Quotes About Clarity

All of our suffering in life is from saying we want one thing and doing another. —Debbie Ford

Before I built a wall I'd ask to know What I was walling in or walling out. ROBERT FROST

Like a great athlete, we must have a very clear vision of what we want to accomplish before we make a move. Vision, in preparation for an action, is as important as the action itself. —Marianne Williamson, Healing the Soul

Anger begs us to make a powerful commitment to what we will or will not tolerate in our lives any longer, making it our best friend if we can turn it in the right direction.

For many people religion can be so easy they stumble right over it.

I'm not an infant, Georgie." "I can see that." His bedclothes left little to the imagination.

When you are quiet, the silence blows against your mind and etches away everything that is soft and unimportant. What is left is what is real: pure awareness and the very hardest questions.

To see to the depth of a river, wade into still water. In the silent space under the slick of the world, the river clears. If you stand still too, so as not to wrinkle the water, you will see the shadows of minnows. You will smell sage and melting snow and you will notice, incised into the topography of the silt, little river channels pointing to the sea. And isn't this what you had hoped to find? A quiet place where everything comes clear and the Earth itself shows the way to the one thing.

If you don't know where you're going, you may miss it when you get there

Meditation is not spacing-out or running away. In fact, it is being totally honest with ourselves.

Meditation is an activity of the mental consciousness. It involves one part of the mind observing, analyzing, and dealing with the rest of the mind.

And remember this most of all: when it is darkest, that is when you can see the stars most clearly.

Any life lived attentively is disillusioning as it forces us to know us as we are.

Once, when I was describing to a friend from Syracuse, New York, a place on the plains that I love, a ridge above a glacial moraine with a view of almost fifty miles, she asked, "But what is there to see?" The answer, of course, is nothing. Land, sky, and the ever-changing light.

I could suddenly grasp that not ever having to think about what to wear was freedom, that a drastic stripping down to essentials in one's dress might also be a drastic enrichment of one's ability to focus on more important things.

No matter what passes, for good or ill, it is always better to know.

mirror. Daylight now awaken thee." With a loud clap of his hands, Mr.

The use of the passive voice to disguise one's role in the making of a decision is imprecise and obfuscatory. You're a better adman than that. Active verbs! Why not say 'I refuse to pay you fairly'?

I have to have some answers." "And what if there are no answers?" She held her ground. "Then at least I will have asked the questions.

There is nothing more difficult than simplicity,' Madame

There is nothing more difficult than simplicity,' Madame added, turning her back on them. 'And therefore, nothing more refined.

There's an art to life. Some people have talent for it. A boundless hope illuminates them. Where others are vague and tentative, they have only sharp, clear edges. Energy soars; lights burn brighter when they enter a room.

Reduce the complexities of life by eliminating the needless wants of life, and the labors of life will reduce themselves. Teale

Everyone knew the meaning of a thing didn't emerge until there'd been an ending and you could finally see how all the parts worked together.