Quotes About Insight

We can learn many practices to lessen our sadness and our suffering, but the cream of enlightened wisdom is the insight of no birth, no death.

Concentration, samadhi in Sanskrit, is a powerful force that you can generate to make a breakthrough, to see clearly what is there and understand its true nature.

Without understanding, your love is not true love. You must look deeply in order to see and understand the needs, aspirations, and suffering of the one you love.

The kung-an is the lamp-shade, while Zen is the lamp itself.

When people in intimate relationships have mindfulness, concentration, and insight, their relationships have an element of holiness. Sexual intimacy shouldn't occur before there is communion, understanding, and sharing on the emotional and spiritual level.

When you think, The sun of awareness has gone out in me, at that moment it relights itself, faster than the speed of light.

Nothing can be born from nothing. When we touch the sheet of paper deeply, when we touch the cloud deeply, when we touch our grandmother deeply, we touch the nature of no birth and no death, and we are free from sorrow. We already recognize them in many other forms. This is the insight that helped the Buddha become serene, peaceful, and fearless.

With mindfulness, concentration, and insight, we can free ourselves from feelings of restlessness and craving, and realize that, right now, we already have more than enough conditions to be happy.

Right View cannot be described. We can only point in the correct direction.

When we want to understand something, we cannot just stand outside and observe it. We have to enter deeply into it and be one with it in order to really understand. If we want to understand a person, we have to feel his feelings, suffer his sufferings, and enjoy his joy. The word comprehend is made up of the Latin roots cum, which means with, and prehendere, which means to grasp it or pick it up. There is no other way to understand something.

Kelimenin kökü olan 'bud' uyanmak, bilmek, anlamak anlam?na gelir; ve uyan?p anlayan kiÅŸiye Buda denir. Bu kadar basittir. Uyanma, anlama ve sevme kapasitesine Buda doÄŸas? denir. Budistler Buda'ya s???n?yorum dedikleri zaman anlama ve fark?nda olma kapasitelerine güvendiklerini ifade ederler.

Understanding is the essence of love. If you cannot understand, you cannot love.

The word creativity is closely linked to the word genius, since both words have the root meaning 'to give birth.' Essentially, creativity designates the capacity to give birth to new ways of looking at things, the ability to make novel connections between disparate things, and the knack for seeing things that might be missed by the typical way of viewing life.

It is not necessary to read all of Goethe or all of Kant, it is not necessary to read all of Schopenhauer; a few pages of Werther, a few pages of Elective Affinities and we know more in the end about the two books than if we had read them from beginning to end, which would anyway deprive us of the purest enjoyment.

We see so much sadness if we care to look.

Die Großväter sind die Lehrer, die eigentlichen Philosophen jedes Menschen, sie reißen immer den Vorhang auf, den die andern fortwährend zuziehen.

We may know for decades that someone close to us is a ridiculous person, but it's only after a lapse of decades that we suddenly see it.

All schools are bad and the one we attend is always the worst if it doesn't open our eyes. What

But we don't always have to be studying something, I thought, it's perfectly enough merely to think, to do nothing but think and give our thoughts free rein. To give in to our philosophical worldview, simply submit to our philosophical worldview, but that's the hardest thing, I thought. Wertheimer

Bir insana ne kadar uzunca bir süre bakarsak o kadar sakatlanm?? olduÄŸunu kavrayamayaca??m?z kadar sakatlanm??t?r, iÅŸin asl? budur. Dünya sakatlarla doludur. SokaÄŸa ç?kar?z ve yaln?z sakatlar? görürüz.

When we think, we know nothing, everything is open, nothing, so Roithamer.

Everything is what it is, that's all. If we keep attaching meanings and mysteries to everything we perceive, everything we see that is, and to everything that goes on inside us, we are bound to go crazy sooner or later, I thought.

Thomas C. Foster

Much of what we think about literature, we feel first.