Quotes About Insight

What we need to become happier and to make the world a better place is not more pious illusions but a clearer understanding of the way things are.

My friend Joseph Goldstein, one of the finest vipassana teachers I know, likens this shift in awareness to the experience of being fully immersed in a film and then suddenly realizing that you are sitting in a theater watching a mere play of light on a wall.

A coach must sometimes see players with his heart, and hear them with his eyes.

It's on the strength of observation and reflection that one finds a way. So we must dig and delve unceasingly.

Strength is but one aspect of power.

Battles are not won by strength alone!

Perception is strong and sight weak. In strategy it is important to see distant things as if they were close and to take a distanced view of close things.

To see a candle's light one must take it into a dark place.

Your eyes show the strength of your soul.

I have this strength that comes from knowledge.

Vision is perhaps our greatest strength.. it has kept us alive to the power and continuity of thought through the centuries, it makes us peer into the future and lends shape to the unknown.

Instead of insight, maybe all a man gets is strength to wander for a while.

I mean I'm not smarter than the market, but I can recognize a good tape and a bad tape. I recognize when it's right and when it's wrong and that's what my strength is.

Books open your mind, broaden your mind, and strengthen you as nothing else can.

Everything is given by God. All talent, creativity, ability, insight, and strength comes from him. In our own strength we can do nothing.

My only strength is finding something where most people would find nothing.

You are now about to witness the strength of street knowledge.

My strength and my weakness is that I see normally impersonal events vividly and personally.

A man's own addition to what he learns is cement to bind an otherwise loose heap of stones into a structure of unity, strength, and use.

I believe my past is my strength.

The biggest strength is being able to have perspective. Get the distance, and it enables you to be able to laugh at yourself.

Get the big picture! See 2 Believe!

It's not the wound that teaches, but the healing.

Three keys to success: read, read, read.