Quotes about Clarity

It took me almost wanting to retire to realize that you need to ask for what you need. Everybody needs something different, but whatever it is you need, you need to ask for it and figure out how to get it.

Every time I make an assumption about someone who has hurt or disappointed me without confirming it, I believe a lie about this person in my head. This assumption is a misrepresentation of reality. Because I have not checked it out with the other person, it is very possible I am believing something untrue. It is also likely I will pass that false assumption around to others.

Simplicity The primary issue here is to remove distractions and remain free from attachments.

Faith means believing in advance what will only make sense in reverse.

Grace is everywhere, like lenses that go unnoticed because you are looking through them.

I don't want to be entertained. I don't want visuals or musicals. I don't want a vacation. I don't want to quit. I don't want sympathy. The cry of my heart is 'Just Give Me Jesus.'

As all of us are only too aware, the loud and frantic voices of the outer world easily drown out the small, still loving voice within.

Actually 'Soon' has more than the Left Behind series, but I really believe less is more.

Thinking seems to constitute our "default setting" rather than awareness.

Instead, we are living inside our own little narrative bubble of the moment, frequently misattributing cause and effect and therefore completely imprisoned in thoughts and emotions that are both inaccurate and misguided.

enlarge the pupil of the eye, so that the body with its attendant personality will no longer obstruct the view. Immortality is then experienced as a present fact...

Pay attention to where you are going because without meaning you might get nowhere.