Quotes About Insight

I know. I get it. Because when I knew but they didn't know I knew, that was good. But when they knew that I knew but I didn't know they knew, that was bad. But now that I know they know that I know, and they don't know it, it's good again.

Literature is the history of the soul.

I think women are closer to God than we are. They walk right out there like they know what they're doing.

El error puede indicar el camino de la verdad, mientras que una cabeza hueca sólo conduce a una cabeza más hueca o bien a una carrera política.

The best jokes are often only understood by one other person.

You can sit for a long time with the history of man like a stone in your hand. The stillness, the pure light, encourage it.

we have a way of talking about beauty as though beauty were only skin deep. But real beauty is so deep you have to move into darkness in order to understand what beauty is.-Barry Lopez, Interview with Bill Moyers, Journal, April 30, 2010

In general, human beings are remarkably bad at predicting how various experiences will make them feel.

Without wisdom, brilliance is not enough.

visions are almost always believed by the people who experience them.

Prophecy is the gift of God and everyone has a smidge of it.

if you continue to write fiction, every character you create is partly you.

Don't let your good nature cloud your critical eye. The critical eye should always be cold and clear.

To fully understand about hugging, maybe you had to have missed a lot of it.

Learning itself is a present, you know.

I also know it`s true, that thing about how perception switches around and we come to realize that the things we thought we were holding are actually holding us.

Most readers will probably have experienced instances of the rehearsal function of dreams. By dreaming about a significant, upcoming event in advance, we can try out various approaches, attitudes, and behaviors, perhaps arriving at a more effective course of action than we otherwise would have. We may also be forewarned of certain potential aspects in a future situation that we otherwise would not have imagined or considered.

The basis of the practice is to directly participate in each moment as it occurs with as much awareness and understanding as possible.

A drop of pond water under the microscope just like in science class but now your are the pond & the microscope is mindfulness

the third eye... our sacred Cyclops... our good eye, the only one that can see beyond our conditioned ways of seeing. It is, of course, a knowing eye, not a seeing one. It is the eye through which we look within to experience the universe unfolding. It is the single eye that concentrates duality into the One: the eye of insight, the locus of the point of remembrance on the ascent to death, as well as the point of forgetfulness on the descent into birth.

But the truth is, when it comes to emotional pain—the pain that registers inside—the greatest damage is often the thing that continues to resonate when the feeling of the pain subsides. It is that message that the pain tells us about ourselves and about the meaning of our lives.

It is a great art of living to be able to hear truth in the mouth of your enemies. Even those who hate you and mean to hurt you may still be right about what they see in your life. Though they shout their observations and probably intend them to wound you rather than help you, still they are giving you insight that can help you improve.

Churchill wrote, "In my belief, you cannot deal with the most serious things in the world unless you also understand the most amusing.

Merely having an open mind is nothing; the object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.