Quotes About Insight

According to research, confusion has the potential to motivate, lead to deep learning, and trigger problem solving.

English was the only class I felt like I might be able to keep up with him, since I'd always been a big reader. Books were so much easier to relate to than people.

We need to remember the past so that we can more clearly see where we are going.

Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment.

you will never know what your husband looks like unless you try to draw him, and you will never understand him unless you try to write his story.

With every sentence you write, you have learned something.

Whenever possible, you gotta try to see the goings-on of life through more eyes than just your own, because that can help you see things more clearly.

People who ask our advice almost never take it. Yet we should never refuse to give it, upon request, for it often helps us to see our own way more clearly.

In the absence of data, we will always make up stories. In fact, the need to make up a story, especially when we are hurt, is part of our most primitive survival wiring. Mean making is in our biology, and our default is often to come up with a story that makes sense, feels familiar, and offers us insight into how best to self-protect.

The beauty of the ragamuffin gospel lies in the insight it offers into Jesus: the essential tenderness of His heart, His way of looking at the world, His mode of relating to you and me. 'If you really want to understand a man, don't just listen to what he says, but watch what he does.

Without the sharing of personal experience, prophetic preaching is impossible.

Self-deception is the enemy of wholeness because it prevents us from seeing ourselves as we really are. It covers up our lack of growth in the Spirit of the truthful One and keeps us from coming to terms with our real personalities.

I think we read memoirs hoping that someone has found an answer in his or her own life that can make sense of ours. The

Blessed are not the enlightened whose every question has been answered and who are delighted with their own sublime insight, the mature and ripe ones whose one remaining action is to fall from the tree. Blessed, rather, are the chased, the harassed who must daily stand before my enigmas and cannot solve them.

It remains a startling story to those who never understand that the men and women who are truly filled with light are those who have gazed deeply into the darkness of their imperfect existence.

Oh, the mystery of what your children know, the scope and terrifying beauty of their perception.

Whereas some schools of Buddhism distinguish more sharply between the preparatory practice of concentration and the liberating practice of insight, Zen views concentration and insight as two sides of the same coin: when the mind is cleared, settled, and focused, it naturally attains insight and manifests its innate wisdom.

Don't flee from boredom. Go all the way into it; go all the way through the bottom of boredom!

Tennyson said that if we could but understand a single flower we might know who we are and what the world is. Perhaps he was trying to say that there is nothing, however humble, that does not imply the history of the world and its infinite concatenation of causes and effects. —JORGE LUIS BORGES, "The Zahir

Soon she came to understand how essential it was to know these things. That was when she began to read.

Ik kende hem, zoals ik Telaga Hideung kende – een spiegelende oppervlakte. De diepte peilde ik nooit.

Er zal pas sprake zijn van emancipatie, wanneer het niet meer kan gebeuren dat mensen (mannen noch vrouwen) object zijn van begeerte-zonder-genegenheid of van gevoel-zonder-inzicht, van welke benadering dan ook zonder respect voor de persoon.

Those who have eyes see little .

The most essential gift for a good writer is a built-in, shockproof, shit detector.