Quotes about Insight

And who understands? Not me, because if I did I would forgive it all.

Simone Weil was absolutely right- beauty and affliction are the only two things that can pierce our hearts. Because this is so true, we must have a measure of beauty in our lives proportionate to our affliction. No more. Much more. Is this not God's prescription for us? Just take a look around.

That is exactly what we need. Eyes to see. Isn't that what Jesus offered us—clarity? Recovery of sight for the blind (Luke 4:18)? We need clarity and we need it badly. A simple prayer rises from my heart: Jesus, take away the fog and the clouds and the veil, and help me to see... give me eyes to really see.

Thus we might not know we have a sage at the table, for he will remain silent while the "experts" prattle on and on.

Listen to your own heart and the hearts of the women you know. What is it that a woman wants? What does she dream of?

You will not think clearly about your life until you think mythically. Until you see with the eyes of your heart.

The nearest anyone can come to finding himself at any given age is to find a story that somehow tells him about himself.

The greater our knowledge increases the greater our ignorance unfolds.

Nothing ever becomes real till experienced — even a proverb is no proverb until your life has illustrated it

Paul and I know each other on a lot of different levels that very few people know about.

They hate you if you're clever and they despise a fool.

Only by trying on other people's clothes do we find what size we are.