Quotes About Insight

Y no hay solución, porque ni siquiera sospechas que tu percepción está deformada, que piensas de manera equivocada, que tus creencias son falsas.

This is how your beliefs originate: they are fixed, unchanging ways of looking at a reality that is not fixed and unchanging at all, but constantly moving and changing. So, it is no longer the real world that you interact with and love, but a world created by your head. It is only when you drop your beliefs, fears, and the attachments that breed them that you will be freed from the insensitivity that makes you so deaf and blind to yourself and the world.

Father, what you said to me was absolutely true but totally useless.' 

The unaware life is not worth living.

Travel definitely affects me as a writer.

To shut your eyes is to guess nothing of blindness. Beneath your world of skies and faces and buildings exists a rawer and older world, a place where surface planes disintegrate and sounds ribbon in shoals through the air.

To shut you eyes is to guess nothing of blindness.

He sees what other people don't." What the war did to dreamers.

Abrid los ojos y observad todo lo que podáis antes de cerrarlos para siempre»

How? How did Jutta understand so much more about how the world worked? While he knew so little?

Jutta, he thinks, I finally listened.

To shut your eyes is to guess nothing of blindness.

So many human beings, none of them seeing clearly.

To know her is to realize the thousand forms of inquiry.

Boil the words you already know down to their bones," Rex says, "and usually you find the ancients sitting there at the bottom of the pot, staring back up." Who says such things? And still Zeno steals glances: Rex's mouth, his hair, his hands; there is the same pleasure in gazing at this man as in gazing at a fire.

After a while, he is learning, even total darkness is not quite darkness.

But as he reconstructs Zeno's translation, he realizes that the truth is infinitely more complicated, that we are all beautiful even as we are all part of the problem, and that to be a part of the problem is to be human.

Strange how suffering can look beautiful if you get far enough away.

Do we have our heads in the sand, Madame? Or do they?" "Maybe everyone does

Do we have our heads in the sand, Madame? Or do they?" "Maybe everybody does

In much wisdom is much sorrow, and in ignorance is much wisdom."]·

In much wisdom is much sorrow, and in ignorance is much wisdom.

Então, crianças, como o cérebro, que vive sem uma centelha de luz, constrói para nós um mundo cheio de luz?

Boil the words you already know down to their bones," Rex says, "and usually you find the ancients sitting there at the bottom of the pot, staring back up.