Quotes About Insight

The writer's job is to write the screenplay and keep the reader turning pages, not to determine how a scene or sequence should be filmed. You don't have to tell the director and cinematographer and film editor how to do their jobs. Your job is to write the screenplay, to give them enough visual information so they can bring those words on the page into life, in full 'sound and fury,' revealing strong visual and dramatic action, with clarity, insight, and emotion.

When you're in the paradigm, you can't see the paradigm.

Many times you may feel the urge to sit down and start writing a screenplay but you don't really know what to write about. So you go looking for a subject. Just know that when you're looking for your subject, your subject is really looking for you. You'll find it someplace, at some time, probably when you're least expecting it. It will be yours to follow through on or not, as you choose.

Then I remembered something I'd read in a Kurt Vonnegut novel: when you're trying to find the answer to a question, the answer is in the question.

In every area of life everyone is capable of seeing from a higher perspective than they do now. You are never stuck. You're simply limited by the level you are seeing from. Limitation is always illustion. Just wait. Relax. Stay still. Wait until the wisdom talks to you, as it will. - Syd Banks

From a recording: If you're listening to this in your car and you find yourself in a beautiful feeling, roll down your window, pop the tape out of the tape player, and throw it out the window. Stay with the feeling, and it will teach you everything you need to know.

That the deaf man cannot hear the sound of the crashing ocean waves, or the blind man cannot see the beauty of an autumn sky, does not mean the sea and the sky do not exist. So, like the blind man, close your eyes. Like the deaf man, block your ears; go inside and realize…that which you seek has been there, within you, all along. This is when the blind will see and the deaf will hear.

Some of my most precious moments of insight have been those in which I have seen clearly that gratitude is the only possible response. (Sylvia Boorstein, from You Don't Look Buddhist)

Perhaps... these days of less sunlight are opportunities for more contemplative time, more looking deeply to see what can only be seen in the dark.

Our first teacher is our own heart-Cheyenne

If a man is as wise as a serpent, he can afford to be as harmless as a dove—Cheyenne

How I Know What I Know

If we wonder often, the gift of knowledge will come. –Arapaho

I plan to learn enough to read you like a book.

Me he quitado la venda de los ojos, Pel. Y ahora, por primera vez, veo lo que me estaba perdiendo

I don't believe I will ever understand men. The more I learn about them, the less they make sense

If you think I don't spend a good percentage of every day trying to figure you out, you're not paying attention.

I felt wise and cynical as all hell.

I want to taste and glory in each day, and never be afraid to experience pain; and never shut myself up in a numb core of nonfeeling, or stop questioning and criticizing life and take the easy way out. To learn and think: to think and live; to live and learn: this always, with new insight, new understanding, and new love.

To learn and think; to think and live; to live and learn: this always, with new insight, new understanding, and new love.

Stupid pupil, it has to take everything in.

Doreen had intuition. Everything she said was like a secret voice speaking straight out of my own bones.

I am but one more drop in the great sea of matter, defined, with the ability to realize my existence.

Then my gaze slid over the people to the blaze of green beyond the diaphanous curtains, and I felt as if I were sitting in the window of an enormous department store. The figures around me weren't people, but shop dummies, painted to resemble people and propped up in attitudes counterfeiting life.