Insight Quotes - Page 3

I've always been fascinated by weather.

It is the time to tremendous awakening toward “inquisitiveness” with cross-cultural sharing through technology and inner insights.

Philanthropy is. . . greatly overrated. A pain in the gut is not sympathy for the underprivileged, but the result of eating a green apple; the philanthropist gives to ease his own pain.

With proactive support and full engagement of top leaders, Change Management can become an enjoyable voyage to discover the new landscape of businesses.

Life in illusion is in a transient belief on insight without perspective

God’s strength will come to you when you faithfully read His Word.

Light inside of us can overcome, withstand or overshadow any darkness outside of us

Intelligence is composed mostly of imagination, insight, things that have nothing to do with reason.

The erruption of feelings & emotions that follows a near-death exerience, or any event that causes us to stop & look deeply at the reality of our lives, is ripe with the potential for insight & clarity.

When we practice metta, we open continuously to the truth of our actual experience, changing our relationship to life.

The organizational fit is the good balance of the fitting attitude and misfit thinking.

Dreams are what gives us insight into what may be if we have the get up and go to do it.

Intelligence and wisdom are certainly compatible, however they are rarely seen in each other’s company.

It may be necessary to stand on the outside of one is to see things clearly.

Your relationship with others is your relationship to yourself mirrored back to you.

Being rich or famous is the only profound thing that some people have ever said.

It is true that we choose our life, but it’s also true that we can choose at any moment to change our path.

Stand tall, my friends, when the fool comes around.

Some people have the license to sin: Soldiers, to kill; politicians, writers, priests, businessmen, married man and women, to lie; and married couples to have sex

It takes courage, motivation, discipline, and persistence to get out of comfort zone.

Sages see further with their eyes closed than scholars with their eyes open.

When everybody is planting apples a visionary plants oranges.

Consequences lost all purchase when they became mad. And desperation, when pressed beyond anguish, became narcotic.

Denna is a wild thing," I explained. "Like a hind or a summer storm. If a storm blows down your house, or breaks a tree, you don't say the storm was mean. It was cruel. It acted according to its nature and something unfortunately was hurt. The same is true of Denna.

The only people who really think they have seen something new are those whose experience is limited or whose vision can't penetrate beneath the surface of things. Because something is recent, they think it is new; they mistake now the for originality.

Some look at life, for their entire life, before they actually see.

Trust your brain to suggest a solution, then have the courage to follow through.

That which is not slightly distorted lacks sensible appeal; from which it follows that irregularity—that is to say, the unexpected, surprise and astonishment, are an essential part and characteristic of beauty.

People are wonderful one at a time. Each one of them has an entire hologram of the universe somewhere within them.

Whether the bear beats the wolf or the wolf beats the bear, the rabbit always loses.

People think that whatever comes out of the mouth of a wise man is the choicest gem, sometime it's utter stupidity and rubbish

Sit on the train tracks and really believe a train won’t come; lie in your house when it is inflamed and tell yourself that it really isn’t burning; go ahead, neglect all sort of reason and continue to tell yourself that what you believe is the irrefutable truth and the day will come when you are wakened by a piercing whistle and scorching flames.

Once you understand who you are, you can become more of what you are.

We can't expect a blind man to appreciate beautiful patterns or a deaf man to listen to bells and drums. And blindness and deafness are not confined to the body alone - the understanding has them, too.

Books, which we mistake for consolation, only add depth to our sorrow.

I knew everything! Yet, I'm still not perfect.

Wake up wild one! Your mind is a cageless bird waiting to fly to uncharted lands. Like the phoenix, you'll rise again with renewed vigor, clarity, compassion and insight.

Calm is the best revenge

There are patterns in everything, in the whole of Nature, from the way the stars turn in the heavens to the whorl of a shell or the petals of a flower and the way leaves arrange themselves about a twig. There are forces, hidden forces. If I can discover what they are, how they operate, I will have my hands upon the levers of creation and can work them myself.

Love is like a prison..difficult to breakout,painful to get caught and easier to get in.

Keeping hatred against someone is like helping him to torture you

Phædrus wrote a letter from India about a pilgrimage to holy Mount Kailas, the source of the Ganges and the abode of Shiva, high in the Himalayas, in the company of a holy man and his adherents.He never reached the mountain. After the third day he gave up, exhausted, and the pilgrimage went on without him. He said he had the physical strength but that physical strength wasn’t enough. He had the intellectual motivation but that wasn’t enough either. He didn’t think he had been arrogant but thought that he was undertaking the pilgrimage to broaden his experience, to gain understanding for himself. He was trying to use the mountain for his own purposes and the pilgrimage too. He regarded himself as the fixed entity, not the pilgrimage or the mountain, and thus wasn’t ready for it. He speculated that the other pilgrims, the ones who reached the mountain, probably sensed the holiness of the mountain so intensely that each footstep was an act of devotion, an act of submission to this holiness. The holiness of the mountain infused into their own spirits enabled them to endure far more than anything he, with his greater physical strength, could take.

Marijuana enhances our mind in a way that enables us to take a different perspective from 'high up', to see and evaluate our own lives and the lives of others in a privileged way. Maybe this euphoric and elevating feeling of the ability to step outsidethe box and to look at life’s patterns from this high perspective is the inspiration behind the slang term “high” itself.

People who are not blessed with the ability to make others laugh compensate for that by saying (or trying to say) things that are profound.

I am afraid that our eyes are bigger than our stomachs, and that we have more curiosity than understanding. We grasp at everything, but catch nothing except wind.

The greatest wisdom is to be happy

Vision is the foresight or forecast or insight into the future. Vision is the picture of one's destiny or accomplishment, or simply what a person is meant to do or become.

Too often, it is only love that makes us engaged enough, alert enough, alive enough to see

You learn who you are by unlearning who they taught you to be.

It's not what we can do that makes us great, but what we can do but don't which make us great

Your strength will be found when you stop struggling with yourself, instead of thinking everyone is a struggle worth overcoming. Every obstacle in life is a lesson that teaches us, not others.

The cure is as simple as this: Live your words and live your belief system.

Everyone is a fuckin' Napoleon.

It takes a person of great care and insight to watch for any abnormality in the green grass even while it grows abundantly and healthily.

Among the problems with shame was that it in fact did not make you shorter or quieter or less visible. You just felt like you were.

Understanding requires insight. Insight must be anchored.

But before I can live with other folks I've got to live with myself.

I was a sinner. I knew that without a doubt. But I was not alone. And the night was the accomplice of us all.

Failure is information encased in a shell of pain.

There are no good girls gone wrong - just bad girls found out