What really matters is:—1. Always try to use the language so as to make quite clear what you mean and make sure your sentence couldn’t mean anything else.2. Always prefer the plain direct word to...

Die, welche schwierige, dunkle, verflochtene, zweideutige Reden zusammensetzen, wissen ganz gewiss nicht recht, was sie sagen wollen, sondern haben nur ein dumpfes, nach einem Gedanken erst ringendes Bewusstsein davon; oft aber wollen sie sich selber...

A perfectly clear photograph is a distortion of reality.

You must read, you must persevere, you must sit up nights, you must inquire, and exert the utmost power of your mind. If one way does not lead to the desired meaning, take another; if...

relaxations increase our joy and we need meditations for inner peace and clarity

Thus it is said:The path into the light seems dark,the path forward seems to go back,the direct path seems long,true power seems weak,true purity seems tarnished,true steadfastness seems changeable,true clarity seems obscure,the greatest are seems...

Personally, I am always more impressed by simplicity, clarity; it is the mark of a writer who knows his subject well and is secure enough not to ‘lay it on’ in the telling. Aim for...

A lack of clarity could put the brakes on any journey to success.

I’m in no hurry: the sun and the moon aren’t, either.Nobody goes faster than the legs they have.If where I want to go is far away, I’m not there in an instant.(6/20/1919)

If the selection process is right and its members GOOD, then there could be no reason why the collection of the teammates be not BETTER and bright who would work in the BEST interest of...

I don’t know” is not confusion. Confusion is “I don’t know, but I should know” or “I don’t know, but I need to know.” When you fully accept that you don’t know, you actually enter...

(On the seeming futility of metaphysics) Why then has nature afflicted our reason with the restless striving for such a path, as if it were one of reason’s most important occupations? Still more, how little...

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?

Sometimes spending the night on the bathroom floor brings clarity to an otherwise cloudy situation.

Ich weiss, dass ich nichts weiss, und kaum das.

In the last few weeks, we have received some clarity from the commission and the monitoring trustee that has been very helpful.

He should be happy because he can think about the unhappiness of others!He’s stupid if he doesn’t know other people’s unhappiness is theirs,And isn’t cured from the outside,Because suffering isn’t like running out of ink,Or...

What is 34 in Reality, anyway?

All white represents unity and divine clarity.

Create space simply to beand clarity emerges for you to see.

When things feel murky and unsure, fine tuning our hearing so as to distinguish the voice of our Innermost Self brings clarity.

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

What you are, and who you are should provide greater clarity about where you have been and where you are headed. Although one distinguishes spiritual from physical nature, the ultimate unification of the two is...

The spectacular thing about Johnny [von Neumann] was not his power as a mathematician, which was great, or his insight and his clarity, but his rapidity; he was very, very fast. And like the modern...

The one time I had a moment of clarity was when my mom told me my soul was dying. I remember just screaming inside, but outside nothing would come out. [In my head I was...

It is much more rewarding to get to the top of the mountain and share your experience with others than to show up by yourself, exausted.

There’s consensus. There’s clarity. There’s cash. There is much better coordination. We should be able to deal with the bird flu epidemic much quicker and … if the pandemic comes, it will be smaller as...

Writers whose thoughts are expressed with clarity and precision are assumed by readers to be superficial. Where the meaning is obscured, then readers give more attention and consider the fruit of their labour more valuable

As I grew up, everything started getting grey and dull. I could still remember the amazing intensity of the world I’d lived in as a child, but I thought the dulling of perception was an...

…In books there’s always somebody standing by ready to say hey, the world’s in danger, evil’s on the rise, but if you’re really quick and take this ring and put it in that volcano over...

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

I experience a period of frightening clarity in those moments when nature is so beautiful. I am no longer sure of myself, and the paintings appear as in a dream

Something changed in part of reality — my knees and my hands.What science has knowledge for this?The blind man goes on his way and I don’t make any more gestures.It’s already not the same time,...

On the still calm waters of surrender, the reflections of clarity appear.

Begin. . . where you are, NOT where you want to be. Begin stuck in the doldrums of your false story–if that is where you are. Begin there because, in truth, there is no other...

There are seconds, they come only five or six at a time, and you suddenly feel the presence of eternal harmony, fully achieved. It is nothing earthly; not that it’s heavenly, but man cannot endure...

Most do not understand what sight is. The mind isn’t free. If you don’t want to see something, you simply just need to open your eyes.

I sat and asked God a question, never before now had I felt he was truly listening; Or was it i, that disrupted his appearance… Why God, must the treasures of our world be hard...

Confusion, when embraced, is the starting point for discovery, direction and decision.

If we were to gain God’s perspective, even for a moment, and were to look at the way we go through life accumulating and hoarding and displaying our things, we would have the same feelings...

Nothing at all reminds us of something else when we pay attention to it.Each thing only reminds us of what it isAnd it’s only what nothing else is.The fact that it’s it separates it from...

Why?” asked my master Caeiro.

Where was I last night? I don’t remember myself. I mean I remember me—I didn’t suffer from an out-of-body experience—but I myself don’t remember. I remember being there, but not where there was, or being...

Be the woman who is remembered for living life to its fullest!

We must continue to speak with clarity, … For while some Chinese dissidents have been released to exile in recent months, the Chinese government’s repression of dissent and religious freedom has not ceased.

I bow to purityBut what is pure?Show me purityI bow to clarityBut what is clear?Show me clarity

While learning others, respect demands that one never takes issue with another’s freedom to choose their ‘get down’ – their way of living… and don’t be mad. But carefully listen, observe, and compare mental notes...

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.

I am in the middle of it: chaos and poetry; poetry and love and again, complete chaos. Pain, disorder, occasional clarity; and at the bottom of it all: only love; poetry. Sheer enchantment, fear, humiliation....

It finally gives us the kind of specificity and clarity that we need in order to work in a constructive way and to move all these issues forward.