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Look at a full vivid painting, and look at an empty picture. If you can immediately see an entire universe within the empty picture, and absolutely nothing in the vivid painting, clarity is your friend. If you immediately see a full vivid painting and an empty picture, and see them for what they are, slavery is your friend.

Love shouldn’t require Windex to be clear. It either is or it isn’t.

Many words do not compensate for less articulation.

Maybe it's an addiction, she says, but she looks around her at meetings and she can't help thinking that meetings are good for people. They make people feel everything isn't such a muddle.

Many things become clearer with the perspective of maturity gained.

Most times, the way isn’t clear, but you want to start anyway. It is in starting with the first step that other steps become clearer.

My intellect would wish for a clear-cut universe with no dim corners, but there are these cobwebs in the cosmos.

More than the clarity we need to have about what MUST change, we need to have even more clarity about what MUST NOT change...

My objective is to create my own world and these images which we create mean nothing more than the images which they are. We have forgotten how to relate emotionally to art: we treat it like editors, searching in it for that which the artist has supposedly hidden. It is actually much simpler than that, otherwise art would have no meaning. You have to be a child—incidentally children understand my pictures very well, and I haven’t met a serious critic who could stand knee-high to those children. We think that art demands special knowledge; we demand some higher meaning from an author, but the work must act directly on our hearts or it has no meaning at all.

No matter what there always seems to be something clouding my existence, nothing is ever clear.

North Star: There's much more happiness to be had. Also clarity, energy, and fun. But doing this work is a necessary part of the process. It doesn't happen fast. It takes answering hard questions, time, and perhaps a trained ally.

Not all business is good business, and not every customer is a good customer.

Nothing at all reminds us of something else when we pay attention to it. Each thing only reminds us of what it is And it’s only what nothing else is. The fact that it’s it separates it from every other thing. (Everything’s nothing without another thing that’s not it).

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.

Nature never remembers, that’s why she’s beautiful.

Night doesn’t fall for my eyes But my idea of the night is that it falls for my eyes. Beyond my thinking and having any thoughts The night falls concretely And the shining of stars exists like it had weight.

Oh, the last time how clearly you see everything; as though a magnifying light had been turned on it. And you grieve because you hadn’t held it tighter when you had it every day.

One of the greatest secrets of great leaders; 'they are not controlled by what they cannot do'. They directed by what they can.

Once your fairytale gets shattered multiple times, life will finally paint reality in its place.

One runs the risk, whenever one opens one eyes, of not liking what one sees.

One runs the risk, whenever one opens ones eyes, of not liking what one sees.

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

Only pseudo-profundity seeks to be profound; true profundity seeks to be clear and simple.

(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 cause have we to place trust in our reason if in one of the most important parts of our desire for knowledge it does not merely forsake us but even entices us with delusions and in the end betrays us! Or if the path has merely eluded us so far, what indications may we use that might lead us to hope that in renewed attempts we will be luckier than those who have gone before us?

Our need for language, conversation, and definition goes beyond the wish to put things right. Through words we come to know the other person--and to be known. This knowing is at the heart of our deepest longings for intimacy and connection with others. How relationships unfold with the most important people in our lives depends on courage and clarity in finding voice. This is equally true for our relationship with our self. Even when we are not being heard, we may still need to know the sound of our own voice saying out loud what we really think.

People say the darkness is where secrets are best hidden. Night time brings clarity and focus to owls, even if the aperture of this vision comes with a stigma.

Perceive everything in life with the neutral perspective and see how everything can serve you to move forward on your path.

Nothing will hold you back because you expect the unexpected. With a clear vision for your life, you are better prepared to combat any opposition.

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

Our challenge as adults is to develop a strong voice that is uniquely our own, a voice that reflects our deepest values and convictions. Once we are comfortable within that voice, we can bring it to our most important relationships. We can choose to move to the center of a difficult conversation--or we can let it go. We can speak--or decide not to. Whatever we choose, we can head back to the sandbox with clarity, wisdom, and intention. By doing so, we can strengthen the self and our connections, and have the best chance of achieving happiness during our time with each other.

Out of calmness comes clarity.

people either affect you for the better or infect you for the worse.

Philosophy should make clear and delimit sharply the thoughts which otherwise are, as it were, opaque and blurred.

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

Sanity begins with knowing your place.

Pushing our self past our boundaries of limitation and extreme, sometimes to something that knocks off our comfort zone, it creates new neuro pathways with our brain, we become smarter, wiser, more clarity, our life becomes more fulfilling. Only because we have a totally new experience. We get a new brain with that. Neuroplasticity

Prose lies its way to the truth

She was fierce in the presence of death, heroic even, as she was at no other time. Its threat gave her direction, clarity, audacity.

Seeing all life in perfect symmetry. Perceiving each day with righteous clarity. Living each moment in purposed reality. Believing each day is the start of eternity.

Sin, in its simplest definition, is the misuse or abuse of anything GOD created.

So about an hour later we are in the taxi shooting along empty country roads towards town. The April light is clear as an alarm. As we pass them it gives a sudden sense of every object existing in space on its own shadow. I wish I could carry this clarity with me into the hospital where distinctions tend to flatten and coalesce. I wish I had been nicer to him before he got crazy. These are my two wishes.

She’s a manner of speaking. Even the flowers don’t come back, or the green leaves. There are new flowers, new green leaves. There are other beautiful days. Nothing comes back, nothing repeats itself, because everything is real.

Simply put, meditation is the path to clarity, compassion, and a path of wisdom leading to the eradication of suffering.

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, or the same people, or anything the same. This is being real.

Sometimes enlightenment descends upon you when you least expect it...

Sometimes it’s the dirt between your toes that gives you the clearest picture in your mind. Grounding yourself aligns the dirt between your toes and the vision in your mind.

Sometimes one sees things clearly years afterwards than one could possibly at the time.

Sometimes something that you've been asking for It's just something that you could not see before. For it was something that made you belong, And that was there the whole time all along.

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

Sometimes the waters of our spirits are churned and murky, and it is difficult to tap the reservoirs of our innate wisdom and knowledge. But the waters will settle as we do. Quietly and gently encourage yourself to go inside. Clarity will come.