Clarity Quotes - Page 16

• After you run, there's a sense of accomplishment; you feel like your life is meaningful. It's a moment of clarity.

  Sakyong Mipham

  Meaningful, Running, Accomplishment

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• We can find true refuge within our own hearts and minds-right here, right now, in the midst of our moment-to-momen t lives. We find true refuge whenever we recognize the silent space of awareness behind all our busy doing and striving. We find refuge whenever our hearts open with tenderness and love. We find refuge whenever we connect with the innate clarity and intelligence of our true nature.

  Tara Brach

  Heart, Space, Mind

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• You have sole ownership of your vision. And the Universe will give you what you want within your vision. What happens with most people is that they muddy their vision with “reality”. Their vision becomes full of not only what they want but what everybody else thinks about what they want, too. Your work is to clarify and purify your vision so that the vibration that you are offering can then be answered.

  Esther Hicks

  Reality, Thinking, Offering

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• I played music practically my entire life. But the first time I ever really played music was with John and Robby and Jim That's where it happened. it was an epiphany, a moment of profound clarity

  Ray Manzarek

  Profound, Firsts, Moments

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• I'm at my strongest when I'm able to let go, when I suspend my beliefs as well as disbeliefs, and leave myself open to all possibilities. That also seems to be when I'm able to experience the most internal clarity and synchronicities.

  Anita Moorjani

  Letting Go, Able, Belief

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• I know whether or not I am confused most readily by noticing--being mindful of--my capacity for feeling caring concern. ... when I feel myself in caring connection--encouraging, consoling, or appreciating--I feel the twin pleasures of clarity and goodness. It doesn't matter if the connection I feel is to myself or a person I know or people I don't know or even the whole world. The lively impulse of caring is what counts. [p. 20]

  Sylvia Boorstein

  Confused, Caring, People

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• Writing is thinking. To write well is to think clearly. That's why it's so hard.

  David McCullough

  Writing, Thinking, Purpose

  Interview with Bruce Cole, www.neh.gov.

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• I have never had clarity; what I have always had is trust. So I will pray that you will trust God.

  Mother Teresa

  Trust In God, Praying

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• My aim is to be understood by everyone. I reject the 'depth' that people demand nowadays, into which you can never descend without a diving bell crammed with cabbalistic bullshit and intellectual metaphysics. This expressionistic anarchy has got to stop... A day will come when the artist will no longer be this bohemian, puffed-up anarchist but a healthy man working in clarity within a collectivist society.

  George Grosz

  Artist, Men, People

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• An ordinary mirror is silvered at the back but the window of the night train has darkness behind the glass. My face and the faces of other travellers were now mirrored on this darkness in a succession of stillnesses. Consider this, said the darkness: any motion at any speed is a succession of stillnesses; any section through an action will show just such a plane of stillness as this dark window in which your seeking face is mirrored. And in each plane of stillness is the moment of clarity that makes you responsible for what you do.

  Russell Hoban

  Dark, Night, Reflection

  Russell Hoban (2002). “The Medusa Frequency”, p.80, A&C Black

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• We have moments of such clarity, of such appreciation of the incredible web of interconnected events that carry us from breath to breath, day to day, as long as we live-and the next moment we fret about how much we weigh. Or who we didn't send a Valentine. Or who forgot to compliment the dinner. Or whatever.

  Sylvia Boorstein

  Appreciation, Valentine, Long

  Sylvia Boorstein, Ph.D. (2007). “Pay Attention, for Goodness' Sake: Practicing the Perfections of the Heart--The Buddhist Path of Kindness”, p.20, Ballantine Books

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• Love and ever more love is the only solution to every problem that comes up. If we love each other enough, we will bear with each other's faults and burdens. If we love enough, we are going to light that fire in the hearts of others. And it is love that will burn out the sins and hatreds that sadden us. It is love that will make us want to do great things for each other. No sacrifice and no suffering will then seem too much.

  Dorothy Day

  Love, Heart, Sacrifice

  "On Pilgrimage".

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• One way to determine if a view is inadequate is to check its consequences in particular cases, sometimes extreme ones, but if someone always decided what the result should be in any case by applying the given view itself, this would preclude discovering it did not correctly fit the case. Readers who hold they would plug in to the machine should notice whether their first impulse was not to do so, followed later by the thought that since only experiences could matter, the machine would be all right after all.

  Robert Nozick

  Views, Would Be, Machines

  Robert Nozick (1990). “Examined Life: Philosophical Meditations”, p.105, Simon and Schuster

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• Each of us is the sum of our scars.

  Matthew Woodring Stover

  Scar

  Matthew Woodring Stover (2008). “Blade of Tyshalle”, p.740, Del Rey

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• All the armed prophets conquered; all the unarmed ones perished.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Prophet, Unarmed

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• The City. Can't you hear it? People. Machines. Even thoughts so thick your bones feel it and your ear almost catches it.

  Barry Eisler

  Cities, People, Machines

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• There is chaos behind the civility, of course.

  Edward Albee

  Chaos, Civility, Behinds

  Edward Albee (2004). “The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia?: Broadway Edition”, p.64, The Overlook Press

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• He's the best of us. The best of our best, the best that each of us will ever build or ever love. So pray for this Guardian of our growth and choose him well, for if he be not truly blessed, then our designs are surely frivolous and our future but a tragic waste of hope. Bless our best and adore for he doth bear our measure to the Cosmos.

  John Steakley

  Blessed, Design, Growth

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• She obeys me, but only because she wants to. It's the only justification for obedience, Ged observed.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Ged, Want, Obedience

  Ursula K. Le Guin (2012). “Tehanu”, p.224, Simon and Schuster

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• If you are losing at a game, change the game.

  Gregory Benford

  Games, Losing, Ifs

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• With the wings of a bird and the heart of a man he compass'd his flight, And the cities and seas, as he flew, were like smoke at his feet. He lived a great life while we slept, in the dark of the night, And went home by the mariners' road, down the stars' empty street.

  Ernest Rhys

  Stars, Home, Heart

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• So the nature required to make a really noble Guardian of our commonwealth will be swift and strong, spirited, and philosophic.

  Plato

  Strong, Noble, Guardian

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• Plato described ordinary life as unthinking, lived in a dim cave of shadowy reflections, but said that it is possible to leave the cave and see things in sunlit clarity as they actually are.

  Huston Smith

  Plato, Reflection, Ordinary

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• If a man's mind becomes pure, his surroundings will also become pure.

  Gautama Buddha

  Inspirational, Men, Mind

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• True, but irrelevant.

  Barbara M. White

  Irrelevant

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