Quotes About Insight

As a dreamer, you're inevitably called to dream yourself awake using the full resources of your imagination and heart. You may have buried or repressed your season of insight, but it happened, and now you are irrevocably changed.

It was as if he had stood me squarely before the world, removed the blindfold, and ordered me to open my eyes.

The conclusion I have reached is that, above all, dogs are witnesses. They are allowed access to our most private moments. They are there when we think we are alone. Think of what they could tell us. They sit on the laps of presidents. They see acts of love and violence, quarrels and feuds, and the secret play of children. If they could tell us everything they have seen, all of the gaps of our lives would stitch themselves together.

The conclusion I have reached is that, above all, dogs are witnesses.

Everyone in the world should read this book... We should read it to learn about the world and what it means to be human.

a way of looking at the world that changed my life,

I'm a hick," I recall saying to him. "No," Harrison answered. "You think you're less than you are. You're a smart hick." And then, "You have the eyes of a doe and the balls of a samurai.

If Harrison was unable to see that I had feelings for him (at least five, but sometimes as many as seven) then he wasn't as smart as I thought he was – as I knew he was.

It seemed to calm me, getting anything that might be chaotic behind the eyes onto the page in front of me where it could do me less harm.

It was hiding in plain sight. Mocking the suggestion that anything was going on; therefore, it couldn't be true. A technique I like to use to this day.

He's far from a fool, nowhere near. I'm quite near. I can feel the fool that's so far away from him breathing down my neck.

Baby, the fact that you know that's funny is going to save your whole life.

She wondered if she was in the midst of an anecdote that, for reasons of proximity, she was not yet able to perceive.

It's a lot easier to understand things once you name them. It's the unknown that scares me most. - Zara

We are training our minds to see the subtle shapes in the visual world around us. Shade

Il buon senso è la cosa meglio distribuita al mondo. Ciascuno infatti pensa di esserne così ben provvisto che anche coloro che di tutte le altre cose non si contentano mai, di questa sono soliti non volerne più di quanto ne hanno.

Savoir mal est pire qu'ignorer

There's more to the story you don't know because you did not live it."

Close your bodily eye, that you may see your picture first with the eye of the spirit. Then bring to light what you have seen in the darkness, that its effect may work back, from without to within.

People are not, of course, perfectly rational. No reader of Shakespeare, Dickens, or Joyce, or observer of daily life, is unaware of this point.

There's plenty of sense in nonsense sometimes, if you wish to look for it.

All knowledge hurts.

The intellectuals of this era are simply blind to the reality of consciousness. Consciousness is who we are, how we think, and how we know.

The best of prophets of the future is the past.