Quotes about Clarity

I began [blogging] because I have this handicap - I can't figure out my life or see God clearly unless I untangle my life again with words.

Neither life nor happiness can be achieved by the pursuit of irrational whims.

If the mind is clean, the body can take care of itself.

Like dropping through a hole in everything that the world said was important….Like discovering that nothing else mattered and all I needed was now….Temporarily removed from the game….Like floating weightless on the Dead Sea and looking up at an empty sky.

If you take care of your mind, you take care of the world.

When we are all mind, things can get rigid.

Our statements will be adequate if made with as much clearness as the matter allows.

I'm happy with getting older and getting more focused. I thought I was focused when I was young, but you're only as focused as experience will allow you to be.

I always prided myself on at least trying to be literate and use the right words, and if the audience didn't get it, then they could go home and look it up.

I find I need to put things into words before I can believe that they are entirely real.

One would not generally put garbage into the stomach, but too often one will put garbage into the mind.

The highest point of philosophy is to be both wise and simple; this is the angelic life.