Quotes About Clarity

I am not a person who will mince words.

Irony is the hygiene of the mind.

Clean out a corner of your mind and creativity will instantly fill it.

Often leaders have the best intentions, but people cannot read their minds. That's why it's important to declare yourself: Tell people why you choose to lead and the code you live by.

It's difficult for your mindset when you don't know what you're training for.

Minimal is the word I'd use to describe how I live and dress, and it's also how I sing. I'm not a big fan of overemoting.

In a minimal interior, what you don't do is as important as what you do.

I have my own definition of minimalism, which is that which is created with a minimum of means.

When you drink your tea, just drink your tea. Enjoy drinking your tea. Please don't drink your suffering, your despair, your projects.

Fear is an element that prevents us from letting go. We're fearful that if we let go we'll have nothing else to cling to.

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When we are able to look deeply and let go of permanence, happiness, self, and purity, we arrive at insight. With this insight, instead of idealizing the object of our sensual desire, we can distinguish his or her true nature. We see that in essence he or she is impermanent, without a self, and impure—just like us.

The Buddha said many times. My teaching is like a finger pointing to the moon. Do not mistake the finger for the Moon

Sit in order to sit. Stand in order to stand. There is no goal or aim in sitting.

I think (too much), therefore I am (not there to live my life).

If we're not mindful, it's not tea that we're drinking but our own illusions and afflictions. If the tea becomes real, we become real. When we are able to truly meet the tea, at that very moment we are truly alive.

Cultivating a strong training in meditation and mindfulness is not an opiate to escape what's going on but a way for us to truly still the mind and look deeply, in order to see ourselves and the world clearly.

usually discover that we've had a wrong perception

My child, you should practice for your mind to be like water. When people put fragrant oils or milk into the water, it does not rejoice, and when people put excrement, mud, or urine into the water, the water is not angry, because the water has a tremendous capacity of acceptance and transformation. Water can purify everything.

Ignorance is in each cell of our body and our consciousness. It's like a drop of ink diffused in a glass of water. That ignorance stops us from seeing reality; it pushes us to do foolish things that make us suffer even more

Concentration, samadhi in Sanskrit, is a powerful force that you can generate to make a breakthrough, to see clearly what is there and understand its true nature.

Are you sure of your perceptions?" he asked us. 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?" There is a river of perceptions in you. You should sit down on the bank of this river and contemplate your perceptions.

Keep looking into the truth in order to have the understanding that nirv??a is the greatest happiness.