Quotes About Insight

You've gotta know what death is to know life!

When we are lost in delusion, it's hard to see even the most obvious truths.

Buddhist teachings are not a religion, they are a science of mind.

The path of awakening begins with a step the Buddha called right understanding.

Meditation is not a process of getting rid of something, but one of opening and understanding. When

The basic principle of spiritual life is that our problems become the very place to discover wisdom and love. With

To understand ourselves and our life is the point of insight meditation: to understand and to be free.

Built on the foundation of concentration is the third aspect of the Buddha's path of awakening: clarity of vision and the development of wisdom.

When we clearly realize that the source of disharmony and misery in the world is ignorance, we can open the door of wisdom and compassion.

The word "buddha" means one who is awake.

Meditation is a vehicle for opening to the truth of this impermanence on deeper and deeper levels.

Each time we come to a book we give it a different reading because we bring a different person to it. It is not you who reads the book, the book reads you.

you should regularly ask your staff, employees, and customers: "Can you tell me something I don't want to hear?

I understand the gist of your speculation,' said Rhialto. 'It is most likely nuncupatory.

No friend is better than your own wise heart!" Genghis Khan

If you are not confused, you don´t know what is going on.

IT'S SAID that you can only live life forward and understand it backward.

I suspect that much of life is like that. We seldom see what is closest to our eyes.

I really like children to watch my movies.

Those who know why will always beat those who know how." Here's

You noticed things. You're not sure when you start. It's only when you've noticed - noticed that you know you've noticed. Maybe between the first time when you're staring to think, Is this what I think it is? and the second time when you think, Yes, between those two times, there's a silence. A pause.

And, sometimes, such stories, dreams, can only be told in questions, can only be found in answers.

I think I know you absolutely.

The more I live, the more I think that humor is the saving sense.