Quotes About Insight

I am aware, sure, I am aware. Catastrophically aware.

I had imagined a kind, ugly, intuitive man looking up and say, 'Ah!' in an encouraging way, as if he could see something I couldn't, and then I would find words to tell him how I was so scared, as if I were being stuffed farther and farther into a black, airless sack with no way out.

She looked terrible, but very wise.

I wanted to see as much as I could. I liked looking on at other people in crucial situations. If there was a road accident or a street fight or a baby pickled in a laboratory jar for me to look at, I'd stop and look so hard I never forgot it. I certainly learned a lot of things I never would have learned otherwise this way, and even when they surprised me or made me sick I never let on, but pretended that's the way I knew things were all the time.

I am an observer.

He had what no American man I've ever met has had, and that's intuition.

All the old ladies I ever knew wanted to teach me something, but I suddenly didn't think they had anything to teach me.

I liked looking on at other people in crucial situations... I certainly learned a lot of things this way, and even when they surprised me or made me sick I never let on, but pretended that's the way I knew things were all the time.

I certainly learned a lot of things I never would have learned otherwise this way, and even when they surprised me or made me sick I never let on, but pretended that's the way I knew things were all the time.

There are times when a feeling of expectancy comes to me, as if something is there, beneath the surface of my understanding, waiting for me to grasp it. It is the same tantalizing sensation when you almost remember a name, but don't quite reach it.

I must write about the things of the world with no glazing." She fought doggedly against the great suction into her own subjectivity: "I shall perish if I can write about no one but myself." Something like this went through nearly every entry in her journal over long periods. In

my inspiration is paintings and not music when I go to some other art form . . . I see these things very clearly.

There are some people who see a great deal and some who see very little in the same things.

The second element of change is understanding. By understanding where your "way of thinking" originates, you can recognize that it has to come from outside you.

first element of change is awareness.

Harv, if you're not doing as well as you'd like, all that means is there's something you don't know.

There is no method but to be very intelligent.

We had the experience but missed the meaning, an approach to the meaning restores the experience

Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge.

Spirituality is not just about having a flash of insight or epiphany; it is about building a foundation that will change you inside and out.

I learn a great deal by merely observing you, and letting you talk as long as you please, and taking note of what you do not say.

We had the experience but missed the meaning. And approach to the meaning restores the experience in a different form.

Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?

Humor is also a way of saying something serious.