Quotes about Insight
It was a great surprise to me when I discovered that most of the ugliness I saw in others, was but a reflection of my own nature.
— Napoleon Hill
It pays to know how to purchase knowledge.
— Napoleon Hill
Through the aid of the sixth sense, you will be warned of impending dangers in time to avoid them, and notified of opportunities in time to embrace them.
— Napoleon Hill
To know the laws is not to memorize their letter but to grasp their full force and meaning.
— Cicero
Suffering has causes which can be illuminated in order to be removed
— Thich Nhat Hanh
Don't wait for tomorrow. Tomorrow may be too late. If we know how to live according the insight of impermanence, we will not make many mistakes. We can be happy right now. We can love our beloved, care for her, and make her happy today. And we won't run toward the future, losing our life, which is available only in the present moment.
— Thich Nhat Hanh
The more you understand, the more you love; the more you love, the more you understand.
— Thich Nhat Hanh
Cultivating a strong training in meditation and mindfulness is not an opiate to escape what's going on but a way for us to truly still the mind and look deeply, in order to see ourselves and the world clearly.
— Thich Nhat Hanh
If you can recognize and accept your pain without running away from it, you will discover that although pain is there, joy can also be there at the same time. Some say that suffering is only an illusion or that to live wisely we have to "transcend" both suffering and joy. I say the opposite. The way to suffer well and be happy is to stay in touch with what is actually going on; in doing so, you will gain liberating insights into the true nature of suffering and of joy.
— Thich Nhat Hanh
We can learn many practices to lessen our sadness and our suffering, but the cream of enlightened wisdom is the insight of no birth, no death.
— Thich Nhat Hanh
Concentration, samadhi in Sanskrit, is a powerful force that you can generate to make a breakthrough, to see clearly what is there and understand its true nature.
— Thich Nhat Hanh
The raft is used to cross the river. It isn't to be carried around on your shoulders. The finger which points at the moon isn't the moon itself.
— Thich Nhat Hanh