686 Quotes About Insight

Looking is only for those who cannot see.

Im happy to sit and be an ear to listen when the world gets wild but Id much prefer to watch the ways your eyes in sparkle in the midst of convincing me why you love the things you do. It gives me hope that someone else out there feels everything with this much depth and has the willingness to create a beautiful life from it.

Random thought fills the streambed, cascading with care and spilling over the flood plain until bifurcation forces it to arc and fork into a single, determined stream.

We must clean the lens of our hearts to see the state of our souls. However, too often the former is too dirty to even know that the latter exists.

The function of a university is to teach a [person] how to drink tea, not because anything is important, but because it is usual to drink tea, or for that matter anything else under the sun. And whatever you do, every act, however small, can teach you everything, provided you see who is acting.”― Thomas Merton, Thomas Merton On Prayer

Experience is hard to acquire. Only the wise acquire it

Whatever you have learned, Harry, you must rememberThat there is always more: we cannot rest in beingThe impatient spectators of malice or stupidity.We must try to penetrate the other private worldsOf make-believe and fear. To rest in our own sufferingIs evasion of suffering. We must learn to suffer more.

A creative person is one who has insight, who can see things nobody else has ever seen before, who hears things that nobody has heard before—then there is creativity.

There is nothing wrong in finding the shortcomings of your father, if you want to be a better father for your son!