Quotes about Clarity

Thomas Merton, the American monk, pointed out that we may spend our whole life climbing the ladder of success, only to find when we get to the top that our ladder is leaning against the wrong wall.

If you do not acquire good training in detachment, you may attach to all the wrong things.

The game is over once we see clearly because evil succeeds only by disguising itself as good, necessary, or helpful.

most people do not see things as they are, they see things as they are!

When you get your "Who am I?" question right, all the "What should I do?" questions tend to take care of themselves.

Thomas Merton, the American monk, pointed out that we may spend our whole life climbing the ladder of success, only to find when we get to the top that our ladder is leaning against the wrong wall. Most

Wisdom happily lives with mystery, doubt, and "unknowing," and in such living, ironically resolves that very mystery to some degree.

When you are present, you will know the Presence. It is that simple, and it is that hard.

Remember, light is not so much what you directly see as that by which you see everything else.

People who know who they are find it the easiest to know who they aren't.

First of all, you can only see and understand the earlier stages from the wider perspective of the later stages. This is why mature societies were meant to be led by elders, seniors, saints, and "the initiated." They alone are in a position to be true leaders in a society, or certainly in any spiritual organization. Without them, "the blind lead the blind

By the feminine principle I mean everything vulnerable, interior, powerless, subtle, personal, intimate, and relational. By the masculine principle I mean everything clear, rational, linear, ordered, in control, bounded, provable, and hard. Both the feminine and masculine are good, but they must balance each other.