Quotes About Insight

Close the book. Read the title. Read the title again. Nuff said.

Awareness is not the same as thinking. It is a complementary form of intelligence, a way of knowing that is at least as wonderful and as powerful, if not more so, than thinking.

Awareness is not the same as thought. It lies beyond thinking, although it makes use of thinking, honoring its value and its power. Awareness is more like a vessel which can hold and contain our thinking, helping us to see and know our thoughts as thoughts rather than getting caught up in them in reality.

Meditation is neither shutting things out nor off. It is seeing things clearly, and deliberately positioning yourself differently in relationship to them.

Meditation does not involve trying to change your thinking by thinking some more. It involves watching thought itself. The watching is the holding. By watching your thoughts without being drawn into them, you can learn something profoundly liberating about thinking itself, which may help you to be less of a prisoner of those thought patterns (….)

As you begin befriending your breath, you see immediately that unawareness is everywhere.

We tend to see more through our thoughts and opinions than through our eyes.

The range of what we think and do is limited by what we fail to notice. R. D. LAING

Awareness requires only that we pay attention and see things as they are. It doesn't require that we change anything.

known. If you are completely preoccupied with what is already known, you can't make the leap into that other dimension of creativity or imagination or poetry, or whatever it is that allows for seeing a hidden order in things which, until it is seen and realized, it isn't seen at all.

It is not that mindfulness is the "answer" to all life's problems. Rather, it is that all life's problems can be seen more clearly through the lens of a clear mind.

Even the tiniest manifestation of mindfulness in any moment might give rise to an intuition or insight that could be hugely transforming.

Simply put, meditation is the path to clarity, compassion, and a path of wisdom leading to the eradication of suffering.

vemos ciertas cosas, pero que también, al mismo tiempo, quizás no vemos las más importantes.

It is only when the mind is open and receptive that learning and seeing and change can occur.

Faith is the blind heart that sees better than an opened eye

We've peered into the deepest parts to see beyond what lies on the surface.

To rely solely on logic is in essence to operate within a structure of limited knowledge and understanding

I read the bible every day and the one thing I have noticed is that those characters that are closest to God seem to be the ones who question and wonder and think more than others.

I have a lot of faith in the power of joking to make something thoughtful.

The revolution is carried out by means of one's thought.

I know. You know I know. I know you know I know. We know Henry knows and Henry knows we know it. We're a knowledgeable family.

If we can't understand the Afghan family, we can't understand Afghanistan.

I always see my wife as the clever one, as the wise one in the family.