Quotes About Insight

Bu alemin tezahürlerini d??ar? vermediklerine bak?p onlar?n manen ya?amad?klar?na hükmedecek yerde, en basit bir be?er tecessüsü ile, bu meçhul alemi merak etsek, belki hiç ummad???m?z ?eyler görmemiz, beklemedi?imiz zenginliklerle kar??la?mam?z mümkün olur. Fakat insanlar nedense daha ziyade ne bulacaklar?n? tahmin ettikleri ?eyleri ara?t?rmay? tercih ediyorlar.

Our wisdom comes from our experience, and our experience comes from our foolishness.

The little I know, I owe to my ignorance.

The most incredible thing is that you can know everything you wish to know with your eyes closed.

If you handle your entire life with logic alone, you will end up a mess.

I couldn't help noticing that people coming out of restaurants always had more joyful faces than those coming out of temples. That intrigued me.

One should use information and logic as a drunkard would use a lamp post – only for support, not for illumination.

So the whole process of spirituality is just about enhancing your perception. Unfortunately if I use the word 'spirituality,' people think they will have to chant or go sit in the temple, church or mosque, or that they have to give up their food and clothing. Spirituality is not about that. It's about enhancing your perception. The

Intuition is not a different dimension of perception, as people usually try to make out. Intuition is just a quicker way of arriving at the same answer. Intuition is just a way of making use of the data and jumping the steps.

Different people need different kinds of impetus. If they are sensible, they learn by just looking. If they are not sensible, they learn by a thrashing. Life will thrash them.

If creativity has to happen, we have to develop a certain level of un-distortedness in the mind. If you carry the baggage of life with you all the time, you cannot see anything the way it is.

The ability to simply look without motive is missing in the world today.

Seeking is not about looking for something. It is about enhancing your perception, your very faculty of seeing.

It is a distorted perception if you think that just by looking through a keyhole, you have seen the world.

Whenever the need to know any dimension of life presented itself, at that moment, the answers were always there within me. Life has always been like that for me.

Truth does not change, only our awareness of it.

It is like a two-edged sword. It cuts into you. It causes you great pain, but if you can take the truth, it will cure you and save you from what otherwise be certain death.

Of all our studies, history is best qualified to reward our research.

An innate gift and a certain amount of intelligence are important, but what really pays is ordinary experience.

Good writing does not fail or succeed on the strength of its ability to persuade. Not the kind of writing that you'll find in this book, anyway. It succeeds or fails on the strength of its ability to engage you, to make you think, to give you a glimpse into someone else's head -- even if in the end you conclude someone else's head is not a place you'd really like to be. from intro to What The Dog Saw

Todos veem o que tu aparentas, poucos sentem aquilo que tu és.

para bem conhecer o caráter do povo, é preciso ser príncipe e, para bem entender o do príncipe, é preciso ser do povo.

Marc Aronson

C'est ça être un ami, non ? Savoir deviner quand l'autre vous dit le contraire de ce qu'il pense au fond de lui.