Quotes About Insight

Not every person with their eyes closed is asleep, and not every person with their eyes open can see.

I continue to believe that we can learn more in an hour of silence than we can in a year from books.

The employees now things about our business that we don't. We should do a survey and ask them why they think so many people come and go.

We live in a world drowning in information and desperate for wisdom.

Books and people are alike in one respect: they're both full of thoughts.

Porque, aunque no puede haber gracia sin conocimiento, puede haber mucho conocimiento donde no hay gracia;

Are all our parents, collectively, fucked up? Have they always been fucked up, and it just takes us until our own adulthood to figure that out? "I

Shakespeare brings us to know ourselves. Dante, with his dissection of all others, bids us to know one another.

A man's library opens up his character to the world.

The sayers do not know and the knowers do not say.

Richard Polly, 1942–2017 "Knowing others is Wisdom, Knowing yourself is Enlightenment." —Lao-tzu

We can never comprehend the depths of gloom of night in the light of day".

For a moment she knew exactly what he was thinking, not just about Tom, but about her, and himself, and all of life, and she liked the way he saw things. She could spend her life tuning into the calming frequency of his thoughts. He wasn't a stiff, and he wasn't a weakling either. What was the word for it? Sensitive was the only one that came to mind, amazing as that was to consider; he was a sensitive man. He soaked up whatever you gave him.

Images, similars, signs, correspondences, and coincidences infer a different way to look at the world; they give rise to a different kind of knowledge.

A storm may be raging at the surface, but the depths remain calm. The wise man always remains connected to the depths. On the other hand, he who knows only the surface and is unaware of the depths is lost when he is buffeted by the waves of suffering.

Had I renounced the Western world? Renunciation, at least as Buddhists use the term, is a much-misunderstood concept. It is not about giving up what is good and beautiful. How foolish that would be! Rather it is about disentangling oneself from the unsatisfactory and moving with determination toward what matters most. It is about freedom and meaning—freedom from mental confusion and self-centered afflictions, meaning through insight and loving-kindness.

Meditation helps us to familiarize ourselves with a clear and accurate way of seeing things and to cultivate wholesome qualities that remain dormant within us unless we make an effort to draw them out.

There's nothing odd about the fact that what we conceive corresponds to what we perceive .

There's no such things as travel insurance when it comes to reading.

From above, start with the privileged view.

Kebiasaan untuk menerjemahkan teks dari perspektif para penafsir sebelumnya – yang pandangannya atas realitas tidak sesuai dengan penemuan-penemuan masa kini – memainkan peranan penting dalam kesalahpahaman atas Kitab Suci.

Man is like a blind person who denies the existence of light because he doesn't see it. Light is a great mystery, for the blind!

El hombre se asemeja a un ciego que niega la luz porque no la ve. ¡La luz es un hondo misterio para el ciego!

We possess only the happiness we are able to understand.