Quotes About Insight

When you think about it, everything has been said before, in one way or another. It's only our experience of it that makes it new.

It is a truth universally acknowledged that one only comes up with clever, cutting remarks long after the other party is happily slumbering away.

But that initial, comet-blazing-across-the-sky, Big Idea is only the beginning. Each book is composed of a mosaic of thousands of little ideas, ideas that invariably come to me at two in the morning when my alarm is set for seven.

Although Travels included Polo's experiences closer to home, enlivened with shrewd observations

Though hardly a revolutionary insight, the comment set Pigafetta apart from sages such as Pliny and Marco Polo

he would present phenomena as he observed them with his own eyes.

You are an epiphany.

A cadaver does not yield the secret to the human experience.

Strong emotions may be experienced just prior to illumination; terror most readily comes to mind. In addition, amazement may be experienced.

In metaphysical training, a hidden truth is that spiritual power is released by going backwards!

Looking out of the back of your head is a way that some shamans describe the shamanic experience.

More wisdom can be transmitted through a novel than a textbook.

Cold facts never can sprout into flowers of wisdom.

Living knowledge goes beyond words and lifeless facts and takes you into a wordless direct knowing of the Ultimate Reality.

The Christos is the spiritual sun, the source of enlightenment that brings about order, harmony, spiritual insight and the awakening of the divine potential within each human being.

Sophia resides in all of humanity as the hidden wisdom,

Ultimately, no one can extract from things, books included, more than he already knows. What one has no access to through experience one has no ear for.

The sun beams are always there. The trick is in seeing them.

Knowledge of the sort you need does not begin with information, it begins with experience and perception. But there is a dark and twisty road from experience and perception to correct action.

There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience, and that is not learning from experience.

A man doesn't know what he knows until he knows what he doesn't know.

I don't know what is better than the work that is given to the actor-to teach the human heart the knowledge of itself.

in 1979] You must have - besides intuition and sensitivity - a cutting edge that allows you to reach what you need. Also, you have to know life - bastards included - and it takes a bit of one to know one, don't you think?

I don't know what is better than the work that is given to the actor - to teach the human heart the knowledge of itself.