Quotes About Insight

E' necessaria la sventura per scavare certe misteriose miniere nascoste nell'intelligenza umana; serve la pressione per fare esplodere la polvere. La prigionia ha riunito in un punto solo tutte le mie facoltà, che fluttuavano quà e là, e sono venute a scontrarsi in uno spazio stretto: come sapete, dall'urto delle nubi scaturisce l'elettricità, dall'elettricità il lampo, dal lampo la luce

The cards act like an early warning system that lets us choose our future instead of reacting to it as it happens. This is the difference between stumbling around in the dark and turning on the lights. We may not like what we see, but at least we can see it. Now we can make intelligent choices instead of being at the mercy of the darkness.

Always try to associate yourself with and learn as much as you can from those who know more than you do, who do better than you, who see more clearly than you.

An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.

Because we are limited in our knowledge, even the sanest of us are slightly insane. Our limitations are a kind of madness, and we can only choose to deny we are mad, and so descend into a dark spiral of total insanity, or accept we are mad and embark on a quest to regain our true and wholesome sanity

God knows our history. No matter how insightful a therapist may be or wise a friend is, only God can ultimately know the intricacies of our lives and experiences. His eyes never leave us, and He knows us better than we know ourselves.

A book is not complete until it's read

The way I work] is like driving a car at night: you never see further than your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way. (The Paris Review, Winter 1986, No. 101)

Now the ears of my ears are awake and now the eyes of my eyes are opened.

Laughing is just another way of showing people your wise

The historian will tell you what happened. The novelist will tell you what it felt like.

The experience of experience is untransmittable.

I keep telling you that often the search proves more profitable than the goal.

How do I know what I think until I see what I say?

Let yourself go. Pull out from the depths those thoughts that you do not understand, and spread them out in the sunlight and know the meaning of them.

All scripture was written for us, and for our learning ; but they are not all addressed to us, or written concerning us.

write hard & clear about what hurts.

Awareness is the greatest agent for change.

The greatest achievement of humanity is not its works of art, science, or technology, but the recognition of its own dysfunction.

A belief may be comforting. Only through your own experience, however, does it become liberating.

Whenever anything negative happens to you, there is a deep lesson concealed within it, although you may not see it at the time.

Only through awareness can you see the totality of the situation or person instead of adopting one limited perspective.

Thinking without awareness is the main dilemma of human existence.

No-mind is consciousness without thought. Only in that way is it possible to think creatively, because only in that way does thought have any real power. Thought alone, when it is no longer connected with the much vaster realm of consciousness, quickly becomes barren, insane, destructive.