Quotes about Insight

Meditation consists of generating three kinds of energy: mindfulness, concentration, and insight. These three energies give us power to nourish happiness and take care of our suffering. Suffering may be there. But with the energy of mindfulness, concentration, and insight, we can embrace and take care of that suffering and nourish happiness at the same time.

When you begin to see that your enemy is suffering, that is the beginning of insight. When you see in yourself the wish that the other person stop suffering, that is a sign of real love.

We should not try to escape from our pain. We should look at it directly. Looking at suffering deeply, we will have deep insight into its nature, and the path of transformation and healing will present itself to us.

The people who wrote down the Bible and the people who wrote down the Mahayana sutras were artists. They used images to express their insights.

As the blade of a sword cannot cut itself, so a thought cannot see itself.

Jon Gruden taught me the foundation of what I know about this game. Took me under his arm, taught me to see it from a big-picture perspective.

All thing I thought I knew; but now confess, the more I know I know, I know the less.

Discovery is for forward lookers. So, no one is born with great knowledge.

The Truth lies not in the Yes and not in the No, but in the knowledge and the beginning from which the Yes and the No arise.

The person who knows only his side of the argument knows little of that.

Nothing ever happens in the world that does not happen first inside human hearts.

There is a road from the eye to heart that does not go through the intellect.