Insight Quotes - Page 38

• Insight, I believe, refers to the depth of understanding that comes by setting experiences, yours and mine, familiar and exotic, new and old, side by side, learning by letting them speak to one another.

  Mary Catherine Bateson

  Believe, Diversity, Understanding

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• There is a wealth of information built into us ... tucked away in the genetic material in every one of our cells ... without some means of access, there is no way even to begin to guess at the extent and quality of what is there. The psychedelic drugs allow exploration of this interior world, and insights into its nature.

  Alexander Shulgin

  Mean, Cells, Drug

  Alexander Shulgin, Ann Shulgin (1995). “Pihkal: A Chemical Love Story”

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• I know how hard it is for you to put food on your family.

  George W. Bush

  Stupid, Silly, Inspiration

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• I have been reading the Old Testament, a most bloodthirsty and perilous book for the young. Jehovah is beyond doubt the worst character in fiction.

  Edwin Arlington Robinson

  Wisdom, Book, Reading

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• I am not sure how many "sins" I would recognize in the world. Some would surely be defused by changed circumstances. But I can imagine none that is more irredeemably sinful than the betrayal, the exploitation, of the young by those who should care for them.

  Elizabeth Janeway

  Wisdom, Betrayal, Advice

  Elizabeth Janeway (1982). “Cross sections from a decade of change”, William Morrow & Co

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• Family . . . the home of all social evil, a charitable institution for comfortable women, an anchorage for house-fathers, and a hell for children.

  August Strindberg

  Family, Wisdom, Children

  1886 The Son of a Servant.

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• For two thousand years Christianity has been telling us: life is death, death is life; it is high time to consult the dictionary.

  Remy de Gourmont

  Wisdom, Years, Two

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• Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

  George Santayana

  Change, Wisdom, Memories

  The Life of Reason vol. 1, ch. 12 (1905)

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• We cannot will to have insights. We cannot will to have creativity, but we can will to give ourselves to the creative experience with intensity of dedication and commitment.

  Rollo May

  Commitment, Creativity, Dedication

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• For the spiritual being, intuition is far more than a hunch. It is viewed as guidance or as God talking, and this inner insight is never taken lightly or ignored.

  Wayne Dyer

  Spiritual, Taken, Talking

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• When I was fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have him around. When I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years. See what happens when you "know it all", at any stage of life? Farther down the track you may see clearly how certain personal opinions, held onto too tightly, could be fogging up the view, and providing incorrect insight. Prosperity is the best protector of principle.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational Life, Father, Personal Opinions

  Attributed in Reader's Digest, Sept. 1937. The attribution to Twain is obviously spurious because Twain's father died when the future writer was eleven years old.

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• It may seem hard to extend our gratefulness and appreciation to the time in which we live and the challenges it presents... It would be much easier to appreciate an era of good feeling, peace and calm stability! But difficult times are also times of growth, of new insights and opportunities, of creativity, and of emergence.

  David Spangler

  Life, Appreciation, Creativity

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• Multi-sensory perception is also the ability to see meaning in everyday experiences...You have non-physical guides and teachers. You access them through your intuition. You hear them 'so to speak' through your insights, inspirations, and clarity. Non-physical teachers cannot control you. You must always decide for yourself how you will use your energy, what you will create. They will assist you to see your choices and the consequences of each. They will guide you to the full scope and depth of your power. How you use your power is up to you.

  Gary Zukav

  Teacher, Inspiration, Choices

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• Intuition makes much of it; I mean by this the faculty of seeing a connection between things that in appearance are completely different; it does not fail to lead us astray quite often.

  Andre Weil

  Mean, Intuition, Connections

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• Watch your own body and mind, and the people and things surrounding you, from the deep, calm place inside of you. When you do that you'll have insights as to what you need to do in order to flow with the river of life around you.

  Ken Keyes Jr.

  Order, Rivers, People

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• Stillness, insight, and wisdom arise only when we can settle into being complete in this moment, without having to seek or hold on to or reject anything.

  Jon Kabat-Zinn

  Wisdom, Understanding, Moments

  Jon Kabat-Zinn (2005). “Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life”, Hyperion

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• I've always been inspired by Dr. Martin Luther King, who articulated his Dream of an America where people are judged not by skin color but "by the content of their character." In the scientific world, people are judged by the content of their ideas. Advances are made with new insights, but the final arbitrator of any point of view are experiments that seek the unbiased truth, not information cherry picked to support a particular point of view.

  Steven Chu

  Dream, Kings, Truth

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• The suppression of uncomfortable ideas may be common in religion or in politics, but it is not the path to knowledge; it has no in the endeavor of science. We do not know in advance who will discover fundamental insights.

  Carl Sagan

  Knowledge, Science, Ideas

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• People who alter or destroy works of art and our cultural heritage for profit or as an exercise of power are barbarians.

  George Lucas

  Art, Real, Inspiration

  "George Lucas offers a compelling argument against George Lucas" by Sean O'Neal, news.avclub.com. September 1, 2011.

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• I look upon the pleasure which we take in a garden as one of the most innocent delights in human life. . . It gives us a great insight into the contrivance and wisdom of Nature, and suggests innumerable subjects for meditation.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Garden, Giving, Meditation

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• Surrender is not something that you can do. If you do it, it is not surrender, because the doer is there. Surrender is a great understanding that, "I am not." Surrender is an insight that the ego exists not, that, "I am not separate." Surrender is not an act but an understanding.

  Rajneesh

  Understanding, Ego, Doers

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• Enlightenment is always through surrender, but surrender is achieved through intelligence. Only idiots cannot surrender. To surrender you need great intelligence. To see the point of surrender is the climax of insight; to see the point that you are not separate from existence is the highest that intelligence can give to you.

  Rajneesh

  Giving, Enlightenment, Needs

  Rajneesh (Bhagwan Shree), Swami Krishna Prem (1984). “From I to Q”

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• The man who craves disciples and wants followers is always more or less of a charlatan. The man of genuine worth and insight wants to be himself; and he wants others to be themselves, also.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Leadership, Men, Liberty

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• Perhaps a great love is never returned. Had it been given warmth and shelter by its counterpart in the Other, perhaps it would have been hindered from ever growing to maturity. It "gives" us nothing. But in its world of loneliness it leads us up to the summits with wide vistas - of great insights.

  Dag Hammarskjold

  Love, Loneliness, Maturity

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• Mysticism is: a. An advanced state of inner enlightenment. b. Union with Reality. c. A state of genuinely satisfying success. d. Insight into an entirely new world of living. e. An intuitive grasp of Truth, above and beyond intellectual reasoning. f. A personal experience, in which we are happy and healthy human beings.

  Vernon Howard

  Reality, Light, Healthy

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