Quotes About Insight

Ser artista es más complicado de lo que parece —Dijo Úrsula. -Ser cualquiera es más complicado de lo que parece —Dijo Paul.

Poetic knowledge is born in the great silence of scientific knowledge.

I want to be violated by insight.

All that I need now is someone with the brains and the know-how to tell me what I want.

Only one percent of the world is visually blind, but 99 percent of the world is Spiritually blind.

People who don't understand want to know, but people who know, don't want to understand.

Those of us who have been with Jane the longest want to whisper to her, Look how that boy is seeing you. To show her how open he is to the possibility of who she might be, how attenuated to her gaps and omissions.

Silence is so much more productive of wisdom and clarity than thinking.

Wisdom is not learning but seeing clearly what can never be taught.

Each of us can know only a part of the whole that constitutes truth.

If you see things with real insight, then there is no stickiness in your relationship to them. They come, pleasant and unpleasant, you see them and there is no attachment, They come and they pass. Even if the worst kinds of defilement come up, such as greed or anger, there enough wisdom to see their impermanent nature and allow them to fade away. If you react to them, by liking or disliking, that is not wisdom. You're only creating more suffering for yourself.

The point is, the Four Stages are not for ego-development or attainment; they are a skilful means for recognizing the way we cling to things.

Simply In Depth......

There is nothing that says more about its creator than the work itself.

To be an artist means never to avert your eyes.

In other words, I did not—and still don't—have a completely personal, distinctive, way of looking at things.

To be an artist means never to avert one's eyes.

There is nothing that says more about its creator than the work itself. [Pg.189]

As I remember it, the fog-like substance that clouded my brain finally vanished as if blown away by the wind.

Any place that anyone can learn something useful from someone with experience is an educational institution.

The more I learn, the less I know: the less I know, the less I understand: the less I understand, the less I can relate; I know you're crazy.

I learned more stuff in church than I did in the world.

To paraphrase an old Afrikaans idiom; it is necessary to eat a bag of salt with these people to realise the extent of their misery and suffering within touching distance of one of the wealthiest little communities to be found on any continent. For those who wish to follow in my footsteps, it's all there for the taking but it requires moments of considerable insight, humility and understanding of the frailties of human nature. Some would call it compassion.

In the stress and strain of life today, with space rockets zooming, loudspeakers thundering in our ears, and a lot of other sounds, the voice of your subconscious goes unnoticed.