clarity of perception Quotes

This is the way of meditation: encountering the present in all its tremendous beauty, just being in the present. Inside, the mind stops. Outside, the world changes totally. It is no more the ordinary world you have known before. In fact, you have not known it at all. Your mind was distorting everything, your mind was creating fantasies. Your eyes were full of fantasies and you were looking though those fantasies. They never allowed you to see that which is. If the mind is gone, even for a moment, suddenly the whole existence explodes upon you.

The mind sees the world as a thing apart, And the soul makes the world at one with itself. A mirror scratched reflects no image— And this is the silence of wisdom.

An accurate, insightful view of current reality is as important as a clear vision.

Meditation is the eye that sees the Truth, the heart that feels the Truth and the soul that realises the Truth.

...dreams were dreams and reality was reality and she felt people were better off understanding the difference.

To be free, first of all, is to be free from wrong views that are the foundation of all kinds of suffering and fear and violence.

Humanity unceasingly strives forward from a lower, more partial and obscure understanding of life to one more general and more lucid.

He gives us the very quintessence of perception,-the clearly crystalized precipitation of all that is most precious in the ferment of impression after the impertinent and obtrusive particulars have evaporated from the memory.

When you enter deeply into this moment, you see the nature of reality, and this insight liberates you from suffering and confusion. Peace is already there to some extent: the problem is whether we know how to touch it.

Before practicing meditation, we see that mountains are mountains. When we start to practice, we see that mountains are no longer mountains. After practicing a while, we see that mountains are again mountains. Now the mountains are very free. Our mind is still with the mountains, but it is no longer bound to anything.

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

There is a poignancy in all things clear, In the stare of the deer, in the ring of a hammer in the morning. Seeing a bucket of perfectly lucid water We fall to imagining prodigious honesties.

Becoming "awake" involves seeing our confusion more clearly.

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