Clarity Quotes

Through the many years of what I thought was 'searching', was really the process of 'awakening'.

~ Ka Chinery

Clarity is like casting light. Clarity allows us to see better and eases the path of understanding. And just as one light source need not deny the illumination of another but can add to it, the understanding gained through one explanation can stand to gain from another, even if it is different in approach. The truth is more exclusive...

~ Cyrus Panjvani

Understanding is a pure glass of water. All great truths have no taste. Hints of sweetness are coloured by the need for amazement.

~ Ben Okri

The only personal branding consultant who can ever hope to have a clear understanding of you and your value can be found in the mirror.

~ Ryan Lilly

Taking the one seat describes two related aspects of spiritual work. Outwardly, it means selecting one practice and teacher among all the possibilities, and inwardly, it means having the determination to stick with that practice through whatever difficulties and doubts arise until you have come to true clarity and understanding.

~ Jack Kornfield

If God wants something from me, he would tell me. He wouldn't leave someone else to do this, as if an infinite being were short on time. And he would certainly not leave fallible, sinful humans to deliver an endless plethora of confused and contradictory messages. God would deliver the message himself, directly, to each and every one of us, and with such clarity as the most brilliant being in the universe could accomplish. We would all hear him out and shout Eureka! So obvious and well-demonstrated would his message be. It would be spoken to each of us in exactly those terms we would understand. And we would all agree on what that message was.

~ Richard C. Carrier

It may be necessary to stand on the outside of one is to see things clearly.

~ Peter Høeg

The journey is the mystery…the destination the answer. If you don’t have a happy ending yet, you have not finished reading the right book.

~ Shannon L. Alder

If you can simply drop yourself from the moment, you can still experience life and with more clarity.

~ Roshan Sharma

Leaving the world behind is the best experience most feeble minds fear to try.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

With increased self-awareness comes focus... We become selective. We refrain from jumping to grab every opportunity that comes on our way...

~ Assegid Habtewold

To make the distinction unmistakably clear: Civilization is the vital force in human history; culture is that inert mass of institutions and organizations which accumulate around and tend to drag down the advance of life; Civilization is Giordano Bruno facing death by fire; culture is the Cardinal Bellarmino, after ten years of inquisition, sending Bruno to the stake in the Campo di Fiori...

~ Edward Abbey

There are times in relationships, when we blow it. In spite of our best intentions, we wrong others. Our jealousy makes us feel inferior. Our own wounds cause us to act irrationally. Our insecurities lead us to say hurtful things. And so, we find ourselves acting out. In short, we cloud our lives with muddy water. We trash around the pond of our emotions until things are just too messed up to figure out how to fix them.It is in the times of muddy water that we learn how to wait it out. We have to wait until the mud settles. We must wait until we can clearly see where the water of our lives ends and the mud of misplaced emotions begin. Have the patience to wait until the mud settles. Be still until the water is clear. In clear water, words come. Right actions reveal them selves and healing appears.---From the Devotional A Word in Season

~ Stella Payton

Minister: As I was saying, Alex, you can be instrumental in changing the public verdict. Do you understand, Alex? Have I made myself clear?Alex: As an unmuddied lake, Fred. As clear as an azure sky of deepest summer. You can rely on me, Fred.

~ Anthony Burgess

When people will not weed their own minds, they are apt to be overrun by nettles.

~ Horace Walpole

But as I began to write this book, I realised that without the whole truth my life would have no power, no real meaning. With the help of my mother, the memories of our lives in North Korea and China cane back to me like scenes from a forgotten nightmare. Some of the images reappeared with a terrible clarity; others were hazy, or scrambled like a deck of cards spilled on the floor. The process of writing has been the process of remembering, and of trying to make sense out of those memories.

~ Yeonmi Park

It is a great evil to look upon mankind with too clear vision. You seem to be living among wild beasts, and you become a wild beast yourself. (“The Story of Prince Alasi and the Princess Firouzkah”)

~ William Beckford

How good it is, when you have roast meat or suchlike foods before you, to impress on your mind that this is the dead body of a fish, this the dead body of a bird or pig.

~ Marcus Aurelius

Learn to see past the flaws and you will understand the perfection of the Universe.

