Quotes About Insight

Sleep seems to hammer out for me the logical conclusions of my vague days, and offer them to me as dreams.

Art has two great functions. First, it provides an emotional experience. And then, if we have the courage of our own feelings, it becomes a mine of practical truth. We have had the feelings ad nauseam. But we've never dared dig the actual truth out of them, the truth that concerns us, whether it concerns our grandchildren or not.

Had you noticed them before? he asked. No, never before, she replied. And now you will always see them, he said.

Put the lights out, we shall see better.

Like the sun illuminating and refreshing the world, this sitting removes obscurities from the mind and lightens the body so that exhaustion is set aside.

So our practice is not to eliminate our delusion, but to see or to become aware of the fact that we are deluded. Just become aware of it and let go of it. Do not be pulled by the delusions.

Looking deeply into the writings and sutras of past teachers does not mean to learn something that is unrelated to us. Studying ancient writings means to study our lives. To study the Tenzo Ky?kun came to mean for me that I would be studying my own life.

So each moment we can see only part of the world, not the whole world. That is the source of delusion.

Zazen doesn't give you something—it's the complete opposite!

Emerson said: "Every man I meet is my superior in some way. In that, I learn of him.

People who can put themselves in the place of other people, who can understand the workings of their minds, need never worry about what the future has in store for them.

You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him to find it within himself.

If there is any one secret of success," said Henry Ford, "it lies in the ability to get the other person's point of view and see things from that person's angle as well as from your own.

As Lord Chesterfield said to his son: Be wiser than other people if you can; but do not tell them so.

Napoleon was criticized for giving "toys" to war-hardened veterans, and Napoleon replied, "Men are ruled by toys.

Every man I meet is my superior in some way. In that, I learn of him.

I would rather walk the sidewalk in front of a person's office for two hours before an interview than step into that office without a perfectly clear idea of what I was going to say and what that person—from my knowledge of his or her interests and motives—was likely to answer.

If you teach a man anything, he will never learn.

Try honestly to see things from the other person's point of view.

De modo que el único medio de que disponemos para influir sobre el prójimo es hablar acerca de lo que él quiere, y demostrarle cómo conseguirlo.

If there is any one secret of success, it lies in the ability to get the other person's point of view and see things from that person's angle as well as from your own.

Se há algum segredo de sucesso, ele consiste na habilidade de apreender o ponto de vista da outra pessoa e ver as coisas tão bem pelo ângulo dela como pelo seu". Essa

El hombre que se puede poner en el lugar de los demás, que puede comprender el funcionamiento de la mente ajena, no tiene por qué preocuparse por el futuro.

Saberlo todo es perdonarlo todo