Quotes About Insight

The moment you see the dysfunction, it begins to dissolve. Some people laugh out loud when they see this. With

If you take any action — leaving or changing your situation — drop the negativity first, if at all possible. Action arising out of insight into what is required is more effective than action arising out of negativity.

Remember, your perception of the world is a reflection of your state of consciousness.

If the shutters are closed, the sunlight cannot come in.

You need even more awareness to see it in yourself than to recognize it in another person.

You will know the truth, and the truth will make you free

dimension comes a different kind of knowing

The mind is essentially a survival machine. Attack and defense against other minds, gathering, storing, and analyzing information — this is what it is good at, but it is not at all creative. All true artists, whether they know it or not, create from a place of no-mind, from inner stillness. The mind then gives form to the creative impulse or insight. Even the great scientists have reported that their creative breakthroughs came at a time of mental quietude.

To see one's predicament clearly is a first step toward going beyond it.

There is nothing wrong with psychoanalysis or finding out about your past as long as you don't confuse knowing about yourself with knowing yourself.

When you say "no" to a person or a situation, let it come not from reaction but from insight, from a clear realization of what is right or not right for you at that moment. Let it be a nonreactive "no," a high-quality "no," a "no" that is free of all negativity and so creates no further suffering.

There is an Eastern saying: "The teacher and the taught together create the teaching.

Me pregunto ¿es lo que pienso que es o es algo completamente diferente?

Action arising out of insight into what is required is more effective than action arising out of negativity.

The seeing is freeing.

Scripture exists because we need revelation. We can't see reality clearly with the naked eye. Scripture is God's technology that allows us to see everything we need to see.

Benoit Mandelbrot can be considered the Euclid of fractal geometry. He has collected the observations of mathematicians concerned with monsters, or objects not definable by euclidean geometry. By combining the work of these mathematicians with his own insight, he has created a geometry of nature that thrives on asymmetry and roughness. Mandelbrot has said that mountains are not cones, and clouds are not spheres.

Satire is enjoyable compensation for being forced to think.

But it was ever thus. That which has never come within the scope of our really pitifully meager world-experience cannot be—our

Breadth of mind not infrequently accompanies limitation of knowledge.

don't understand why you would want

No one else in the wide world, since the dawn of time, has ever seen the world as you do, or can explain it as you can. This is what you have to offer that no one else can.

At some point we must plunge in to discover a greater expanse; yet when this broader horizon does appear, a new depth will open up at our point of entry.

It's you who are telling me; opening my eyes to things I'd looked at so long that I'd ceased to see them.