Quotes About Insight

When wiggling through a hole the world looks different than when scrubbed clean by the wiggle and looking back.

Help me resist the urge to dispute whether things are true or false which is like arguing whether it is day or night. It is always one or the other somewhere in the world. Together, we can penetrate a higher truth which like the sun is always being conveyed.

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes. —MARCEL PROUST

being articulate is not a facility of language but a fidelity to vision. And so we are all articulate when finding the courage to say what we see.

The inner life of any great thing will be incomprehensible to me until I develop and deepen an inner life of my own.

I was born with the ability to see in metaphor.

Whatever is held and listened to will show us where it lives in the world and in us.

feelings and times long gone come and live again, or basic truths hard to keep in view return.

Stop talking, stop thinking, and there is nothing you will not understand. —SENG-TS'AN

However, I don't think that we should let the task or goal become the end-all to a training session, either. If things aren't going well, maybe it's time to listen to what our horse is trying to tell us. It could very well be that he has the answer to why things aren't going well, and if we give him half a chance, perhaps he'll tell us what that is. I have seen so many horses almost

Writing a novel creates a window to a new way of looking at the world. Reading one means looking through that window.

A reader wants, above all, to feel a range of emotions--excitement, love, hate, misery, and everything in between them; wants to breathe characters' air & see the world through their eyes.

I feel that one of the most important lessons that can be learned is that what we see may be different than what is actually in front of us.

If animals could speak, the dog would be a blundering outspoken fellow; but the cat would have the rare grace of never saying a word too much.

When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.

A person that started in to carry a cat home by the tail was getting knowledge that was always going to be useful to him, and warn't ever going to grow dim or doubtful.

Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed.

Good judgement is the result of experience and experience the result of bad judgement.

What limpid lakes and cool date palms may our caravans have passed untried? Until, one by one, by the blindest of leaps, we light on the road to these places, we must stumble in darkness and hunger.

Usually it is a bit of a trick to keep your knowledge from blinding you.

The world has locusts, and the world has grasshoppers. I was up to my knees in the world

If you can't see the forest for the trees, then look at the trees; when you've looked at enough trees, you've seen a forest, you've got it.

D'avoir reçu les clés pour comprendre la honte ne donne pas le pouvoir de l'effacer.

Books were not an expense; they were an investment.