Quotes About Insight

And so it has taken me all of sixty years to understand that water is the finest drink, and bread the most delicious food. and that art is worthless unless it plants a measure of splendor in people's hearts.

Poetry is not only a set of words which are chosen to relate to each other it is something which goes much further than that to provide a glimpse of our vision of the world.

Move to a new country and you quickly see that visiting a place as a tourist, and actually moving there for good, are two very different things.

There is nothing like a train journey for reflection.

Time spent in India has a extraordinary effect on one. It acts as a barrier that makes the rest of the world seem unreal.

Creative vision, sometimes childlike, enhances our ability to explore and question the reality around us.

Each question is three thousand questions, and a good question provides more questions.

Your world and the cat's world are not the same.

Knowledge may hinder. Ignorance may liberate. Knowing when to know and when not to know, this is as important as a fluent blade. SUZUME–NO–KUMO (1434)

When we let ourselves see only what we expect to see," Genji said, "we view the contents of our own minds and miss what is truly before us.

When we let ourselves see only what we expect to see," Genji said, "we view the contents of our own minds and miss what is truly before us.

Preoccupied with a single leaf, you won't see the tree. Preoccupied with a single tree, you'll miss the entire forest.

Wisdom-gone-beyond is inexpressible, Inconceivable, and undefinable. Having the intrinsic nature of space it is nonarising and unceasing;It is the object of analytical insight. You, mother of the Buddhas in the three periods of time, I pay thee homage.

When you look at a tree, se it for its leafs, its branches, its trunk and the roots, then and only then will you see the tree

One may explain water, but the mouth will not become wet. One may expound fully on the nature of fire, but the mouth will not become hot.

When you have a group of people who've had a different professional training, a different professional experience, they not only have a different knowledge base, but they have a different perspective on everything.

Kabbalah thus enables us to see the depth dimension in all aspects of life, from family relations to politics and technology.

Women saw everything, and they thought about everything. The result was wisdom. For men, this was a frightening state of affairs, which is why they insist on holding on to power.

To understand a woman, a man had to peel away layer after layer of words, much as one must peel away an onion to get at the desired part.

Known is a drop, unknown is an Ocean

There's more to life than you can see. Your sight is limited.

When you're too close to people, when you spend too much time with them and love them too dearly, sometimes you can't see them

She informed me, matter-of-factly, that she was old enough to know the difference between intriguing and fucked up. "You should go for younger women," she advised me. "They can't always tell.

Reminded myself: the ones you don't like are a bonus. They can't fool you as easy as the ones you do.