Quotes about Clarity

By some men's too much understanding, others are brought to understand nothing at all.

There is this quality, in things, of the right way seeming wrong at first.

This life is the one to be lived now, that much is crystal-clear. What did Thoreau supposedly say—'One world at a time'?

The only way to get somewhere, you know, is to figure out where you're going before you go there.

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.

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.

how I conveyed information was often as important as the information itself.

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.

As you begin befriending your breath, you see immediately that unawareness is everywhere.

TRY: Asking yourself in this moment, "Am I awake?," "Where is my mind right now?

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.

Even the tiniest manifestation of mindfulness in any moment might give rise to an intuition or insight that could be hugely transforming.