Quotes about Clarity
By some men's too much understanding, others are brought to understand nothing at all.
- John Owen
There is this quality, in things, of the right way seeming wrong at first.
- John Updike
This life is the one to be lived now, that much is crystal-clear. What did Thoreau supposedly say—'One world at a time'?
- John Updike
The only way to get somewhere, you know, is to figure out where you're going before you go there.
- John Updike
He decides to walk around the block, to clear his head and pick his path. Funny, how what makes you move is so simple and the field you must move in is so crowded.
- John Updike
Skeeter stands and tries to comprehend this man. "Trouble with you, he sees, "you still cluttered up with common sense. Common sense is bullshit, man. It gets you through the days all right, but it leaves you alone at night. It keeps you from knowing.
- John Updike
how I conveyed information was often as important as the information itself.
- John Wooden
Four things a man must learn to do If he would make his life more true: To think without confusion clearly, To love his fellow-man sincerely, To act from honest motives purely, To trust in God and Heaven securely.
- John Wooden
As you begin befriending your breath, you see immediately that unawareness is everywhere.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn
TRY: Asking yourself in this moment, "Am I awake?," "Where is my mind right now?
- Jon Kabat-Zinn
It is not that mindfulness is the "answer" to all life's problems. Rather, it is that all life's problems can be seen more clearly through the lens of a clear mind.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn
Even the tiniest manifestation of mindfulness in any moment might give rise to an intuition or insight that could be hugely transforming.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn