, our head is so full of thoughts that we have no space to listen to ourselves or anyone else.

Hay dos clases de nudos. El primero es el de nuestras opiniones e ideas, nuestros conceptos y conocimientos. Todo el mundo tiene opiniones e ideas, pero cuando nos apegamos a ellas, dejamos de ser libres y no podemos ver la verdad en la vida. La segunda clase de nudo es el de nuestras aflicciones y hábitos de sufrimiento, como el miedo, la ira, la discriminación, la desesperación y la arrogancia. Para ser libres tenemos que deshacer esos nudos.

The first mindfulness training is important to help us remain free people. Freedom is above all else freedom from our own notions and concepts. If we get caught in our notions and concepts, we can make ourselves suffer and we can also make those we love suffer.

After the Jon Fitch fight, about being confused, the Lord's really given me clarity and shined a light on where he wants me to go, how I could answer the calling he's given me.

The art of the three-minute song is more like journalism than writing a big 400-page book. You want to be brief, you want to make sense right yen and there. And sometimes that takes a bit of work.

I have a degree in journalism, which is something that I make very clear very frequently just so people are aware of it. I went to school to write... Editorial integrity is very important to me.

Journalists never make it clear when you are joking.

If you want to help somebody, make sure you're coming from a place of clarity and complete non-judgment; that way, you can begin to understand their journey, too.