Quotes About Insight

The only barrier to apprehending the truth is our own unwillingness to see the world as it is instead of how we prefer it to be.

There was no better way to understand life than to live it—if not through your own life, then through another's. There was once a man who owned a field. Brilliant, brilliant, brilliant. Not to read was to turn your back on the wisest minds.

To know. Not to know about.

Maybe he does show himself to us, but we don't see. Maybe it's not our senses that are the problem, but our minds.

I would like my readers to close the cover at the end and say: Wow, I never thought of it like that before!

My mind filled with a knowing that set my bloodstream on fire and transported me to a different kind of awareness. With my eyes open to the kingdom of heaven, I saw.

See with lamps on, Christy. Eyes wide open. See yourself as beautiful. The

No leer es dar la espalda a las mentes más sabias.

The eye is the lamp of the body. If your eye is clear, your whole body will be full of light. But if your eye is bad, your whole body will be full of darkness.

But you too can see truth. You too can be freed from the blindness of fear and see with new eyes. In that new sight, you will see light instead of darkness.

But you too can see truth. You too can be freed from the blindness of fear and see with new eyes. In that new sight, you will see light instead of darkness. When you see the light, you will know love instead of fear because in love, there is no fear. In love, there is no record of wrong. Unless you know that love, everything you believe is worthless and gains you nothing, Christian or not. I come as a way-shower. But it's up to you to follow the way.

The history of the living world can be summarised as the elaboration of ever more perfect eyes within a cosmos in which there is always something more to be seen.

The educator's job is to ask...well, what IS she like?

What I was actually doing was observing.....I feel like my local focus frees me from the global bias that gets in the way of top-down thinkers

Show me a person who hasn´t known any sorrow and I´ll show you a superficial.

They're not as smart as we are, they're not as intuitive as we are, and they certainly don't need to know about fifty percent of what we do." She looked around. "He didn't hear that, did he?

If you know a person's history, you can use it to help predict what that person might do. A person's history can be the key to understanding his motivation for committing a crime.

You know, sometimes, the first thing that comes to mind is the right thing, no matter how bizarre or improbable it seems," Clare said. "It could be your intuition was trying to tell you something.

Hindsight may be a wonderful thing, but foresight is even better. What a pity, then, that people have foresight only in hindsight.

The writer must be universal in sympathy and an outcast by nature: only then can he see clearly.

The more you learn, the less you fear. "Learn" not in the sense of academic study, but in the practical understanding of life.

Vanity can easily overtake wisdom. It usually overtakes common sense.

Julian Hawthorne

Also in this He shewed me a little thing, the quantity of an hazel-nut, in the palm of my hand; and it was as round as a ball. I looked thereupon with eye of my understanding, and thought: What may this be?