Quotes About Insight

It is not the clear-sighted who lead the world. Great achievements are accomplished in a blessed, warm mental fog.

My task… to make you hear, to make you feel—it is, before all, to make you see. That—and no more, and it is everything.

My dad once told me that women know things that men don't. That sometimes they have a certain look in their eyes, but when you see it, you should never ask them what they're thinking. If you do they might tell you something you don't want to hear.

We dream to see the truth at the heart of life.

I would like to thank everyone who is mentioned in this book for being part of the story of our relationship, particularly Mike's parents, Sharron and Bill Herbert. I am grateful, as well, to Toby Johnson for his insightful comments

We use books like mirrors, gazing into them only to discover ourselves.

I am afraid I am one of those people who continues to read in the hope of sometime discovering in a book a single—and singular—piece of wisdom so penetrating, so soul stirring, so utterly applicable to my own life as to make all the bad books I have read seem well worth the countless hours spent on them. My guess is that this wisdom, if it ever arrives, will do so in the form of a generalization.

As experience widens, one begins to see how much upon a level all human things are.

Heller," he called after me. "I don't know what you have up your sleeve, but I suggest you not bother. Like Sun Tzu said: 'All battles are won or lost before they're fought.

Every time we become aware of a thought, as opposed to being lost in a thought, we experience that opening of the mind.

Just as the light of a single candle can dispel the darkness of a thousand years, the moment we light a single candle of wisdom, no matter how long or deep our confusion, ignorance is dispelled.

You're a little short on self-awareness. People who are always exacting right behaviour from other people tend to be that way.

Close your eyes and see.

Questions show the mind's range, and answers its subtlety.

How many people make themselves abstract to appear profound. The most useful part of abstract terms are the shadows they create to hide a vacuum.

Imagination is the eye of the soul.

Give me a half hour's conversation. I will know more than I will reading 20 magazines.

In the end, wisdom is born of weakness as well as strength.

The obscurest sayings of the truly great are often those which contain the germ of the profoundest and most useful truths. Genius rapidly traverses the living present to bury itself in the deepest mysteries of the universe; often making the grandest discoveries at a single glance.

It was also during this time in my remote viewing development that I began to see things out of the corner of my eye.

remote viewing is the ability to produce information that is correct about a place, event, person, object, or concept which is located somewhere else in time/space, and which is completely blind to the remote viewer and others taking part in the process of collecting the information.

We read not to escape, but to go deeper into life.

The infinite intelligence in your subconscious can give you access to wonderful new kinds of knowledge.

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