Quotes about Insight

There is this quality, in things, of the right way seeming wrong at first.

What it comes down to, I believe, is that mentoring often involves telling people what they need to hear, rather than what they want to hear. When you are able to be humbly honest with someone about a situation with which you have personal experience—even if you risk angering or hurting that person—you are offering the most valuable gift of all.

You often find what you're looking for.

The range of what we think and do is limited by what we fail to notice. R. D. LAING

It is not that mindfulness is the "answer" to all life's problems. Rather, it is that all life's problems can be seen more clearly through the lens of a clear mind.

Even the tiniest manifestation of mindfulness in any moment might give rise to an intuition or insight that could be hugely transforming.

Meditation is the process by which we go about deepening our attention and awareness, refining them, and putting them to greater practical use in our lives.

Whoever sees Christ as a mirror of the Father's heart, actually walks through the world with new eyes.

For whatever else the religious life may be, it is the fountain of self-knowledge and disillusion, the safest form of psychoanalysis.

We learn not in the school, but in life.

Every experience in your life is being orchestrated to teach you something you need to know to move forward.

There is nothing so ridiculous but some philosopher has said it.