Quotes About Insight

There is pleasure from learning the simple truth, and there is a pleasure from learning that the truth is not simple.

Your teacher might be a child who takes you by the hand and asks you a question that you hadn't considered before, and your answer to the child is your answer to yourself.

Judgements prevent us from seeing the good that lies beyond appearances.

The More I Read,The More I Get Enlightened About Life..

The Tao advises making yourself as invisible as possible if you truly wish to be an effective leader.

look within for the Source of enlightenment and strength

I hear and I forget I see and I remember I do and I understand.

understand the great within yourself.

when the student is ready, the teachers will appear.

Very few really understand him, however much they may like him.

How do I know the ways of all things at the beginning? I look inside myself and see what is within me.

Improve your vision by looking beyond what your eyes see.

When you start to allow your true nature—which is the anchor of the universe—to shine through, you'll recognize that the way you look at things has absolutely changed.

One who understands others has knowledge; one who understands himself has wisdom.

Sometimes the things we really want are right in front of us. We just don't see them.

Get beyond his eyes and his smile and the sheen of his hair—look at what's really there.

Maybe it's time to meet him in the proper light.

Get beyond his eyes and his smile and the sheen of his hair—look at what's really there.

I realized that Garrett was right about one thing — I had flipped.

Some of the best things I have ever thought of I have thought of during bad sermons.

You don't need to be told some things. You can sometimes tell more by a man's silence and the set of his head than by what he says.

To define knowledge as merely empirical is to limit one's ability to know; it enfeebles one's ability to feel and think.

Thinking is the most overrated human activity.

At the window he sits and looks out, musing on the river, a little brown hen duck paddling upstream among the windwaves close to the far bank. What he has understood lies behind him like a road in the woods. He is a wilderness looking out at the wild.