Quotes About Insight

When you understand one thing through and through, you understand everything. When you try to understand everything, you will not understand anything. The

It is the readiness of the mind that is wisdom.

When we see a part of the moon covered by a cloud, or a tree, or a weed, we feel how round the moon is. But when we see the clear moon without anything covering it, we do not feel that roundness the same way we do when we see it through something else.

Those who find great difficulties in practicing Zen will find more meaning in it.

If you receive things just as an echo of yourself, you do not really see them, you do not fully accept them as they are.

There is no need to have a deep understanding of Zen.

Those who can sit perfectly physically usually take more time to obtain the true way of Zen, the actual feeling of Zen, the marrow of Zen.

Bodhidharma said, "In order to see a fish you must watch the water.

It is the people who are outside of the monastery who feel its atmosphere," writes the Zen master. "Those who are practicing actually do not feel anything.

Only the spoon knows what is stirring in the pot.

There's humor in the little things that people did. If you showed them how they looked when they did what they did, people would laugh.

An inquisitive mind is the only means of travelling from the world of expectations to Reality

Everyone is worried about what people might be thinking.... Successful people go a step further and focus on what no one is thinking about.

There is no point in being experienced, if you haven't learned anything.

Never value the valueless. The trick is to know how to recognize it.

The great disease of mankind is ignorance.

Look for a long time at what pleases you, and for a longer time at what pains you.

The fellowship of the reasonable is small.

Look into the depths of your own soul and learn first to know yourself, then you will understand why this illness was bound to come upon you and perhaps you will thenceforth avoid falling ill.

I consider it a good rule for letter-writing to leave unmentioned what the recipient already knows, and instead tell him something new.

From error to error one discovers the entire truth.

I appricated that Nell was talking to me like a grown-up, but I had no idea what she meant. Still, I could see that the words flowed together like water over a riverbed.

A signpost doesn't in and of itself represent the way to the village. We have to learn how to take it.

Judgement comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgement.