Quotes About Insight

Dobro znam da mi jedino istina može dati radost i slobodu.

Books contain nothing, or almost nothing, that's important: everything is in the mind of the person reading them.' If you were trying to find an idiotic remark, that one took the cake!

Le vieux Hemingway énonçait une règle très simple: l'écrivain devait toujours s'en tenir aux sujets qu'il connaissait le mieux.

To explain something to someone is first of all to show him he cannot understand it by himself.

And of the fact that every vision of the past is a vision of the blind

It is true that living offers us the answers a long time before the questions.

Un livre a toujours deux auteurs : celui qui l'écrit et celui qui le lit.

I am not here to speak the Truth. I am here just to give you a method to perceive it.

So the whole process of spirituality is just about enhancing your perception.

A veces se da uno cuenta, repentinamente, de que la vida es torpe y vacía, y se echa uno a reír

Everyone sees the unseen in proportion to the clarity of his heart, and that depends upon how much he has polished it. Whoever has polished it more sees more -- more unseen forms become manifest to him.

Nunca se le ha ocurrido pensar que quizá su forma de querernos no sea lo mejor para nosotros.Nunca se le ha ocurrido pensar que quizá su forma de querernos la haya beneficiado más a ella que a nosotros. ¿Y por qué iba a ser así? Quizá toda forma de amor revierta en beneficio propio. No lo sé, no lo sé.

I was a new person then, I knew things I had not known before, I knew things that you can know only if you have been through what I had just been through.

The questions which one asks oneself begin, at least, to illuminate the world, and become one's key to the experience of others.

Experience teaches slowly and at the cost of mistakes.

and every time, he was still more acutely aware of their eyes on him and of the thoughts behind their eyes

For in the immediate world, everything is to be discerned, for him who can discern it, and central and simply, without either dissection into science, or digestion into art, but with the whole of consciousness, seeking to perceive it as it stands: so that the aspect of a street in sunlight can roar in the heart of itself as a symphony, perhaps as no symphony can: and all of consciousness is shifted from the imagined, the revisive, to the effort to perceive simply the cruel radiation of what is.

Aphorism, n.: A concise, clever statement you don't think of until too late.

The wisdom of goldilocks and three bears story is applicable to a lot.

I have never met a mentally strong person who wasn't a voracious reader.

You can't tell nobody what they don't know—not even that they don't know

The price one pays for pursuing a profession, or calling, is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.

The doctor may also learn more about the illness from the way the patient tells the story than from the story itself.

We have even lost any critical insight we may once have had into the organic basis of perception, taking for granted the basic fact that a normal person has two eyes. We have nearly ceased to consider this as even knowledge at all and are no longer conscious of our own participation in perception. Instead, we feel a complete passivity in the face of a power that is independent of us; a power we call "existence" or "reality.