Quotes About Insight

There are things without explanation, moments when life will become arranged in such odd ways that you imagine a whole vocabulary of meaning inside them. The breakfast smell struck me like that.

For years I'd written down my dreams, believing, as I still do, that one of the purest sources of knowledge about our lives comes from the symbols and images deep within.

People who think dying is the worst thing don't know a thing about life. My

I liked the way Walter Cronkite looked, with his black glasses and his voice that knew everything worth knowing. Here was a man who was not against books, that was plain. Take everything T. Ray was not, shape it into a person, and you would get Walter Cronkite.

The body knows things a long time before the mind catches up to them. I was wondering what my body knew that I didn't

I pressed Yaltha to set a course, but she persisted in her waiting, saying if the pot was tended long enough, the answer would bubble to the surface.

Anybody who thinks dying is the worst thing doesn't know a thing about life.

I recall a story I love about Jung. One of his students came to him and asked: Professor, could you please tell me the shortest distance to my life goal? Without hesitation Jung replied, The detour.

The body knows things a long time before the mind catches up to them.

That's one of the worst things about living with brilliant people—they're so used to being right they don't really have experience being anything else.

I have noticed that, if you look carefully at people's eyes, the first five seconds they look at you, the truth of their feelings will shine through, for just an instant before it flickers away.

People who think dying is the worst thing don't know a thing about life

An idea suddenly sat in my head, sunning itself

Knock upon yourself as on a door, and walk upon yourself as on a straight road. For if you walk on that road, you cannot get lost, and what you open for yourself will open. GOSPEL OF THOMAS

I walked past the stable and carriage house. The path took me cross the whole map of the world I knew. I hadn't yet seen the spinning globe in the house that showed the rest of it. p7

As I form the words, it seems entirely possible that what I wanted all along was to answer the question myself.

and I suppose now that was part of the problem—my chronic inability to astonish myself.

Once you wake up, can you wake up any more?

Rouse him, and learn the principle of his activity or inactivity. Force him to reveal himself, so as to find out his vulnerable spots.

If you know the enemy and know yourself, your victory will not stand in doubt; if you know Heaven and know Earth, you may make your victory complete.

Great results, can be achieved with small forces.

Every battle is won before it's ever fought.

Know thy self, know thy enemy. A thousand battles, a thousand victories.

Foreknowledge cannot be gotten from ghosts and spirits, cannot be had by analogy, cannot be found out by calculation. It must be obtained from people, people who know the conditions of the enemy.