The best books... are those that tell you what you know already.
The original insight is most likely to come when elements stored in different compartments of the mind drift into the open, jostle one another, and now and then form new combinations.
If you do not yet know where you fit, I suggest you try seeking it in receptive silence. I used to walk amid the beauties of nature, just receptive and silent, and wonderful insights would come to me.
The sequence is suffering, insight, will, action, change.
The first act of insight is throw away the labels. In fiction, while we do not necessarily write about ourselves, we write out of ourselves, using ourselves; what we learn from, what we are sensitive to, what we feel strongly about--these become our characters and go to make our plots. Characters in fiction are conceived from within, and they have, accordingly, their own interior life; they are individuals every time.
Zen purposes to discipline the mind itself, to make it its own master, through an insight into its proper nature. This getting into the real nature of one's own mind or soul is the fundamental object of Zen Buddhism. Zen, therefore, is more than meditation and Dhyana in its ordinary sense. The discipline of Zen consists in opening the mental eye in order to look into the very reason of existence.
No one wants to know how clever you are. They don't want an insight into your mind, thrilling as it might be. They want an insight into their own.
We must not offer people a system of redemption, a set of insights and principles. We offer people a Redeemer.
Hard work leads to low returns. Insight and doing what we want lead to high returns.
Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana
Is insight dependent on a material process? Has insight a cause?
I have frequently gained my first real insight into the character of parents by studying their children.
The insight is born with anxiety, guilt and the joy and gratification that is inseparable from the actualizing of a new idea or vision.
The test of a true myth is that each time you return to it, new insights and interpretations arise.
No emotion or insight is too small to inflict on the world. Let it all fly. Don't let it eat you from the inside.
Imagination is the means of deep insight and sympathy, the power to conceive and express images removed from normal objective reality.
Insight is not the same as scientific deduction, but even at that it may be more reliable than statistics.
The method of political science is the interpretation of life; its instrument is insight, a nice understanding of subtle, unformulated conditions.
It is often we come the closest to the essence of an artist... in his or her pocket notebooks and travel sketchbooks... where written comments and personal notes provide an intimate insight into the magical mind of a working artist.
Insight into the two selves within a man clears up many confusions and contradictions. It was our understanding that preceded our victory.
Insight into soul-action, ability to discriminate the genuine from the sham and capacity to further one and discourage the other.
What is needed desperately today is prophetic insight. Scholars can interpret the past; it takes prophets to interpret the present.
The intelligent person depends on his own insight; he trusts his own being. He loves and respects himself.
Each of the world religions has its own particular genius, its own special insight into the nature and requirements of compassion, and has something unique to teach us.
Self-pity gets you nowhere. But insight to see that something can be done with the second-bests and adventurous daring to try might be a handle to take hold of.
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