Quotes About Insight

The real problem is usually two or three questions deep. If you want to go after someone's problem, be aware that most people aren't going to reveal what the real problem is after the first question.

Study the past if you want to define the future.

We are only as blind as we want to be.

You don't build it for yourself. You know what the people want and you build it for them.

No one wants to know how clever you are. They don't want an insight into your mind, thrilling as it might be. They want an insight into their own.

Carefully watch how people live, get an intuitive sense as to what they might want and then go with it. Don't do market research.

There are two types of teachers. Those who tell you what you want to hear and those who tell you what you don't want to hear.

Important things are inevitably cliche, but nobody wants to admit that.

Look deep inside the eyes of a woman, see the man you want to be.

Today, I'm very happy about myself, because I realized my dreams. I learned how to understand what people want.

Life is so simple, really. Think through what people want, watch what others fail to give them, and provide it. Then bill'em.

What allows us to step into the future is stepping back into the past.

With others' help and input, we can see more of who we are and who we've been than with only a limited, flat, one-dimensional self-view.

Time spent on reconnaissance is seldom wasted.

The inner aim of thought is never fully realized until it ripens into vocal utterances through which others can have access- albeit indirect- to our personal experience. In fact,an inner experience only achieves true completeness when it has been spoken. No matter how profound an insight one may gain, as long as it stays inarticulately concealed within an introspective silence, it remains one-dimensional and incomplete.

Every adversity has value if one searches for it.

A man may be theologically knowing and spiritually ignorant.

1. First of all, "ask for guidance." As it turns out, this is remarkably important, and it's something most of us almost always forget to do. It seems that there is something about actually asking that jump-starts a process. And sometimes asking repeatedly is required. Even begging.

2. Then (something else we usually forget) "listen for the response." It helps, says Bede, to "actively listen." To turn over every stone in your search for clues to the response. These responses usually come in subtle ways—through

In effect, then, Beethoven became a musical seer. Like the mystical rishis of ancient India, he perceived aspects of reality that were beyond the perceptual range of ordinary people. Very few of his contemporaries could understand the musical leaps he had made. And of course, not seeing the genius of his refined perception, his critics called him "mad.

René Guénon. Introduction to the Study of Hindu Doctrines. Sophia Perennis: Hillsdale, NY, 2001

Know your own bone: gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it, and gnaw it still.

After termination with her analyst in London, Marion would henceforth let her life be guided by an ongoing analysis of her own dream world. "Once we know what the dream world is," she writes, "to be without it is to be rudderless. The dream continually corrects our waking course." Marion, like Jung, came to believe that dreams are the path—circular and meandering as it is—to a knowledge of the exiled self.

Never judge someone by the way he looks or a book by it's covered; for inside those tattered pages, there's a lot to be discovered.