Quotes about Insight

But every point of view is a point of blindness: it incapacitates us for every other point of view. From a certain point of view, the room in which I write has no door. I turn around. Now I see the door, but the room has no window. I look up. From this point of view, the room has no floor. I look down; it has no ceiling. By avoiding particular points of view we are able to have an intuition of the whole. The ideal for a Christian is to become holy, a word which derives from "whole.

Obedience unlocks understanding.

Jesus doesn't divide the world up into the common and the sacred; he gives us eyes to see the sacred in the common.

He writes to his friends in Ephesus: I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened. When people ask you what the Bible is about, do you answer: It's about becoming more enlightened? Because that's how Paul puts it.

The question is: Why have these poems and prayers endured? Why, thousands of years later, do we still have them? And the answer you'll return to again and again is: They speak to our human experience.

Your ikigai is a work in progress because you are a work in progress. Knowing your ikigai, then, takes patience and insight, and courage, and honesty.

I believe the discussion itself is divine.

It is far more helpful to ask why the light isn't as bright as it could be.

Every poem is a momentary stay against the confusion of the world.

Heaven gives its glimpses only to those Not in position to look too close.

I have a mind myself and recognize Mind when I meet with it in any guise.

There ought to be a view around the world From such a mountain