Quotes about Insight

And when I read, and really I do not read so much, only a few authors, - a few men that I discovered by accident - I do this because they look at things in a broader, milder and more affectionate way than I do, and because they know life better, so that I can learn from them.

it has always been so much my desire to paint for those who don't know the artistic side of a painting.

There are often beams in our eye that we know not of. Let us therefore ask that our eye may become single, for then we ourselves shall become wholly single.

I'd wish that everyone had what I'm gradually beginning to acquire, the ability to read a book easily and quickly and to retain a strong impression of it. Reading books is like looking at paintings: without doubting, without hesitating, with self-assurance, one must find beautiful that which is beautiful.

It is looking at things for a long time that ripens you and gives you a deeper meaning.

Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover the seeds of truth.

Books are the mirrors of the soul.

When I don't know the answer to something, I write a book about it because it gives me a chance to explore it and go to some people who do have the answers.

Keep up the fires of thought, and all will go well.

To look at something as though we had never seen it before requires great courage.

Prayer is the act of seeing reality from God's point of view.

Christianity offers the further insight that true fulfillment comes, not through ego satisfaction, but through service to others.