Quotes About Insight

Experience of others can be known only as a processed, interpreted story of what the others lived through.

Don't you see, Lynn? We have to help . . . or else we won't have learned a thing.

up till now I have retained a deep conviction that a person is nowhere revealed so clearly as when he eats.

Weeds are flowers, too, once you get to know them.

Sometimes, if you stand on the bottom rail of a bridge and lean over to watch the river slipping slowly away beneath you, you will suddenly know everything there is to be known.

Only when compassion is present will people allow themselves to see the truth.

The stunning beauty of the truth lies beyond the veil of habits.

It seems to me, he emailed me later, that you start out with what you know or what you think you know and you work within those 'truthful' boundaries until you reach some sort of wilderness of not knowing, and then you find a way through until you see an end, or you find a way through until you find the end that you've already seen. It can work either way: running away from the truth, or running out of it.

He said maybe irony is the lens through which we see the picture in reverse

The principle to be kept in mind is to know what we see rather than to see what we know.

The higher goal of spiritual living is not to amass a wealth of information, but to face sacred moments. In a religious experience, for example, it is not a thing that imposes itself on man but a spiritual presence. 5 What is retained in the soul is the moment of insight rather than the place where the act came to pass. A moment of insight is a fortune, transporting us beyond the confines of measured time.

God is not a hypothesis derived from logical assumptions, but an immediate insight, self-evident as light. He is not something to be sought in the darkness with the light of reason. He is the light.

the love of truth is an act of the spirit.

A moment of insight is a fortune, transporting us beyond the confines of measured time.

The best prophet of the future is our past.

We must never forget that there is a higher truth than the one we are able to comprehend at first sight.

The mystic experience is man's turning toward God; the prophetic act is God's turning toward man. The former is first of all an event in the life of man, contingent on the aspiration and initiative of man; the latter is first of all an event in the life of God, contingent on the pathos and initiative of God. From the mystic experience we may gain an insight of man into the life of God; from the prophetic act we learn of an insight of God into the life of man.

He who wishes to ponder what is beyond the Bible must first learn to be sensitive to what is within the Bible.

Two sources of religious thinking are given us: memory (tradition) and personal insight. We must rely on our memory and we must strive for fresh insight.

It is the Bible that enables us to know the Bible.

Tact: the ability to describe others as they see themselves.

All I have learned, I learned from books.

A capacity, and taste, for reading, gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others. It is the key, or one of the keys, to the already solved problems. And not only so. It gives a relish, and facility, for successfully pursuing the [yet] unsolved ones.

He can compress the most words into the smallest ideas of any man I ever met.