Quotes About Insight

Los libros son espejos: sólo se ve en ellos lo que uno ya lleva dentro." ? Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind

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C?rÈ›ile sînt oglinzi: vezi în ele numai ceea ce ai deja în tine..

Every earthly revelation has a spiritual significance. I believe that if we humans were more spiritual, we wouldn't need visions. These are given whenever someone hasn't quite grasped an invisible spiritual lesson and needs a visual to go with it. We must learn to pull off this rough husk and feed on its sweet kernel.

It is important and salutary to speak of incomprehensible things,' they said, and so we did till dawn.

Living at once inside and outside the framework, Hester is able to see the frame.

I guess even really annoying people can be right sometimes.

By learning to identify your energy patterns, you will be able to gain a much greater vision of the meaning and purpose of your many experiences and relationships.

archetypes are the psychic lenses through which we view ourselves and the world around us.

John O'Donohue talks about the Buddhist tradition of the kalyana-mitra, or "noble friend." Your noble friend, he says, "will not accept pretension but will gently and very firmly confront you with your own blindness. No one can see life totally. As there is a blind spot in the retina of the human eye, there is also in the soul a blind side where you are not able to see. Therefore you must depend on the one you love to see for you what you cannot see yourself.

We write to find out what we didn't know we knew. We write to know deeper and truer. We write to connect the dots: a whole new constellation.

There are those who know and those who don't know. And for every ten thousand who don't know there's only one who knows. That's the miracle of all time--the fact that these millions know so much but don't know this.

For you see, when us people who know run into each other that's an event. It almost never happens. Sometimes we meet each other and neither guesses that the other is one who knows. That's a bad thing. It's happened to me a lot of times. But you see there are so few of us.

You don't know what it is to store up a lot of details and then come upon something real.

It wasn't like she was lonely and in fact – she had understood it all in every way except with her brain. Now she knew that she knew.

Afterward the Captain was to tell himself that in this one instant he knew everything. Actually, in a moment when a great but unknown shock is expected, the mind instinctively prepares itself by abandoning momentarily the faculty of surprise. In that vulnerable instant a kaleidoscope of half-guessed possibilities project themselves, and when the disaster has defined itself there is the feeling of having understood beforehand in some supernatural way.

He did not wholly understand the intricate play of ideas and the complex phrases, but as he read he sensed a strong, who purpose behind the words and he felt that he almost understood.

But remembering don't come to a man face forward—it corners around sideways.

She believed her ability was a kind of second sight, something she inherited from her father, who she said could forecast the weather and had predicted the war with Mexico.

what you don't know, you don't miss

Children are the ones that know exactly what's going on in the world, you know. They 'see' more than adults, 'believe' in more, are honest, and will always, 'always' let you know where you stand.

Have you ever not known something but known it at the same time?

Well isn't that one thing you're all the more wise for? Age has taught you something. It seems to me that you know the big secret. That nobody knows what's going on

Nobody can pretend to know what people want to read or hear or see. People rarely know it themselves; they only know it after the fact.