Quotes About Insight

when you look at the world, you put on the goggles of custom, habit and tribal wisdom lest the truth make you insane [...] you see the world reflected in your own image; you see yourself reflected to the image of the world [...]

His silence helps him come off as something of a seer, a whispering muse.

His level of experience is nearly transcendent.

My journal has become a paper mirror, a topographic map to my mind. It is where I go to sort out confusion and decipher the invisible.

To be educated is not so much to be taught as it is to be awakened to who you really are.

key intentional questions: • What is most important to you about this? • What is surprising to you right now? • What is inspiring you? • What is challenging you?

The poet William Butler Yeats said, "We taste and feel and see the truth. We do not reason ourselves into it.

They are much more interested in producing information than consuming it.

You Don't Need To Jump Off Of A Building To Appreciate Architecture

I first realized I was psychic next Monday

It's not the journey or the arrival but the return that often becomes the most revelatory

You can never read too much into anything

The wisdom of the wise is an uncommon degree of common sense.

at the end of all our exploring we will arrive where we started, and know the place for the first time.

Education is not about scoring an A grades as you may think always, education is about acquiring Wisdom and Knowledge with full scale implementation. That's why I am educated ever.

Intuition is seeing with the soul.

She didn't look at me and I didn't look at her. Some questions are so direct the only way to ask them is sideways.

I had long since discovered upon my travels that men are largely the same no matter where one encounters them. And if one is prepared to let them discourse on their pet topics of conversation, one can generally get on with things quite handily without any interference.

He'd learned many years ago that the loud and overemotional meant loud and overemotional, not right.

We can get so wrapped up in our own misconceptions that we miss the simple beauty of the truth.

But sometimes, too, you have this little feeling of knowing, this fuzzy, gnawing sense that someone will become a major something in your life. You just know that theirs will be a life you will enter and become a part of.

My subconscious speaks in a foreign language.

I began to learn the importance of lifting things up and looking underneath.

It's hard to see clearly when your eyes are squinched tight out of fear.