Quotes About Insight

Of course, all knowledge is useful. But not all knowledge is worth the cost.

You may have read the poetry, but you haven't lived it. And that's what makes the difference.

This is what comes of making up conversations with frescoes, he chided himself, as he dropped to his knees and bowed his head. Nothing but trouble.

Benno had to face facts. He had no idea what girls wanted. And, now that he thought about it, he suspected they didn't know, either.

You must look through a window and see the world as it really is, not split like two halves of a broken cup but whole and undivided. How else can it hold wine?

Eyes are most effective - getting a point across!

Wouldn't you want to know so that you don't make the same mistakes again?' Realm laughs, sounding bitter. 'That's the great thing, James Murphy. Some mistakes are destined to repeat themselves.

Many people are in the dark when it comes to money, and I'm going to turn on the lights.

We say concentration, but to concentrate your mind on something is not the true purpose of Zen. The true purpose is to see thing as they are, to observe things as they are, and to let everything go as it goes. This is to put everything under control in its widest sense.

You already know enough. So do I. It is not knowledge we lack. What is missing is the courage to understand what we know and to draw conclusions.

One must know one's own secret.

stories in this book represent only the tip of the iceberg.

Do not think I imagine it — I see it.

Do not believe a thing because you have read about it in a book. Do not believe a thing because another man has said it was true. Do not believe in words because they are hallowed by tradition. Find out the truth for yourself. Reason it out. That is realization.

All knowledge that the world has ever received comes from the mind; the infinite library of the universe is in our own mind.

But where the ignorant are asleep, there the sage keeps awake

We may talk and reason all our lives, but we shall not understand a word of truth, until we experience it ourselves.

We can read all the Vedas, and yet will not realize anything, but when we practice their teachings, then we attain to that state which realizes what the scriptures say, which penetrates where neither reason nor perception nor inference can go, and where the testimony of others cannot avail.

Realisation is real religion, all the rest is only preparation — hearing lectures, or reading books, or reasoning is merely preparing the ground; it is not religion.

The sages of the world have only the right to tell us that they have analysed their minds and have found these facts, and if we do the same we shall also believe, and not before.

The great men think, and you and I [also] think. But there is a difference.

It is daylight for him. ...

A child knows when they are on the receiving end of a didactic exercise, or when they are sitting in the shadow of something else.

In writing literary fiction, you are trying to help yourself. And readers are going to literary fiction not just to be entertained, but because they feel something else will happen; that the experience will take them beyond themselves and show them something they haven't seen before.