Quotes About Insight

She learned so much from these little talks with her son. He always swore he'd learned it from her and was only mirroring it back, but somehow the wisdom of her own advice surprised her as it came out of his mouth, and left her wondering if she was wise enough to heed it.

Thank you for letting me know I have a knower. Not that you ever told me I did, exactly. But when you told me you did, that there were things you knew with your knower, I checked inside myself. Imagine my surprise.

If you listen to people, they'll tell you a lot, even when they don't mean to.

He wished he could communicate what he knew to this frightened boy. But that never did any good anyway. People learned by what they experienced. It mattered little what anyone said to anyone.

get it. How did you not know?

Just because I don't think normally doesn't mean I don't know normal thinking when I hear it.

There's so much I see every day and don't really understand and I just don't stop to think about the fact that I don't really understand.

does it seem to you like she's right around here somewhere?" I watched his forehead furrow. I think he knew what I was asking. That I was talking about some kind of sixth sense knowing. Which made my question nearly impossible to answer.

All guidance springs from an ability within yourself—if only the ability to be guided.

She was also close to the other side. Maybe even close enough to see things most people can't.

Love explains a lot.

Grown-ups have it over you in sheer day-to-day life experience. I'll be the first to admit that we don't know everything, but you at least have to be open to the idea that we might know a few things you don't.

There are only just so many times you can look at something before you no longer see it.

Nothing's a onetime thing," Fern said. "Not in relationships. Everything is the tip of the iceberg. Everything points to something much bigger floating down where you can't see. If you see something rear its head once, expect to see it again. It's like if you see a cockroach in your kitchen. And you don't call the exterminator 'cause you figure it's just that one, and how long can it live? Yeah, good luck with that.

What can you do with a world where people do not even see?

People need help with perspective sometimes. If they're all alone in their own head, they can lose perspective. Sometimes you need to use somebody else like a mirror. Let them reflect back to you the way the world really is.

You're not using your head, dear," she says. "No, of course I'm not," he says. "I'm using my heart.

Looking back, she couldn't believe she'd been so naive, so blind. She

children not only remember the facts and sequence of the events in stories but are also able to discover meaning in them.

says N. T. Wright, bring "two sets of ideas close together, close enough for a spark to jump, but not too close, so that the spark, in jumping, illuminates for a moment the whole area around."[12]

To communicate effectively with children we must learn how they think.

One cannot always know what children are thinking. Children are hard to understand, especially when careful training has a custom them to obedience and experience has made them cautious in conversation with their teachers.

A book is a door, you know. Always and forever. A book is a door into another place and another heart and another world.

Still, she was not sorry. If the world is divided into seeing and not seeing, Marya thought, I shall always choose to see.