clear insight Quotes

To understand the actual world as it is, not as we should wish it to be, is the beginning of wisdom.

The obvious is that which is never seen until someone expresses it simply.

Success is a refined study of the obvious

Obscurity, indeed, is painful to the mind as well as to the eye; but to bring light from obscurity, by whatever labour, must needsbe delightful and rejoicing.

A truth discovered always seems so plain and simple that we wonder why the discovery was so long delayed.

One must not attempt to justify them, but rather to sense their nature simply and clearly.

Things always become obvious after the fact

Hyesims poems: transformative as walking high granite mountains by moonlight, with fragrant herbs underfoot and a thermos of clear tea in the backpack. Their bedrock is thusness, their images beauty is pellucid and new, their view without limit. The shelf of essential Zen poets for American readers grows larger with this immediately indispensable collection.

Drop your false ideas. See through people. If you see through yourself, you will see through everyone. Then you will love them. Otherwise you spend the whole time grappling with your wrong notions of them, with your illusions that are constantly crashing against reality.

It is natural to give a clear view of the world after accepting the idea that it must be clear.

One must not attempt to justify them, but rather to sense their nature simply and clearly.

Think of it this way: There are two kinds of failure. The first comes from never trying out your ideas because you are afraid, or because you are waiting for the perfect time. This kind of failure you can never learn from, and such timidity will destroy you. The second kind comes from a bold and venturesome spirit. If you fail in this way, the hit that you take to your reputation is greatly outweighed by what you learn. Repeated failure will toughen your spirit and show you with absolute clarity how things must be done.

A man of correct insight among those who are duped and deluded resembles one whose watch is right while all the clocks in the town give the wrong time.

Crime, folly, sickness and all phenomena must be contemplated with complete freedom from fear aversion or shame. Otherwise we shall fail to see accurately, and interpret intelligently; in which case we shall be unable to outwit and outfight them.

The spirit of truth will do more to bring persons to light and knowledge, than flowery words.

We should do whatever we can to cut through the scum that has grown on our understanding and rediscover freshness.

To a clear eye the smallest fact is a window through which the infinite may be seen.