Quotes about Insight

Being informed is different from being formed, and the first is a common substitute for the second.

True masters deconstruct as well as reconstruct.

We become what we are willing to see.

JULIAN OF NORWICH AND THE FIRST

In Paul's story we find the archetypal spiritual pattern, wherein people move from what they thought they always knew to what they now fully recognize. The pattern reveals itself earlier in the Torah when Jacob "wakes from his sleep" on the rock at Bethel and says, in effect, "I found it, but it was here all the time! This is the very gate of heaven" (Genesis 28:16—17).

To stay on the surface of anything is invariably to miss its message—even the surface meaning of our sinfulness.

The proof that you are a Christian is that you can see Christ everywhere else.

Remember, mystery isn't something that you cannot understand—it is something that you can endlessly understand!

Remember, light is not so much what you directly see as that by which you see everything else.

What Richard does is more like what Jesus did when he spoke in parables: He takes you to see from one angle, and then backs up and brings you to see from another angle, and then another, and then another, until a whole new way of seeing begins to dawn on you.

Contemplation is really the change that changes everything—especially, first of all, the seer.

Of course, clergy cannot talk about a further journey if they have not gone on it themselves.