Quotes About Insight

When we point out illiterate mistakes we are often aggressively instructed to "get a life" by people who, interestingly, display no evidence of having lives themselves. Naturally we become timid about making our insights known, in such inhospitable conditions.

Once someone has shown you a convincingly different way of looking at the world, it's hard to remember how you saw it before.

Seeing and admitting the truth about ourselves, about our role in creating our own problems, and about how we relate to others is vital for healing.

The path of spiritual growth is a path of lifelong learning.

The fact of the matter is that our unconscious is wiser than we are about everything.

If there were but one thing I could hope for from the reader of the remainder of this book, it would be that he or she possesses the capacity to perceive the miraculous.

If you work long enough and hard enough to understand yourself, you will come to discover that this vast part of your mind, of which you now have little awareness, contains riches beyond imagination.

Because I begin from the premise that people are too complex for simple explanations. It is the habit of simplifying people that leads so many astray in their quest for understanding. You can't learn a person you've decided you already understand.

The owl," he was saying, "is one of the most curious creatures. A bird that stays awake when the rest of the world sleeps. They can see in the dark. I find that so interesting, to be mired in reality when the rest of the world is dreaming. What does he see and what does he know that the rest of the world is missing?

you have all the hallmarks of a seeker...You chase special knowledge. You find threads of connections and then share them with people who need them. I can read it in the way you looked at me, the questions you ask, but more importantly, the ones you don't.

We see what we want to see when we look at someone. Like a diamond before it has been cut. We can guess at its brilliance but can't see the faults until the stone has been cut and polished. Only then can we glimpse inside and see the occlusions and the clarity. 

The good man never wrote or read a sermon, but talked to his people as one who would meet what was in them with what was in him.

A man's eye serves as a photography to the invisible, as well as his ear serves as echo to the silence.

His eyes, blind to external reality but highly perceptive in the realm of the inner life, rose from the book to the ceiling and returned to the book.

não basta ver uma mulher para a conhecer, é preciso ouvi-la também; ainda que muitas vezes basta ouvi-la para a não conhecer jamais.

Em verdade vos digo que toda a sabedoria humana não vale um par de botas curtas.

concluo que um dos ofícios do homem é fechar e apertar muito os olhos, e ver se continua pela noite velha o sonho truncado na noite moça.

Deus te livre, leitor, de uma ideia fixa; antes um argueiro, antes uma trave no olho.

God save you, dear reader, from an idée fixe, better a speck, a mote in the eye

Um astrólogo contemplava os astros, com tamanha atenção, que caiu num poço. Uma velha da Trácia vendo-o cair, soltou esta exclamação: Se ele não via o que lhe estava aos pés, para que havia de investigar o que lá fica tão em cima!

Every one sees what you appear to be, few really know what you are.

Men judge generally more by the eye than by the hand, for everyone can see and few can feel. Every one sees what you appear to be, few really know what you are.

De modo geral, os homens julgam mais com os olhos do que com o tato: todos podem ver, mas poucos são capazes de sentir. Todos veem nossa aparência, poucos sentem o que realmente somos [...]

We do not know what things look like. We know what things are like. It must be a very limiting thing,this seeing. -Aunt Beast