Quotes About Clarity

If only they had told us that it was all metaphor, I might have learned;

you'll have to be willing to embrace simplicity—while always resisting oversimplification.

If you do not grasp the difference between orange juice and detergent, brand names will at best help you drink the finest detergent on the market, and wash your dishes with the right amount of pulp.

Long ago Augustine simply summarized, "When the Bible speaks, God speaks.

The 3:00 A.M. test requires you to imagine a spouse, a roommate, or a parishioner waking you from a deep slumber with this simple question: "What's the sermon about today, Preacher?" If you cannot give a crisp answer, the sermon is probably half-baked. Thoughts you cannot gather at 3:00 A.M. are not likely to be caught by others at 11:00 A.M.

Too much information will make your brain choke.

Don't make rash decisions while the world is dark. Wait for the light to make all things clear.

though it's dreadfully ugly to the ear and why if you think hard about it, "Keep your personal belongings in visual contact at all times" is actually likely to be understood by a smaller percentage of people than, "Please keep an eye on your stuff at all times."   Nevertheless, there are imperatives behind using the language that way. And some of it is to be antihuman.

I have a lot on my mind and not a lot to do so it's going to come out, all of it, and then, then, it may begin to make a sort of sense

I'm just confused. Everything's confusing. Everything beautiful is far away, or maybe everything far away is beautiful. It's like how the grass is greener on the other side. Grass just looks nicer from the other side, you know? Grass where you're standing looks like dirt with hair.

There is a world of difference between being lost in the daylight and being lost in the dark.

Simplicity is eloquence

On the still calm waters of surrender the reflections of clarity appear

Surrender is not a weakness, or state of inaction, but rather a powerful state of pure energy; the energy of becoming your true purpose.

All things are accomplished by the meditative act of releasing illusions and simply becoming.

Let go of everything. That is how you get everything; you let go of everything.

The dreamer's untamed eye sees beyond the illusions to the heart of what is real.

The secret of life is to find out what one really wants.

Most of my advances were by mistake. You uncover what is when you get rid of what isn't.

Meditation brings wisdom; lack of meditation leaves ignorance. Know well what leads you forward and what hold you back, and choose the path that leads to wisdom.

Meditation brings wisdom; lack of mediation leaves ignorance. Know well what leads you forward and what hold you back, and choose the path that leads to wisdom

If we could see the miracle of a single flower clearly, our whole life would change.

Again a different meaning has to be understood.

To keep the body in good health is a duty, for otherwise we shall not be able to trim the lamp of wisdom, and keep our mind strong and clear. Water surrounds the lotus flower, but does not wet its petals.