Quotes About Insight

Long story,' I said. 'Ah,' the barman said, like he understood everything there was to know about me, 'we've all got one of those,

But you've seen plenty of her, from your

figure out what to do here.

I see that,' I said. I thought I did. 'But every case is different. And anyway, you can't learn from other people's mistakes.' 'Not unless you're very clever,' said Dexter sadly.

obvious solution, and marveled that no one had

Nothing is ever what it seems and not everything is yours to see.

The more you know, the less you understand.

Emotional fixations are like that—if you see them clearly, unflinchingly, for what they really are, you take the power away from them. They no longer control you. Confusion dawns as clarity.

Everything changes—an insight that can help free us from the pull of pleasure and the aversion to pain.

This quality of seeing things freshly, as though for the first time, lies at the heart of mindfulness.

Becoming aware of our emotional patterns gives us an idea of where our attachments—and so our clinging and misperception—are especially thick.

This gives us an added anchor in the mind to resist the tide of those thoughts and to help us determine how active the schema seems to be. Mindfulness teacher Joseph Goldstein points out that one reason it is so important to make our thoughts the object of mindfulness is that "if we remain unaware of thoughts as they arise, it is difficult to develop insight" into them.

Understanding, too, can be a form of forgiveness.

Mindfulness is a meditative awareness that cultivates the capacity to see things just as they are from moment to moment

Strong emotions are messages from the unconscious.

mindfulness creates a "wise" attention, a space of clarity that emerges when we quiet the mind. It makes us more receptive to the whispers of our innate intuitive wisdom.

Thoreau writes, "Is there a greater miracle than to see through another's eyes, even for an instant?

Just as a clear pond reflects the sky, mindfulness allows us to see the truth of our experience.

Buddhist mindfulness meditation called vipassana, which means "to see clearly

Human] wisdom is the believer's lost belonging; he is the most worthy of it wherever he finds it.

Isn't it odd that you only become clever when it's too late?

One must gradually learn the truth about the boundaries between what is great and what is small.

As we experience things, they happen too quickly to be thoughly analyzed...

You do know, I hope, that no man under the age of forty can even approach fascinating.