Quotes about Insight

A writer is someone on whom nothing is lost

And I'd stand there trying to see it, the way you try to remember a dream, where you squint and it's right there on the tip of your psychic tongue but you can't get it back. The image is gone. That is one of the worst feelings I can think of, to have had a wonderful moment or insight or vision or phrase, to know you had it, and then to lose it.

Augustine's insight that to search for God is to have found God is deeply profound, because the belief we hold in the existence of another world opens space within us, and around us, which creates a more radiant reality. A radiance is inside us, just as it is visible outside us, and to seek it is maybe to catch a glimpse from time to time of a light within, of a candle at the window of our heart, of a home somewhere inside.

In the rabbinical tradition, there is great insight in the notion that when we see suffering, we remember that this is only the sixth day. We're not done here. The good news is that God isn't, either. God is searching with us for a cure for cancer. God rejoiced at the cure for smallpox.

The right information brings knowledge. And knowledge is power. Sharing it is empowerment.

Seeing clearly means that you're smart enough to know when a project is doomed, or brave enough to persevere when your colleagues are fleeing for the hills. Abandoning your worldview in order to try on someone else's is the first step in being able to see things as they are.

Your most generous and insightful work needs help finding the people it's meant to serve. And your most successful work will spread because you designed it to.

My ears had heard of you but now my eyes have seen you" (Job 42:5).

The book, Max on Life, is really kind of a second chance to answer these questions.

Everyone has their own way of learning.

When we have great treasures before us, we can never see them.

He also knows the importance of intuition.