Quotes About Insight

The last of these wholesome actions is meditation, the development of tranquillity and insight.

Awareness of motivation plays a central role in the path of liberation.

Some people think the longer you can sit, the wiser you must be. I have seen chickens sitting on their nests for days on end. Wisdom comes from being mindful at all times."3

The fourth of his insights that allowed him to triumph in his situation was the understanding that hatred, anger, and ill will never cease if we react with the same kind of feelings.

Better than one hundred years lived without seeing the arising and passing of things / Is one day lived seeing their arising and passing."2 What does this say about what we value and work for in our lives, and about the liberating effect of seeing directly, in the moment, the truth of change?

In meditation, we free ourselves from attachment to that conceptualization and experience the fundamental unity of the elements which comprise our being.

our ability to enter into cooperative relations with one another is based upon the rational insight that we can all be better off if we follow some mutually agreed-upon rules.22

Clevinger had a mind, and Lieutenant Scheisskoph had noticed that people with minds tended to get pretty smart at times.

Oh, they're there all right, Orr had assured him about the flies in Appleby's eyes after Yossarian's fist fight in the officers' club, although he probably doesn't even know it. That's why he can't see things as they really are. How come he doesn't know it? inquired Yossarian. Because he's got flies in his eyes, Orr explained with exaggerated patience. How can he see he's got flies in his eyes if he's got flies in his eyes?

Clevinger was one of those people with lots of intelligence and no brains, and everyone knew it except those who soon found it out

You've got flies in your eyes. That's why you can't see them.

Nincs mód arra, hogy tényleg mindent tudjunk, ezt is tudta, sÅ't azt is, hogy még azt se tudhatjuk, valóban nincs-e mód arra, hogy tényleg mindent tudjunk.

Yes, now I see. But I still don't think I understand.

Everyone agreed that Clevinger was certain to go far in the academic world. In short, Clevinger was one of those people with lots of intelligence and no brains, and everyone knew it except those who soon found it out.

as pessoas com mentes manifestavam por vezes tendência para se tornar espertas.

Each morning they came around, three brisk and serious men with efficient mouths and inefficient eyes...

Any possibilities that I might be mistaken about her humor were dispelled by her first words.

he had been given a sign, a secret, enigmatic vision that he still lacked the boldness to divulge. There was no mistaking the awesome implications of the chaplain's revelation: it was either an insight of divine origin or a hallucination; he was either blessed or losing his mind.

the historian must be part hedgehog and part fox; that is, he must know "one big thing" and several "little things," must pursue a unifying vision while remaining sensitive to the peculiarities and the bedeviling varieties of his subject.

FOR THE BIG DECISIONS IN LIFE, YOU NEED TO REACH A DEEPER REGION OF CONSCIOUSNESS. MAKING DECISIONS THEN BECOMES NOT SO MUCH ABOUT 'DECIDING' AS ABOUT LETTING AN INNER WISDOM EMERGE. – Brian Arthur

Age is not the flight of years; it is the dawn of wisdom in the mind of man.

The inner voice of intuition speaks like a flash, it is always spontaneous and unannounced.

guidance on the question.

Age is not the flight of years; it is really the dawn of wisdom and Divine knowledge in you.