Quotes About Insight

Your life is your practice. Your spiritual practice does not occur someplace other than in your life right now, and your life is nowhere other than where you are. You are looking for answers, insight, and wisdom that you already possess. Live the life in front of you, be the life you are, and see what you find out for yourself.

The present is all you can truly know of any man, and even of that you can glimpse only a fragment, however long you remain in his company.

Even I don't know what you're doing, and I know everything.

there are three kinds of people in the world: those who don't know and don't know they don't know; those who don't know and do know they don't know; and those who know and know how much they still don't know.

The wisest man is the silent one. Examine his actions. Judge him by them.

Omnipotent not omniscient. We are frequently blinded by how much we see.

See things for what they are. Drop your blinders and raise the sewer to eye level. Admit that your swimming in shit. If you don't acknowledge the turd heading down the drain towards you; you can't dodge it.

Pessimists are only pessimists when they're wrong. When we're right, the world calls us prophets.

But if there's one thing I've learned in life it's this: assume makes an ass out of 'u' and 'me

if you're making sense, you've just unmade confusion.

There are no coincidences in this world... You must see with the eagle's eye. You must detach, lift above a conundrum, and map the terrain of it. Everything happens for a reason, if you can but discern the pattern.

There are many realities pocketed away in the one we call our own. Most go blindly about their lives and never see beyond the ends of their noses.

Ä°nsan neye dönüÅŸtüÄŸünü fark etmeyince, rengini de fark etmiyor

It wasn't an 'event.' It was a motherfucking revelation.

I know who the fuck you are," he clips the words out coldly. "You're the only one that doesn't. Dani could have anticipated the Hag's movements. You could not. Jada.

Chicks. Christ. They just don't get it sometimes.

You like me." "I do not," she lied. "But I didn't mean to hurt your feelings." He was undaunted. "Aye, you like me, lass. I can tell. You called me by my given name and you are frowning, with dewy eyes. I forgive you for being cruel and thoughtless.

You don't see the forest for the trees.

Because I could see the truth. Sometimes it's there in the flaws. And other times it's there in too much perfection.

I decided to try a stab in the dark, figuring anyone who worked with so many books surely knew a little of something about a lot of everything.

I'm used to feeling like I'm the only one sees the hard things coming, and I'm always angling to skew the odds in my favor. It's nice to know somebody else is preparing, too.

Life is an iceberg and I've only been seeing the tip.

She had a sudden insight that wherever she was, women didn't usually wear jeans. Perhaps not even trousers. His jaw tensed and his breathing quickened noticeably. He looked every inch a predator, poised in the heightened alertness that precedes the kill. "They're all I have!" she said defensively. He raised his hands in a conciliatory gesture. "I doona wish to discuss it, lass. Not now. Perhaps never.

You watch her walking around, smiling, moving different than she moved before she went to him, and you know something happened up there that made her feel more alive than she ever felt before, that she got to be the way you hope you'll get to be with a man, even if it's just once in your life. A man has to see women a certain way for it to be that way.