Quotes about Clarity

Throw away your books; no longer distract yourself: it is not allowed.

When things lay claim to our trust—to lay them bare and see how pointless they are, to strip away the legend that encrusts them.

Harbour no such opinions as he holds who does thee violence, or as he would have thee hold. See things in all their naked reality.

Human understanding is fallible, and we see through a glass, darkly. Any religion is a shadow of God. But the shadows of God are not God.

How were we to know we were happy?

Not real can tell us about real.

As it says in the Bible, For now we through a glass, darkly; but then face to face. If it is face to face, there must be two looking.

It's old light, and there's not much of it. But it is enough to see by.

You don't understand much, he says. Why do you think I was lost in the impenetrable forest in the first place?

What could be done? We thought we had such problems. How were we to know we were happy?

your kiss no longer literature but fine print, a set of instructions.

I have to be more careful about my memories, I have to be sure they're my own and not the memories of other people telling me what I felt, how I acted, what I said: if the events are wrong the feelings I remember about them will be wrong too, I'll start inventing them and there will be no way of correcting it, the ones who could help are gone.