~ Ka Chinery

Then the clarifying thing happens, and what you need to do, what you must do, is not a question, not demand more revelation than what is given, be quiet in the face of it, quiet and grateful that it has been given to you to see this, to be for even a short time aware of the extraordinary layered depths and profound beauty of the world to which we mostly blind ourselves.

~ Dean Koontz

The only antidote to the unnerving effects of such incoherence is integrity. People and organizations with integrity are wholly themselves. No aspect of self stands different or apart. At their center is clarity, not conflict. When they go inside to find themselves, there is only one self there.

~ Margaret Wheatley

Alas, is even Love too weak to unlock the heart and let it speak? Are even lovers powerless to reveal To one another what indeed they feel?

~ Matthew Arnold

Consider meekness as a character trait to develop and then you will leave a leagcy as a leader who influenced and touched lives.

~ #Name?

Ironically, the only way to see clearly is to stand at a distance. You might be focused, but that doesn't mean you are seeing correctly. Sometimes, you have you to grab the camera from the idiot taking all the shots in your life because they don't realize the lens is dirty.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Choosing beauty and love does not mean being uninformed or weak; it means you clearly see the ugliness, but choose love anyway.

~ Bryant Mcgill

By choosing to have a calm response to what seems negative you bring clarity and balance to your message.

~ Bryant Mcgill

The coolness of Buddhism isn't indifference but the distance one gains on emotions, the quiet place from which to regard the turbulence. From far away you see the pattern, the connections, and the thing as whole, see all the islands and the routes between them. Up close it all dissolves into texture and incoherence and immersion, like a face going out of focus just before a kiss.

~ Rebecca Solnit

I’ve often wondered how the term “'New Atheism”' gained such currency. It is a misnomer. There is nothing new about nonbelief. All of us, without exception, are born knowing nothing of God or gods, and acquire notions of religion solely through interaction with others – or, most often, indoctrination by others, an indoctrination usually commencing well before we can reason. Our primal state is, thus, one of nonbelief. The New Atheists (most prominently Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris and the late Christopher Hitchens) have, in essence, done nothing more than try to bring us back to our senses, to return us to a pure and innate mental clarity.

~ Jeffrey Tayler

Concerning the gods I cannot know either that they exist or that they do not exist, or what form they might have, for there is much to prevent one's knowing: the obscurity of the subject and the shortness of man's life.

~ Protagoras

To receive, you must be active. Keep in mind your purpose. You will receive in direct proportion to your clarity of vision, your definiteness of purpose, the steadiness of your faith, and the depth of your gratitude.

~ John-Roger

When you meet a dark angel don't you ever for one minute believe they are bad because they have faced the worst demons and lived to guide you through yours. It really isn't an easy job they have been asked to do, but then neither was standing on the front line during the war in heaven.

~ Shannon L. Alder

...I look out at the world through your transparent face...

~ John Geddes

I am happiest when I clear my mind and allow the world around me to reteach me what I thought I already knew.

~ Vironika Tugaleva

One thought fixed upon the mind will be better than 50 thoughts flittering across the ear.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

(I. F. Stone had once called it an exciting paper to read because you never knew on what page you would find a page-one story)

~ David Halberstam

Everyone else was trying to make things more complicated and Cronkite, typically, was trying to make them more simple.

~ David Halberstam

�Communication and a clear mutual understanding between two or more people builds the best route to success in any venture. I don’t expect…* immediate action, * instant perfection, * total comprehension* complete implementation, or * flawless execution. I do expect the best communication and honest effort to create the best plans for the best results while being able to stay on the same page as much as possible. If that concept doesn’t work for you, then you won’t be working with me.

~ Loren Weisman

I've always admired people who give accurate directions, and the tribe is small.

~ Pat Conroy

a story always sounds clear enough at a distance, but the nearer you get to the scene of events the vaguer it becomes.

~ George Orwell

And the view was suddenly clear to me. The world opened out to its grim beyonds and I realized that, at forty, one must learn the rigors of acceptance. Capitalize it: Acceptance. I needed to accept what was put before me--be it a watery grave in Ireland's only natural fjord, or a return to the city and its grayer intensities, or a wordless exile in some steaming Cambodian swamp hole, or poems or no poems, or children or not, lovers or not, illness or otherwise, success or its absence. I would accept all that was put in my way, from here on through until I breathed my last.

~ Kevin Barry