686 Quotes About Insight

We are looking for value, guidance, advice, inspiration; for someone to show us the way. When we find him, he is our hero

If you think you can't, you're wrong and right

In much of the rest of the world, rich people live in gated communities and drink bottled water. That's increasingly the case in Los Angeles where I come from. So that wealthy people in much of the world are insulated from the consequences of their actions."[Why Societies Collapse, ABC Local, July 17, 2003]

Every field of knowledge is different, but they are all connected. And they often rhyme. This means that something in the way you describe your process may give me a crucial insight or catalyze a new thought in me. This is how ideas form when we spark off each other.

The angers between women will not kill us if we can articulate them with precision, if we listen to the content of what is said with at least as much intensity as we defend ourselves agains the manner of saying. When we turn from anger we turn from insight, saying we will accept only the designs already known, deadly and safely familiar. I have tried to learn my anger's usefulness to me, as well as its limitations.

In short, we derive support for our preferred conclusions by listening to the words that we put in the mouths of people who have already been preselected for their willingness to say what we want to hear.

Adversity tries You Before it tries the rest

I want topeel away all the labelsI had once given to othersand place themupon the fabricof my own identity. They have reflected back to me,everything that I refuseto See in myself.

Reason and logic, fused with intuition and empathy, equals awakened consciousness and spirituality.