Quotes About Insight

The purpose of life is to see," the writer Jack Turner

When one of us says, 'Look there's nothing out there,' what we are really saying is, 'I cannot see.

men that age aren't known for their superior judgment.

Always pay attention to your dreams, her mother had taught her. They're voices telling you what you already know, whispering advice you haven't yet heeded.

septuagenarian.

No information is useless. It's just a key waiting for the right lock to open.

Now they were probably telling one another: Yeah, I knew something wasn't right. Everyone's brilliant in retrospect.

The more you understand, the more you love; the more you love, the more you understand.

Once you can communicate with yourself, you'll be able to communicate outwardly with more clarity. The way in is the way out.

We can condition our bodies and minds to happiness with the five practices of letting go, inviting positive seeds, mindfulness, concentration, and insight.

Confucius said,To know that you don't know is the beginning of knowing.

What most people call power Buddhists call cravings. The five cravings are for wealth, fame, sex, fancy food, and lots of sleep. In Buddhism, we speak of the five true powers, five kinds of energy. The five powers are faith, diligence, mindfulness, concentration, and insight. The five powers are the foundation of real happiness; they are based on concrete practices

If we study it is not to store up knowledge but to deepen our understanding. Our understanding, in turn, can only deepen as we put it into action.

In the light of Buddhist meditation, love is impossible without understanding.

When you are calm, when you are still, you see things as they truly are. You don't distort things. When you are not calm, it's easy to get confused and angry. All of us make a lot of mistakes and create a lot of suffering when we are not calm.

Views, knowledge, and even wisdom are solid, and can block the way of understanding.

This is Buddhist meditation-to penetrate, to be one with, in order to really understand.

In what spirit is this explanation given? Without being caught up in signs, just according to things as they are, without agitation.

When our beliefs are based on our own direct

He whispered to himself, "If I do not find the Way, I will not return to Kapilavatthu.

What we lack is not an ideology or a doctrine that will save the world. What we lack is mindfulness of what we are, of what our situation really is.

Precepts in Buddhism are not imposed by some outside authority. They arise from our own insight based on the practice of mindfulness. To be attached to the form without understanding the essence is to fall into what Buddhism calls attachment to rules.

To see one in all and all in one is to break through the great barrier which narrows one's perception of reality

Without reason, there is no concentration. Without concentration, there is no reason.